So Dylan and I are still not working. gaaaaahhhhhh
It's starting to get to me but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Supposedly tuesday I'll be back at work. Dylan has a few leads on new employment but they have yet to turn anything.
In the meanwhile we've been playing a lot of music and taking miniature trips here and there. Here's some photos of our recent activities.
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Stay classy everyone!
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Springtime!
Spring has sprung! We made it through the winter unscathed and have been enjoying the beautiful weather in shorts and tshirts everyday for the past week. A recap of the past few months that I've neglected.
We worked through the very wet yet mild winter. Dylan continuing his construction job in west seattle everyday that started giving him lizard hands. He was laid off recently due to the near completion of the building. He enjoyed being a crane rigger though he's looking for something better paying with less time soaking in the rain.
I'm working for Brian as a home remodeler. Done a fair amount of assorted jobs but painting still makes me the happiest. Haven't been doing a ton of that lately but I know I'm good at it. Just finished up a house not far from us where we knocked out a wall and raised the ceiling to match the roof. I've got before pictures of that and I'll upload em as soon as I've got the finished after pictures.
Dylan and I signed up with a band that I quit after three practices and the band feel apart about a week after that. However out of that rubble emerged a friendship with Ben. Ben was a violinist in the first group and after jamming with him for a moment when everyone else was out of the room he whispers "regardless of what happens with this group do you guys want to throw something together with the three of us?" we agree and after the group fell apart we started meeting him. He's also a tech nerd programmer and is a very hard worker. Making progress with that but starting from scratch so it's very slow going.
Dylan's also playing with his group Take Powell. I got to meet Razz and Kevin, violinist and guitarist respectively. Both very cool people and I love talking shop with them about music. Razz and I sat and brainstormed for half an hour on potential for a new form of violin bow for electric violins that wouldn't create such grinding sounds when played.
I rented out a practice space that Take Powell practices in so Kevin (Different Kevin from the Take Powell Kevin) and I can get back to playing. Kevin was the guitarist in the 3 piece I was playing with in Tacoma last year. I'm SUPER excited for that.
Exciting events that happened!
Went on an okcupid date with a girl named Jessi and her roommate Alix to learn that Jessi is from Jersey city and the two of them live right across the street from us! They're both artists and have been pushing me to get my art online and start applying to grants and residencies. They also feed me SUPER delicious well made food on a regular basis now.
We went up to Snoqualmie with Larry (The MAN of Seattle) and Ben for a day of very wet snowboarding. It was great and well worth it. Dylan and I spent the night before driving around to grocery store parking lots to buy snow gear out of people's cars off craigslist. That was fun too.
I went to Emerald City Comic Con and bought a hundred and fifty dollars worth of comics. Totally worth it. Met a lot of my heroes there and made some new heroes.
We saw Darwin Deez (seen him four times, have gotten four hugs!) and Electric Six play back to back! Met some really cool people at those shows that I hope make awesome friendships.
We also canceled the internet in our apartment and have to go to the library to check our emails every other day. This has already proven to get us better sleep hours and kept us more focused on our individual projects. Dylan doing music, me throwing an art portfolio together. So far it's going great.
We worked through the very wet yet mild winter. Dylan continuing his construction job in west seattle everyday that started giving him lizard hands. He was laid off recently due to the near completion of the building. He enjoyed being a crane rigger though he's looking for something better paying with less time soaking in the rain.
I'm working for Brian as a home remodeler. Done a fair amount of assorted jobs but painting still makes me the happiest. Haven't been doing a ton of that lately but I know I'm good at it. Just finished up a house not far from us where we knocked out a wall and raised the ceiling to match the roof. I've got before pictures of that and I'll upload em as soon as I've got the finished after pictures.
Dylan and I signed up with a band that I quit after three practices and the band feel apart about a week after that. However out of that rubble emerged a friendship with Ben. Ben was a violinist in the first group and after jamming with him for a moment when everyone else was out of the room he whispers "regardless of what happens with this group do you guys want to throw something together with the three of us?" we agree and after the group fell apart we started meeting him. He's also a tech nerd programmer and is a very hard worker. Making progress with that but starting from scratch so it's very slow going.
Dylan's also playing with his group Take Powell. I got to meet Razz and Kevin, violinist and guitarist respectively. Both very cool people and I love talking shop with them about music. Razz and I sat and brainstormed for half an hour on potential for a new form of violin bow for electric violins that wouldn't create such grinding sounds when played.
I rented out a practice space that Take Powell practices in so Kevin (Different Kevin from the Take Powell Kevin) and I can get back to playing. Kevin was the guitarist in the 3 piece I was playing with in Tacoma last year. I'm SUPER excited for that.
Exciting events that happened!
Went on an okcupid date with a girl named Jessi and her roommate Alix to learn that Jessi is from Jersey city and the two of them live right across the street from us! They're both artists and have been pushing me to get my art online and start applying to grants and residencies. They also feed me SUPER delicious well made food on a regular basis now.
We went up to Snoqualmie with Larry (The MAN of Seattle) and Ben for a day of very wet snowboarding. It was great and well worth it. Dylan and I spent the night before driving around to grocery store parking lots to buy snow gear out of people's cars off craigslist. That was fun too.
I went to Emerald City Comic Con and bought a hundred and fifty dollars worth of comics. Totally worth it. Met a lot of my heroes there and made some new heroes.
We saw Darwin Deez (seen him four times, have gotten four hugs!) and Electric Six play back to back! Met some really cool people at those shows that I hope make awesome friendships.
We also canceled the internet in our apartment and have to go to the library to check our emails every other day. This has already proven to get us better sleep hours and kept us more focused on our individual projects. Dylan doing music, me throwing an art portfolio together. So far it's going great.
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