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Before I could work on my upcoming CD from home, I had to do some hard work transforming our unassuming tool shed into a place I can put my recording gear and finish laying down tracks. The biggest problem since we left the trailer park over a year ago has been the lack of space I need to leave all my music junk out and accessible and to set up the computer that I record with. Of course the first thing I had to do was to get it cleaned out...unfortunately I didn't think to get my camera out while it was all full of tools, but this is the first picture I took. I started by putting up the desk first and loading in a little bit of equipment to clear a path in the garage for all the displaced tools. The wood for my desk came from an old building that was torn down on Pacific Ave. Large pieces of old growth fir that you can't find anymore. After I got the shelf built, I had to sand down the wood so I wouldn't get splinters. This is the first time that I realize I shouldn't h...

Well Sweetie picked her up on Monday morning, since she figured that it might make for a smoother transition if she were to come home when the boys were at school and things were a little bit quieter. She's a cautious dog, and took her time looking around the doublewide. Sweetie said the only time she got a bit frightened is when she peeked into our bedroom and saw her own reflection in the mirror. We named her Ku'ya which may or may not mean dog in native Australian aboriginal, as an homage to her Aussie Cattle Dog roots, of which we now think she has very little of. Mostly now we think she's part Lab part Bull Terrier with what appears to be either some Cattle Dog thrown in, or something similar. She's very sweet and thankfully housebroken, and while we've already had a fight break out between her and Teddy (in which Teddy had his plastic nose chewed off) both of them insisted they were just roughhousing and got a little carried away. (At least Ku'ya was carry...