So between 8 and 11am at some point, I shall graze heavily at the All-You-Can-Pancake Breakfast that the blockwatch is putting on tomorrow.  That’s the plan anyway, but knowing me I’ll get a bright and early start on the yard and forget all about it.

Wow, what a week it has been eh?  Work as usual has been busy and then of course coming home and spending time tweaking The Garage.  Probably the most frustrating part of it all, is spending most of my time fooling with the code.  It seems I spend more time fooling with it then I do enjoying it but that will change in time.  I’ve had a fair share of assistance in troubleshooting which has been more helpful than you know.  I don’t always have time to test everything right away so I rely on you guys to stumble over it and let me know

So far I like the feel of things, although I’m not sure I am fond of the gallery yet.  I think it has potential, I just need to RTFM as it were.  I am pleased with the forum and am anxious for it to get going.  Once I get where I want to be I will be able to spend more time on content making it worth your time to drop by and say hi.

I’ve gotta tell you though,  I feel like such a newbie right now considering this site was born in 98 and has internet roots that go further back then that.  That’s quite a few years of content, some I’m not although proud of, but it’s a diary right?  I’ve thought of sifting through the archives and bringing them back in their original dated form but I don’t know yet.  Looking back, some of it seems so irrelevant, yet it was a part of who I am or I guess was.  It all depends on how you look at it.  So if you see some material with some crazy dates, those are actually taken from articles of Garage Days past.

I imagine I wouldn’t be hip if I didn’t mention Twitter at some point and YES, you can follow me on Twitter now too.  But earlier in the week, @aplusk beat out @cnnbrk in a little contest for followers.  My wife asked me this morning what Twitter was, and the answer didn’t really come to until later on in the day.  It should be noted, that Ashton had a good answer when Larry King asked him tonight what Twitter was.

Having been involved in or on the net one way or another for many years, I have seen toys and goodies come and go.  In fact, one of my favorite programs back in the 90′s was AOHell.  I still have an 80 meg drive with windows 3.1 and a working AOHell on it.  Talk about Smithsonian material eh?  That’s another story for another time.  Twitter is many things.  Yes, to an extent with some folks, it’s a toy.  I think the smart guys and analysts though, they see it as a tool of many sorts I’m sure for many things.  In simple terms, I see it as a way to measure the pulse of the planet.  Yea, the planet is pretty big, but if you can hit the net, you can twitter.  Dial-up, DSL, or tin can; if you can hit the net you can share your thoughts.  Pulse can be many things from the moods to the music people are listening to.  From a statistical side, server hits are quite measurable in countless ways and can tell an analyst when the world is sleeping and when the gears are turning.  Sure there are other platforms out there that are quite popular like Facebook and MySpace.  We all know about those.  But it takes less time to type 140 characters or less than it does to even start with any of the other sites out there.  I think what we will see is with an easier method of updating, more and more people will Tweet on a more frequent basis.

If there was ever an RSS feed for the world, Twitter is it.  I think it’s awesome that the celebs have a real side too.  I know that there are several band sites for example that are run behind the scenes by the management companies and not the musicians themselves.  Yea, it’s kind of sad but that’s life.  Twitter affords high profile folks to give back to their fans on a more personal level.  I know there are those that would never get it, and that’s fine.  I like to talk to the person behind the personality, the person that wakes up with bed head like you and me.

I think I mentioned I went and saw Ten Dollar Outfit the other day.  I’ll tell you what, talking with the guys out back was right on, just what I’m talking about.  Come to find out, it wasn’t the entrance I was at, but what did I know since that was the first time at The Rhythm Room for me.  Nope, I was at the back door by the green room..Lost.  Don’t remember off hand what we were talking about but it was just laid back.

Oh I know, I was talking to Kaleb Anderson about my complete lack of rhythm.  Until of course Rock Band and Guitar Hero.  While I have my two hand drums, it was the games that got me to understand a beat.  Sure, I have a vast knowledge of music and am a good listener, but to make a rhythm was brutal.  Hooray, I can make a beat now.  At any rate, he said he saw that with a relative of his also.

So yea I know, I went way off on that one.  My point though, was having just a down to earth conversation about whatever works good for me.

By now you are probably wondering what all this has to do with pancakes.  Not a damn thing, but I will graze tomorrow.

peace