...I won't have to get my drivers license renewed until 2018.

So, I had to go to the mighty DMV today. I needed to get my license renewed. They let these things go for 8 years now. Nice to know that as long as I don't lose it, I wont have to go back until 2018. I will have to go again to get the bike titled and plated. That's easy stuff.

I'm actually not one to complain about the DMV. They changed how their system works so that it runs MUCH faster. They make you go to an information window first. You tell them why they are there, then they give you ALL the forms you need to fill out and a number. Then, you fill them out and wait for the number to be called.

It's a lot better than 20 years ago when I got my license. I must have been in line for hours just to find out I needed to fill out something and get back in line.

...I am one step closer to the weekend.

I have a lot going on this weekend. Movie and dinner along with a housewarming is tonight. Tomorrow I have house things to work on. Sunday is the yearly cookout at Rob's. And Monday is just a lazy day with my lady.

...I know the one guy I never want to make angry...EVER (Interview with Chris DeMarcus of Stiff Valentine - WTII Minifest II hype #6)

Stiff Valentine

Stiff Valentine from Vancouver is one of the recently signed bands on WTII Records. Their latest release "America Bleeding" is out now. I had a chance to do some correspondence with Chris DeMarcus and ask him about SV, Deathproof, audio engineering and battles with sea creatures and large mammals. If that doesn't make you want to read this interview, you're dead inside.


Falken: Thanks for agreeing to do this, I know we've met in the past. We had a conversation about this a few months ago. You were doing sound for 16 Volt when they were touring with Left Spine Down and Chemlab.

...I didn't fail this semester.

Well, another semester has gone by. The bad: I ended up having to take less than an A for the first time in my college corsework. The good: I didn't fail. This was a bitch of a semester. See that first class there. The one with the B+. I worked harder on that class than anything else I've worked on before and I still managed to squeak out a good grade. I dealt with the following: group work, group members not showing up, getting everyone together, figuring out we needed to use Google docs to collaborate, times and schedules for everyone, work, home, life in general. All of that in a class that decided there was weekly group work and a term group project.

But, I conquered the class. I won. That B+ is nothing to sneeze at. There were other groups that I am sure did not do as well.

...she's found a new home.

Pictures will be up soon, but I have added another motorcycle to the garage.

I stuck with Kawasaki, this time it's a 1979 KZ650D-SR. So, It's a bigger engine and has already started going through the paces of being turned in to a sportier bike.

She's got a fairing on it that needs to be brought back a bit. a really bad multi color paint job, and handlebars that need to go away.

Lucky for me I have a set of clubman z bars at the house ready to go. This Saturday I am picking up the paint for the bike, and it's going to be a very nice matte black all slick and ready to roll. I'm still toying with getting header wrap on it. I'm not sure if I want to do that this weekend. The pipes are already black and the 1:40 minute drive from Oconomowoc to Racine really didn't heat up my legs that much. So it might just stay the way it is for now.