I've discontinued the cloud services. I don't think anyone other than me was using them anymore.

Bob

It's been about 5 years since the last person other then me posted on here. 
I will be working in the next few months to convert everything on this site to static
html pages to help future proof the site against platform deprecation and to make it 
easier to sustain the site should something happen to me. At that time no new posts 
will be possible on this forum and the entire history of posts on this forum will be 
presented on every visit.

Bob

Interestingly enough I just found someone added us to the metal-archives site back in 2009.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Delusional_Mind/3540282742

Bob

We also sadly have to announce that Robert "Mouse" Riness, our original drummer and a 
founding member of Delusional Mind, was murdered while on the job in December of 2021. 
This was learned when we were trying to contact him to let him know about Rick's 
death. His unique character and talents will be missed. Please keep his family in your 
thoughts.

It's with a heavy heart that we announce that our brother, Rick Faulkner, passed away today.

I forgot to post a notice here, but I upgraded my internet connection to 1Gbps 
downstream and 40Mbps upstream on Monday. You shouldn't notice much difference 
except when downloading songs, or if you use my cloud services. There was a little 
downtime Monday while the Comcast guy swapped out my modem.

Bob

There will be intermittent down time on Monday while I redress the cable 
management on my rack to make it a little easier to work on (and prettier, and
I just want to, etc).

Bob

RIP Neil Peart

His contributions to music and humanity will endure.

I did a major structure cabling project over the last month. This involved some
 
very short periods of downtime while I rerouted the cabling between the modem
 
and my rack.

Those changes are complete so no further interruptions due to them are expected.

Bob

In case you missed it, services are updated.

Bob

Services will be upgraded this coming Sunday-Tuesday. It should be fairly seamless.

Bob

The upgrade went as planned.

Bob

I'm planning on upgrading the OS on the server next Monday or Tuesday. 
There will be some minor downtime to reboot to the new kernel. 

Bob

There was some downtime yesterday while I swapped out the circuit breakers that
serve my basement to bring the electrical system into code compliance. This
resulted in some downtime as I had the service to the house disconnected longer
than my UPS could safely hold up the system.

Bob

Well the Dell C1100 was short lived. I tried to flash the BMC firmware which
threw an error, and the system will no longer POST, so it's a boat anchor.

Bob

Maintenance yesterday went smoothly. We're on fresh UPS batteries and I took the
downtime opportunity to blow the dust out of the servers. I got a Dell C1100
server which I racked as a spare server as well. I retired a spare lower end
server to use as a test bench and spare parts machine.

Bob

All services will be going down next Monday the 18th to swap out the UPS batteries.

Bob

UPS batteries have given up again. I've ordered replacements which will arrive
next week. I'll have to take down all services during the swap. I'll be ordering
a second UPS to provide more redundancy some time soon as well. 

Bob

I do, but it's my site so I doubt that counts.

Bob

Does anyone ever come here anymore?

Upgrades complete.

Bob

I'll be upgrading the OS on the server sometime on September 3rd so some
downtime should be expected.

Bob

Server has been swapped as of today. Hopefully we don't have any issues. If we
do we can revert to the old server.

Bob

Swapped out the switch last weekend.

I'll likely swap servers this weekend, but that's still up in the air.

Bob

I didn't do the move yesterday. I unexpectedly came into possession of a 52 port
managed switch which I spent the day configuring. I'll be moving over to that
switch soon as well. I'll likely end up moving servers and switches around with
no warning.

Bob

Monday I'll be upgrading the main server to one a couple of generations newer
which is both faster and lower power. The new server chassis will be 2U which
gives me more expansion options such as eventually moving to 10Gb ethernet for
SAN storage, etc. Other than the downtime you shouldn't notice any changes since
the existing server is already massive overkill for this application.

Bob
 

The internet upgrade was completed last week so download speeds should have
improved for all visitors.

I also migrated the cloud from owncloud to nextcloud which is more feature rich.

Bob

I'm upgrading my internet connection from 10Mbps upstream to 20Mbps. It should
be transparent when it happens. It probably won't be noticeable except when
downloading larger files from the site and other services I host.

Bob

Due to the snow storm on December 8th my internet connection was down from the
morning of the 9th through early this morning.

