I am Austindude

People who try to figure things out and work on things themselves, deserve major props. Being in my own place for the first time, I am getting to figure out how to install things and work on stuff and it’s fun, man. My bathroom drawers and cabinets were pretty plain and I didn’t like scraping my knuckles on the counter every time I went to open the drawer, so I installed some drawer-pulls this weekend.

Before: After:

Close-up:

Somewhere I read that if you post your to-do lists for all the world to see, you’ll actually be more motivated to get things done and cross them off your list. So here’s an experiment to see how well that really works, yo.

Weekend to-do list:

• Bring the RX-8 into Mazda to have them look at it
• Clean the house
• Deposit check
• Go through papers on dining room table
• Grocery Shopping (ugh)
• Install bathroom drawer and cabinet pulls
• Pick up bulb for kitchen track lighting at Home Depot
• Relax like a mofo
• Setup weight set in garage (I unboxed it, but need to get a pair of pliers and a wrench at Home Depot)
• Work on group presentation for a few hours

Today, I parted with my drum set but my plan is to get an electronic drum pad and/or keyboard, or maybe even a set of turntables and mixer again to create musical bliss. Take a peek at this video. It’s pure sweetness.

A few years ago while reading the ads in the back of Popular Science magazine I came across this cool little thing called an Ecosphere, which is an all-enclosed, self-sustaining, ecosystem. There’s algae, little shrimp and bacteria that all eat off of each other. The system can last up to 10 years!! I knew I had to get one - I never pass up an opportunity to be a nerd.

Years went by, and I forgot about it. Late last year, as I was looking at various sites for cool stuff for the casa, I found this hand hook sculpture by Harry Allen, and WHAM my idea was born! Why not create an unbelievable way to show off the Ecosphere? That’s what I did. I bought an Ecosphere and ordered the hand sculpture, and low and behold this is what a manifested vision looks like:

I seemed to have lost my focus, my way and my creativity. This blog is designed to help me nurture those traits back to their former glory. Are your fingers crossed? Mine sure are. Hey, see that photo at the top of the blog - yeah that’s MINE. I took it in Seaside, Oregon a few years ago. That was pre-Digital Rebel and I used Paint Shop Pro to digitally turn it black-and-white. I plan on taking more photos soon, and adding a link on the blog to my photography, which I’m certain you’ll enjoy.

Life is great! I have a bad ass domain, my own condo, good health, a great job, a couple of awesome gatos, am working toward finishing my degree with the light-at-the-end near, and have pretty much everything I need and want right now. But man, I do need to get out more often and hang with friends and get some face-to-face time with real people haha. My social contact is severly inhibited by my anti-social tendancies. It’s time I work on that, and I am not saying that just for the sake of saying it, to appease myself. I fucking mean it.

So stick around, and make a new friend. I’ve listed a bunch of categories with links I frequent pretty much on a daily-basis, to the right there. Check ‘em out and start filling up my comment boxes, yo.