This week has been fairly drab for most things concerning my job. I continually look forward to quitting time at the office so I can go home to hang out with Amy, maybe work on some music, fund raising, or other projects, or even go out to enjoy the beautiful weather we've been having. Just the other day Amy and I had a great time walking to St. Edwards Park and hiking around in there for a few hours round-trip.
The nerd in me was excited to see the entire Sun Java training suite arrive to the office. I am still interested in furthering my knowledge and education in programming (but I most certainly do NOT want to be a full time paid programmer).
The funny thing is: the more-than-three-thousand dollars we spent on the suite wasn't truly *worth* it. The package is an in-house print job on crappy paper with what looks like a recycled CD/DVD multi-volume case. The discs themselves are CD-ROMs that, when flipped over, reveal green-back burned copies. C'mon.. I know we're paying for the content on the discs, but couldn't we at least have something that looks a bit more official?
Project work is going to finally take off-- it is a bit late in the season to really be starting on some of the massive things I am working on, but such is life. Between legal working out details on contracts with vendors, to senior management dragging their feet or thinking they are giving constructive feedback/suggestions: it has been a pain of a season so far. T-Minus 5 months to retail season... -_-
Enough about work.. I rarely talk about it here and I prefer to keep it that way!
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I made incredible headway on, what I think is, an incredible track. I managed to sit down, assemble my instruments, do some programming, and write lyrics out along with my composition. The pairing is awesome. The song is very dark yet contains a beat with some great momentum to it. If I had to pick something the song sounded like: "Massive Attack" is the most appropriate label.
A sample will undoubtedly be posted to the Sliptide Fan Club. I hope to do that this weekend.
When I had finished writing and composing, I tried my hand at recording the vocals. After 8 takes I came *close* to what I had envisioned for the song, but I have much practice to do to improve my singing ability. I have discovered that I am capable, but having zero experience singing means that you can hear a lot of terrible mistakes. I'm not aiming to be a professional, glossy, studio quality vocalist here-- but I definitely want to be presentable, enjoyable, and be able to capture the emotion and instill a level of pathos in my music.
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City Shadows vol.1 is another step closer to being released online. Another pass at mixing should nab some of the oversights I made on the previous attempt (very minor things).
Well of Souls still needs 2 tracks. There are several candidates (starts to projects) that may bloom into full fledged additions to the album. "Eloquence" was the last full song to be added, for a track total of nine (goal is 11-12, since there is at least 1 "intro" track of < 2 minutes).
Alrighty, I should be productive for the jobby job today. I'm leaving early to head out to the company picnic then heading back over to Seattle for a SAM volunteer appreciation event. Wee! Busy day!
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