As an update, the storage shelf has been installed and currently has 26TB of
storage installed with enough open bays to increase that to an eventual 72TB
using drives of the same capacity as I'm currently using. 8TB of the existing
capacity is a hot backup set, so currently 18TB is being used for live storage.
With redundancy there is 9TB usable.

Bob

I'll be doing some hardware upgrades tomorrow so some downtime will occur. I'm
installing a 24 bay storage shelf which will allow me to extensively expand
storage going forward with no downtime required.

Bob

The replacement UPS batteries installed last November were bad so I've replaced
them again last night. This caused some downtime. Hopefully this set will give
us a few years of good service.

Bob

I finally moved all the server and network gear to the new rack this past
Monday. There was about 45 minutes of downtime during the move. I'm in the
process of acquiring a storage enclosure and SAS HBA so I can move the existing
storage array out of the 1U server it's currently in and open up much more room
to expand storage as the need arises.

Bob

Due to unforeseen circumstances the equipment move didn't happen yesterday.
Currently planning to try again next Monday or the one after that.

Bob

I'm moving the server and other gear into the new rack on Monday April 3rd. I'll
try to keep downtime under control but there may be a couple of hours of
downtime while I transplant everything. After that there may be random short
outages while I route and tie cables.

Bob

I updated the services to FreeBSD 11 several weeks ago. I'm getting a nicer
server rack in a couple of weeks and will be transplanting all the gear to it
shortly afterward. I'll update when to expect downtime.

Bob

The UPS batteries have been replaced and the new SSD installed.

Bob

The batteries in the UPS for the servers died and took down the UPS yesterday,
so I'm going to get new batteries today and replace them. I'll either do that
tonight or tomorrow. I'll install the new SSD at the same time.

Bob

I'll be shutting down the server for a period on this coming Monday to install
the second SSD into the server.

Bob

The move to the new server is complete. I deployed on FreeBSD 11.0 release
candidate 3. I've had no issues during testing and the only release critical
bugs don't impact anything I'm running. Once the final release comes I will
upgrade to that, which will require only a quick reboot.

In a month or so I will pull the SSD from the old server and install it in this
one to mirror the OS drive. That will require another reboot as the OS drive is
internal to the server.

I have not yet upgraded the services to FreeBSD 11. I will likely do that after
the official release.

Throughput to the main ZFS array quadrupled with this upgrade. Between that and
the move from 2 cores to 8 cores, and 6GB of memory to 24GB, users of the more
cpu intensive services should see an improvement in responsiveness.

Bob 

I'll be moving the services to the new server under FreeBSD 11 tomorrow. You
should expect all services to be down for an extended time. If all goes as
planned downtime should be limited to just a few minutes. If anything major
comes up I'll revert back to the existing server and OS.

Bob

The move into the rack is completed. FreeBSD 11 is expected to release in early
September so shortly after that I plan to move the services off the old trusty
desktop acting a server, to the new actual server. I may get a wild hair to
deploy on a FreeBSD 11 release candidate as so far it's been rock solid stable.

Bob

I'll be taking the server down on Sunday to move everything into the rack. This
will likely result in a couple of hours of down time while I get everything all
nice and tidy. The services will probably still be hosted on the current server
after the move. I have FreeBSD 11 release candidate 1 installed on the new
server and I'm moving configuration files over to it and testing, but I want to
be a little closer to the release version of FreeBSD 11 before I put it in
production. After that move I'll upgrade all the service jails in one operation.
We'll have to wait and see what that breaks, if anything.

Bob

I'm going to be replacing the current server, which is a decade old dual core
Dell desktop machine, with a real server running dual quad core Xeons and 24GB
ECC memory. The ZFS array drives will also be moving from an external esata
enclosure where they share a single sata channel into the hot swap bays on the
server where they will each have a dedicated channel. 

This will require a good amount of downtime as I'll be installing a server rack
to house the new servers. I'll also be moving all existing gear to the rack and
relocating my wall mounted monitor since it's currently where I plan to put the
rack.

A few weeks ago I also replaced the old 8 port unmanaged switch with a 24 port
fully managed rack mount switch. The new switch is fiber ready so if Google ever
decides to run fiber out my way....

It's unlikely this move will result in any perceivable performance increase for
the general sites, or for standard email services. If you use the webmail or
cloud services you will likely see a dramatic improvement on those.

