Shelves, Casios, and Love, Actually

This morning I planned on assembling the metal shelf we got yesterday at Home Depot, but online business (job searching, regular daily web surfing) got the better of me. Plus I had a follow-up eye doctor appointment at 11:45, effectively cutting my morning short.

At least everything's okay with the eyes (still blind as a bat but with my new and comfy contacts, it's all good) and after paying a few bills at Pearlridge Mall, I headed over to see my dad at my parents place.

Along with picking up my mail and a few errant CDs lying around in my old room, I found my 15-year-old Casio keyboard in a far, dark corner of my old closet. I had wanted to hook it up to my new computer through GarageBand so I could fiddle with the program and attempt to make music.

I wanted to get back home and maybe put together the metal shelving, but traffic was such a bitch that I decided to wait it out at Borders. I figured that by the time I got home, I would have to leave again within an hour to pick up Jessica from work. Might as well stay in town so I don't have to sit through traffic, and plus I had to take a friggin' piss real bad.

I talked to my wife earlier in the day and she said she was in the mood for Chinese food tonight, as well as the movie "Love Actually." Don't know where that last one came from, but that's cool; we had both wanted to catch it at the theaters, so we rented it at Blockbuster. Overall it was okay; some parts were overly sappy, but most of it was enjoyable.

Maybe I'll post a snippet of one of the many half-finished GarageBand songs I've been working on. Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised that my ratty old Casio worked as a MIDI controller (with the cheap addition of a MIDI interface cable) and it brought back memories of when I was a budding piano/keyboard player/producer helping a couple of college buddies make a demo using a 4-track 1/2" Otari tape deck at the college radio station I worked at. Ah, those were the days.

Oh, and yeah: I did manage to put together the metal shelves with Jessica's help after watching the movie. It looks nice.