Review: The Atomic Bitchwax — Force Field

It’s great to hear new hard rock.  Parts Queens of the Stone Age and parts Foo Fighters, The Atomic Bitchwax rock out some catchy hard rock tunes.  I can’t say I’ve been a long-term fan of these guys.  I listened to some of their early stuff that didn’t stick with me.  This album will be in heavy rotation for a while as it is more hard rock than their previous efforts.

Recommended for any fans of QoTSA, Foo Fighters or even bands like Monster Magnet.

Creative Frustration

I’ve been increasingly frustrated lately with my inability to find a creative outlet.  The desire is there… I want to write, I want to be creative… but the ability just isn’t there.

I don’t think this was a big problem in the past since I was able to be creative in my developmental endeavors.  Coming up with solutions to complex technical issues and developing tools to assist in the process was a creative outlet.  My new job, however, is lacking this creativity.  Not that I dislike my current job, I actually like it quite a bit, I think I am just now having to find that creative outlet in other areas… and it has been a struggle.

One other possibility is that I haven’t been attending school the past year.  For quite some time I was taking a class or two at a time.  The assignments allowed for some level of creative output.  I’ve been out of school mode for over a year now, so maybe it’s a combination of these two items.

Sorry Dear… Couldn’t Do It

After working for about 2 months with the theme that my wife considers “acceptably un-boring”, I just can’t do it any longer.  It was driving me nuts… too many moving parts.  I like simple and clean, maybe because I’m simple.

The new theme Librio is clean, neat and a soothing color combination allowing for easy reading and navigation.  The new theme is me… boring and all.

Let it snow… let it snow… let it snow…

We awoke to a considerable amount of snow this morning (for South Jersey anyway).  While the kids have shown no interest in playing in it, it is quite beautiful.

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It was very light and easy to shovel, but it is getting pretty cold out.  The kid’s school was cancelled, so I stayed home.

Daisy really liked playing in the snow… Geddy wasn’t nearly as enthusiastic.  I will post video when it is done converting.  I’m not sure if Geddy was afraid of the snow or the video camera, you just never know with him.

Horrible Sinus Infection

What a horrible week it has been.  It just started out with some headaches and general stuffiness and by the end of the week, I couldn’t eat for 3 days due to the intense pain in my teeth and upper jaw.

Today was the first that I’ve been able to eat in the past 4 days… I’ve been sure not to push it, but it seems as though the anti-biotic is finally working.  I never knew a sinus infection could be so debilitating.

Additional Music Library Details

Now that I’m switching over to MediaMonkey as my media manager, I have some cool new reporting tools.  I’ve decided to post a track listing spreadsheet.  This lists all of the tracks that I have (all 37,000+ of them), it will help me in determining some duplicates that I have as well as some holes in the collection.  I’m sure that I’ve missed a few CDs when ripping to the library, so this will help point this out.

Music Library Spreadsheet

New Theme

Upon receiving some constructive criticism of my blog theme from Kathy (it was too boring), I decided to mix it up a little and go with a little flashier theme.  Also, I noticed that I had not allowed commenting, so I modified that as well.  Let me know what you think.