Bob

Also, last month I updated the video page to use the Youtube HTML5 player
instead of the flash player.

Bob

I failed to mention it here, but there was some downtime a few weekends ago
while I upgraded the ZFS pool to 6TB of fully redundant storage. It's now
running on 4 x 3TB drives in a ZFS striped mirrors (RAID 10) config.

Bob

RIP Lemmy.

Bob

Attention users of the Delusional Mind / Treborlogic mail server:

I have made several improvements over the course of this year to increase
security and remove some convenience barriers. 

I have changed the webmail service to Roundcube webmail which has finally
matured to a point where I now consider it usable. The interface is much more
pleasing and intuitive than the old Squirrelmail system we were using before. 

I have changed the webmail URL from https://webmail.delusionalmind.com:2112 to
just https://mail.treborlogic.com. I have changed the link on the Delusional
Mind page to send you to the new URL. Any attempts to access the old URL will be
automatically redirected to the new one. 

I have eliminated support for Internet Explorer on Windows XP due to Microsoft's
intentionally not keeping either up-to-date over the last 10 years. They lack
SNI support so anyone using that old garbage will be unable to access their
owncloud accounts anymore. Clients incapable of SNI will get the webmail site by
default.

I have purchased a validated SSL certificate for mail.treborlogic.com so when
you visit the webmail site you will no longer get a security warning.

The mail server is fully and securely accessible via SSL/TLS and/or STARTTLS
methods. This means you are now able to access your email via other services
such as Gmail and Hotmail by adding your account on this server. You may also
now send email through the Treborlogic server via authenticated SMTP sessions
when connected via SSL/TLS or STARTTLS. You may now send and receive through
this service from any machine or device, including phones.

When the destination mail servers support SSL/TLS all mail sent through this
server will be delivered over entirely encrypted channels. While this depends on
the destination server having support, the Treborlogic server will always
encrypt if possible for both sending and receiving mail. 

The treborlogic.com and delusionalmind.com DNS zones are now cryptographically
signed via DNSSEC so if your DNS provider (ISP, etc) are DNSSEC compliant you
can trust that when you look up our services the results are authentic. 

All outgoing mail from the Treborlogic server for both the treborlogic.com and
delusionalmind.com domains are now cryptographically signed by the server using
DKIM. The public keys used to validate them are published in DNS which is
another reason the DNSSEC compliance mentioned before is important. This
provides assurance to receiving mail servers that the message did in fact
originate from our server and was not modified in transit.

I have dramatically increased the spam rejection on the server so your spam
levels should have decreased.

If you want to configure your phone, computer, or other webmail provider to send
and receive your treborlogic.com and delusionalmind.com mail use the details below:

For both sending (SMTP) and receiving (POP3 or IMAP) the server name is
mail.treborlogic.com. 

POP3 port configuration:
Using STARTTLS, port 110
Using SSL/TLS, port 995

IMAP port configuration:
Using STARTTLS, port 143
Using SSL/TLS, port 993

Sending mail (SMTP):
Using STARTTLS, port 587

Authentication method should be normal password or plain, which is fine since
SSL/TLS and STARTTLS are encrypted channels. When sending email (SMTP) the
server will not accept authentication at all (nor your mail) unless the
connection is secure.

Bob

Bob, go on youtube and pull up jawga boyz and listen to a song called chillin in
the back woods. listen to it and then listen to losing my soul and tell me what
you think.

Rick

It was rough since it was such an early attempt at it, but to me the potential
was worth preserving.

Bob

I wish we had worked on that ending more, it was slightly confusing but it had
potential.

Anyone paying attention may have noticed the forum was down yesterday and part
of today. I built a new FreeBSD 10.1 jail for apache and that caused a problem
with the Graffiti Wall executable since in FreeBSD 10.1 they dropped GCC, so the
libraries it was compiled to link against were missing. 

I unfortunately found that I had, in error, deleted all the development source
code tarballs for Graffiti Wall in one of the previous server moves, None of my
existing backups dated back far enough to contain them. 

