it’s snowing

I woke up this morn­ing to find my car cov­ered in “soap opera snow.” Living in Rochester I’ve gotten well aquainted with many of the var­i­ous forms of snow out there. Soap opera snow is a light, fluffy, “cute” snow. It’s like the pastic/soap flakes they use on most soap operas or tv shows. It doesn’t pack and it brushes right off of your car (which is always a plus when you don’t want to spend much time shov­el­ing out for work). Unfor­tu­nately it has been fol­lowed by freez­ing rain, which means every­thing will have a nice layer of ice over it by the end of the day. A car cover with what seems like a hard candy shell just isn’t fun when you’re trying to open the door or see out the windsheild.

I also don’t under­stand Roches­te­ri­ans and snow. Why, once a flake falls, does every­one forget how to drive in this area? They’ve lived with snow all thier lives! It isn’t new or unex­pected. But once that first bit of snow hits the ground natives seem to loose all con­trol of their cars. Why not just slow down and take it easy??!! Ohhh no, it’s either “Yee Haa, let’s kick in the 4 wheel drive and speed up” or “my car has shifted into snow mode and the gas and break have switched places….” Sigh.

Oh, I’ve added a new site fea­ture in the left column. From time to time I’ll post an MP3 de jour. I can’t always promise they’ll be good, but they will def­i­nitely all be 100% fun! So check it out! More good­ness will be coming soon!

wasn’t there some guy who occa­sion­ally updated this blog?

Well, the new site is mostly up. I’m still trying to figure out how to get PHP run­ning here so I can use the user feed­back Heather sent me. I also didn’t real­ize that when I for­mat­ted my com­puter late last year I didn’t rein­stall Dreamweaver or Home­site. So edit­ing the layout the page has been a pain (espe­cially because I want to revamp it to take advan­tage of the extra disk space I now have). I haven’t really touched HTML is about a year so trying to make small changes to the layout has been a con­stant frus­tra­tion. But that’s what this week­end can be for I guess.

Oth­er­wise life has been pretty good. The apart­ment is cleaner than usual. The last two rehearsals for the Ives pro­duc­tion went really well. I’ve got one heck of a skinned knuckle from work­ing a punch­ing bag, which is good believe it or not. I’ve also man­aged to get up early the last couple of days to prac­tice some kung fu before work. If I can manage to keep that up it will be a major coup for me!

Mardi Gras party is next week­end and things are start­ing to pull together for that as well. My sorta new look is in place (more on that in a future blog). And I’ve been hang­ing out on the top of Kodak Tower. Again, more on that in the near future. That’s it for now… I have to order some beads for the party!

wak​ing-​dream.com is now up and running!

I had expected by today to be at the new URL. Unfor­tun­tately due to poor form logic and UI I missed the button for “free hosting” so I have to call their sales office tomor­row and square things with them.

I do have my new glasses and my new ‘do. Supris­ingly, or not so, I don’t look all that dif­fer­ent. I know a lot of people who are going to be dis­a­pointed. The hair­dresser, heav­ily rec­om­mended by Jenny, thought that I looked good with longer hair and worked to clean up what I had rather than take a lot off. She even kept it longer than I had planned. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an improve­ment. Just not what I expected or what most people did for that matter. Some days I just feel boring.

hiatus

Blog’s going to be down for up to a couple days. But like a Pheonix I’m plan­ning to rise from the ashes at a new URL. Yup, book­mark Wak​ing-​Dream.com. Which is all good as I’ll be able to do all the stuff there that I couldn’t do at this Road Runner due to a number of restric­tions. See you soon…

matt in the morning

We were up at 6.00am this morn­ing. Four hours of sleep at best. Bleary eyed we headed out to RIT and a morn­ing of rene­gade radio. Glenn, my brother, was the GM of WITR and was look­ing to re-​live some mem­o­ries. So he and I tag teamed the 7-00am to 9.00am shift. This was my first time doing a music shift. I have been on national radio a number of times talk­ing about Dig­i­tal Cam­eras, but like every­one, I’ve always wanted to do a leetle DJin’. I have a lot more respect for folks who can do a smooth mike break now…

Glenn has been up in Rah-​cha-​cha since Sat­ur­day. We’ve had a lot of fun so far. Mainly eating our way through town as Glenn demanded to get his fill of local food before he headed back. He’s head­ing back at 6.30 today :-(.

Oh, new look 2001 progress is under way. Per­haps as soon as Wednes­day there might be a “new me” hang­ing around.

ozzy’s playin’ on MP3… I’m ready to blog

yeah, ozzy-​bite-​the-​head-​off-​live-​bats-​moon-​the-​audience-​self-​medicating-​osborne is play­ing right now (I’ve got pretty eclec­tic music tastes). My com­puter at work has been packed with over 30+ hours of MP3 good­ness. So on days like today I just set the player on random and never know what’s going to pop up next (its “Road to Nowhere” btw).

Any hoo, for some reason the last update didn’t make it to the site (even though blog­ger is show­ing that it pub­lished the site… weird huh?). Hope­fully it’ll push this time. Check down below for it.

Things are start­ing to come together on a bunch of projects. Scott (my down­stairs house­mate) and I are in full Mardi Gras swing. I’m not sure where we’re going to fit all these people. Things with the Exact The­atre Com­pany are start­ing to pick up. I’ve all but nailed down the first of two per­for­mance spaces and will be land­ing (Guns and Roses Novem­ber Rain… hmm Mister WinAmp is in the big hair sta­dium hard rock mood today) the other next week. Even though we still have to steal space from RIT, rehearsals are going well. Thank­fully steps are being taken to legit­imize our rela­tion­ship with them.

Mar­tial Arts… well, I had a frus­trat­ing night yes­ter­day. I was zoning for most of the evening. And I seem to have 42 little, com­pound­ing prob­lems with every­thing I do. So need­less to say I’m feel­ing like a klutz right now. A klutz that can bang out a lot of pushups, but a klutz none the less. The good news is that I’ve sched­uled a lot more time at home for prac­tic­ing. That should help a lot. And I’ve gone through these peri­ods before.

My brother Glenn is flying up from Raleigh NC to visit me on Sat­ur­day. I’m pretty psy­ched about that. But I just wish I had more down time (some­thing I haven’t had since Christ­mas). I mean I still have Christ­mas presents to wrap and mail. :-P Bleh! And the apart­ment could really use some tiding up. But that’s always the case.