My ramblings in an interconnected abyss..

New Car and New Job! I found a new job as IT phone support for Verizon Business in Lewisville, TX. It’s much more relaxed environment than Fry’s and a step in the right direction for working in IT. It also pays much better than Fry’s. I decided to test drive a few cars to replace my 13 year old honda accord. I wanted a small european car that was fun to drive and got good gas mileage. I drove a Jetta, Fiat 500, and a Mini Cooper S. The Fiat 500 was a fun car, small, agile and “cute”. Then I test drove the Mini Cooper S at  Carmax. I knew after taking off, the turbo kicks in and you’re hooked. So I worked everything out and got the extended warranty and drove home in a 2007 Mini Cooper S. This car is pretty decked out for the price, you get a keyless fob and push start, 6-speed transmission, 168HP turbo, 32mpg, alloy rims, sunroof, nice sound system. I’m driving about 80 miles a day to work so this makes the drive much more fun. I’m just glad I got out of retail and into a job I can appreciate.

I wish @twitter could #getmeajob

Hayley on the cover of Cosmo! http://t.co/8dmJK2l via @paramore this made my day :-)

#uknoyoughettowhen you take the ketchup packets from fast food places and you have a stash of hot sauce packets

RT @refactoritus: I forgot how hot Veronica Belmont is :3 #iheartgeekgirls

RT @Gizmodo: Watch the real life Up! House fly away on video. This is so, so unreal: http://t.co/j7Di8t8

This is my first proper post in a while. Not much has been going on. Still working full time trying to pay off my education/mistakes and enjoying life. Anyway the only thing notable is my new drum set. I have been drumming on and off since I was a kid, my first junior set, then got a cheap prim ere kit, then a Roland TD-3 which I sold when I moved back to Texas. I decided electronics are nice but not the same feel and they end up being about as inconvenient to lug around because of the amp.

So my income tax came in and I’ve been itching to play drums again. A while ago i got to sit in for a drummer who had a Gretsch kit and since then i liked the sound and feel of Gretsch kits. Looking around i found out the price gap between a beginner kit and pro kit was quite a bit. For gretsch it was the same. I also learned that there is a difference in qualities and types of wood used in drum shells. Luckily, when I went to Mr. E’s to see if they had kits the test that guitar center didn’t have, i found a decent Gretsch catalina maple 6-piece kit for a reasonable price. I also didn’t know much about cymbals and the differences in sounds, I figured they all sound the same. Obviously I’m wrong, I did find a reasonably priced pack of Sabian X20 cymbals they have the nice crisp sound I wanted in a cymbal. Overall it sounds pretty good. It has stock heads and isn’t tuned so that part sounds not so good. I’ll have to do a lot of tweaking before I’m happy but just the shiny hardware cymbals and red veneer I’m amazed.

A Texas winter haiku: You can’t drive on ice/ superbowl 45 hah/ stay home and watch it

I want this clock. Might remake something like this with LED’s

I’m tweeting from my new #iPad