Luckily I still had the 4 Seagate Cheetah SCSI drives and the DPT RAID
controller which were retired from service years ago laying around. I was a bit
nervous since they hadn't been spun up in several years after having been run
continuously for 10 years at the time I retired them. I put the card in one of
my spare machines, connected all the drives, fired it up and it happily booted
into my ancient Linux server install which allowed me to copy the source code
onto a thumb drive. 

Day saved! I compiled the code under the new FreeBSD 10.1 development
environment and all is well. I now have the code safely stored on my fault
tolerant ZFS array which is externally backed up weekly.

Bob

I added a clip to the music page from a 2007 jam session where we were toying
with an experimental change to the last section of Aphrodisiac. It's very rough,
and I'm pretty sure this is the only remaining evidence of the changes we were
planning for the song. There are mistakes and tonality issues, but that's to be
expected since this is probably the first time we played through this new part
of the song together and none of our parts were set in stone.

Bob

I upgraded the server's OS this week to FreeBSD 10. I also took the opportunity
to swap the OS drive to a new SSD so the OS is nice and snappy. I dedicated 32GB
of the new SSD to act as ZFS L2ARC for the storage array so all frequently
accessed data (like the websites, mail, cloud data, etc) will be cached to the
SSD in addition to the in memory ARC. This means as the L2ARC builds itself over
time virtually all service read requests will be served from the SSD. This
should help alleviate performance issues which may happen when I have the
storage array under heavy IO such as when I'm playing Counter Strike or Borderlands.

Bob 

Not that this is a huge event, but I added an Opus version of Losing My Soul to
the Music page. 

I've also begun a very long term project to remaster There And Back Again, and
Edge of Lunacy. Once completed they will be released on the Music page and
tagged as remastered so the old version will remain available for those who
prefer it. I am also working on putting together a very badly mixed and mastered
version of Wrapped In Thorns for release someday. It's one of my favorite songs
we performed but we have no decent recordings of it.

Bob

I'm planning to release more interesting clips from our recorded sessions in
time. I've just been working lately on cleaning up my storage and deleting
redundant copies of stuff to reduce the clutter on the storage array. I've also
been slowly configuring FreeBSD 10 in a virtual machine getting ready to update
this server. 

The really sad thing is we seem to have rarely recorded our rehearsals since
2007 so I don't have a lot of selections with the full band to pull from.

Bob

Hey Bob,
Why isn"t there a copy of Glad yer Gone or the one we called chicken something?
I can't remember what we called it now but once you here it you will remember
it. THe song I am referring to had a Clapton-esque sound to it. I can't remember
the rest of them, but there were some good jams from the old days.

RAF

Also, the site has been up and down a few times over the last couple of weeks.
This wasn't due to failures. I was testing various configurations in
anticipation for upgrading to FreeBSD 10. I've also added a new 3TB ZFS mirror
to the data pool so we have north of 3TB of available space available. This
should hold us over for quite some time.

The upgrade to FreeBSD 10 will happen some time in the next month or 2 and will
involve down time. 

Bob

I am now officially reminding Kristi:

"Mon May 19 14:53 2003

I'll remind you of that when you get to my age..

Bob"

I was 31 at that time.. She has since reached that age and now passed it by
several years.. So, by her own definition she is old.. I love her more than ever
though, even if she is an old lady!

Bob

ok

Go to Options, Personal Information, Edit Advanced Identities.

There you add other identities.

Bob

Bob,
When I send an email it sends from the delusional account. Can you make it from
treborlogic instead?

Rick

Merry Christmas!!!!

Exactly.

Bob

talk talk talk talk talk
talk...........................................................................
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See! No talk!

Bob

Better than no talk!

Bob

Wow a lot of tech talk.

Rick

I actually did most of those things last Friday.. 

The only thing left is getting Subsonic back up and running and the problem
there is openjdk just doesn't want to compile for me in FreeBSD.

Bob

I'm starting a new Linux System Admin job in a couple of weeks and will have
about a week off between the end of my notice at IBM and starting the new job. I
plan to transition the server ZFS storage array from USB based to an esata
external enclosure during that time, and I will be adding ram to the server as
well. I'll also take that time to finish bringing cloud services back online as
well..

Bob

Webmail service is back online..

Cloud services and music streaming should come up by the end of next weekend. My
time to work on the server is tremendously limited lately so it's been very slow
progress.

Bob

Now running on the new server. 

Webmail and other extended web services (cloud, music streaming, etc) are
offline with no planned ETA for restoration. My main goal this weekend was to
get moved and the websites back up with the critical internal services running..
All that is done. I'll restore the other services over time as I get the other
service jails set up. The site may be flaky while I work on that. On the plus
side all the data on this server is now more protected than it ever has been.

Having said that, things may be a little slow for awhile as I'm now going to
snapshot the host and data pools and back them up externally.

Bob

I'll replace the server this weekend.. Expect large amounts of breakage, or
maybe not. We'll see.

Bob

I'll be replacing the server in a couple of weeks. It will be going from a 1GHz
Athlon with 512MB of RAM to a 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM. I'll also take
the opportunity to again upgrade the OS to the latest version of FreeBSD, and
I'll be switching over entirely to ZFS. Once done the server will offer 1TB of
storage dedicated to services and data hosted on a ZFS mirror. The users of our
cloud services will notice the available free space for the service will go from
about 60G to north of 500GB. I'll also be further partitioning services to
improve performance and enhance security beyond the already overkill levels I've
deployed.

Bob

Ryan is an excelleny drummer, some of the fastest fills I have ever heard.

Rick

I also miss jamming with him.

Ryan rocks the drums! Miss playing with you in the garage back in Sarasota after
school!!! Keep jamming baby!!

RJ

The server will be going down for some time this weekend to add more RAM and
replace the LAN NIC with a new gigabit card. That won't impact server
performance externally but it will greatly improve internal services hosted on
the server =)
The internal network is mostly gigabit and it's annoying being limited to 100Mb
at the server.

I'm in the process of planning a fresh reinstall when I move to FreeBSD 9.1 with
an eye for scalability and security. The current setup is already very secure,
but it's not well suited for my goal of exploiting the capabilities of ZFS.

Bob 

Prayers and sympathies for the parents of the children lost today in Conneticut
and the six people that died trying to protect them. I hope the killer rots
slowly in hell.

All the critical infrastructure and cabling changes are done. There should be no
further down time due to our moving the workstations out of the basement. 

The next outage will be to upgrade the private lan network interface card in the
server to gigabit ethernet to facilitate faster network backups. That won't
happen for awhile though.

Bob 

The first batch of Opus files are posted. The initial batch are our official
demo songs. 

Opus is a brand new codec so playback support is still spotty but most recent
releases of the major open audio player software out there now support it. Even
Firefox 15+ will play it natively.

Enjoy the low bit rate quality of this great new codec. If you think it's great
for storing music, wait until you hear what it will do for real time
communications on the internet and cell phone call quality in the future!

Details about the codec can be found at http://www.opus-codec.org/

Bob

In celebration of the first fully open and royalty free advanced lossy audio
codec to be standardized by a major standards body, I will be releasing all our
FLAC sourced files encoded with the newly approved Opus codec. The IETF
(Internet Engineering Task Force, the body that standardizes the protocols used
on the Internet) has ratified the Opus audio codec as RFC 6716
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716).. I will encode our files in the Opus
format at 96kbps VBR. I'll make the changes on the music page to link to the new
versions once ready.

This represents a major leap forward in the fight for media distribution freedom
on the internet as since Opus is an IETF standard and a required codec for the
coming WebRTC standard, any device or software that implements WebRTC in the
future (they all will) will be required to support a fully free as in freedom,
open source, and royalty free audio codec.

We've had a modern free codec for over a decade in the form of OGG Vorbis, but
we've never had it recognized and promoted by a major standards body. This will
hopefully be a turning point away from the closed and patent encumbered AAC.
Opus even matches or outperforms both Vorbis and AAC!

Keep an eye on the music page.. I'll likely release them in the next week or 2.

Bob

It'll be so short when it happens that no one will notice..

Bob

YAY!!!! Downtime...

We're in the process of moving all the workstation computers upstairs to be more
convenient for us. The server and most networking gear will stay where it is.
The move will call for very short amounts of downtime while I recable
everything. I'm pulling the random cable nightmare that currently exists and
will be doing a proper cable management system, including defined cable runs and
color coded cables.

There may be random short periods of down time over the next couple of weeks
while we move everything.

Bob

Most of the upgrade for the web server is done. I've changed the webmail link so
that it now opens in a new window/tab instead of in a frame within the DM site.

I still have several more rounds of updates to go, and there may be some odd
behavior related to that, but most of the really visible stuff is done.

Bob

I'm in the process of upgrading the server OS. Expect odd behavior the next few
days.

Bob

Russ graciously allowed me to use the lyrics to Day of Rain so I can record the
song. I went back and listened to the Masquerade show on 10/30 and now realize
just how good that song really is. It gave me goose bumps listening to it. I
will send the finished product to my brother Bob pnce it is done and he can add
bass and a computerized drumline so it can be done completely, Russ has also
offered to lay some tracks also. We will se what transpires. I don't know how
many people know how time consuming the recording process is. I hope everyone
will enjoy the finished product. Bob or I will post on the forum when it is done
and on the music page.

Just released another clip from the days of old. 

Losing My Soul was our first real attempt at writing and recording a song. It
was recorded live in my basement, late 2000 to early 2001.

Now available on the music page in OGG Vorbis, MP3, and FLAC formats. More will
be on the way next week!

Bob

The first release from our old rehearsal sessions is available on the Music
page. You'll notice the name of the "song" is actually a link. The link will
take you to a page giving you background on the clip.

This clip is an example some of the lighter stuff we would come up with while
playing.

Stay tuned, there are more coming soon!

Bob

The Delusional Mind Music account system is now sunset.

The music page will load MUCH faster now. As has been the case since the band
broke up, all downloads are free.

Remember that I will be releasing gems from our rehearsal recordings spanning
about a decade, so keep checking in for new releases!

Bob

I will be sunsetting the Delusional Mind Music Account system sometime in the
next week or 2. Since all downloads are free and the highest quality available,
the account system no longer has a purpose. 

Currently when the music page is viewed the song list is dynamically generated
because it would depend on what you'd purchased. That overhead on the server is
no longer needed since everyone now gets the exact same list. I'll be converting
the system to only regenerate the list when the database of songs changes
instead of every time the page is viewed.

Also, I will be releasing various recordings made during rehearsals. Some will
have singing, many will not. Some may have certain band members missing as they
were absent the day of the recording or not in the band at the time. It will be
a mix of recordings spanning from the 90's all the way to the end, with quality
from ranging abysmal to excellent. Some will be previously unreleased recordings
of jam sessions where we were working on never before heard songs. 

I have literally weeks worth of recorded jams and rehearsals. I even have some
old videos I'll post selections of. This will all happen over a very long time
as I get around to it, but keep checking back for updates!

Bob 

He had a massive heart attack while driving a semi truck. The truck ran off the
road but he was gone before that happened. No one else was injured.

Bob

Was just looking for Grey on the Internet. We were best friends in fourth and fifth grade in Baltimore 
and had such fun together. I was heartbroken to see that he passed away. Can someone tell me 
what happened? Thanks. 
Kathy 

A sad thing indeed..

RIP Jim Marshall

http://www.jimmarshall.co.uk/

Bob

In case you didn't notice, we're running on new UPS batteries and I swapped out
the cpu fan on the server.. Much quieter in here now!

Bob

This weekend I will be taking all services down to replace UPS batteries and to
replace worn out cpu fans on several machines.

I don't expect downtime to exceed a couple of hours.

Bob

We're running on comcast now.. It will take a few days for the DNS changes to
propagate, but things should be normal after that. For those who get the site,
it should be much quicker.

Bob

only 2 options around here.. at&t, which is what I'm currently running, and
comcast.. so we're going comcast.

at&t has been very unreliable lately, and my contract just expired.. They are
wanting to jack up my rate to keep what I have. Comcast will give me double the
downstream and 4 times the upstream capacity for a touch less than I paid at&t
under my old contract, so here we are..

Bob

which provider are you going to?


Rick

I'll be changing internet providers next Tuesday. The new connection will have
substantially higher upstream capacity so site performance should improve by
quite a nice margin.

Expect down time, and for there to be a period of time of spotty up time while
DNS propagates the new info.

Bob

I changed the webmail system to Squirrel mail.. The interface isn't as slick,
but it performs a LOT better than Roundcube and has a lot more features.. The
old Openwebmail system we used to run won't work in the current server
configuration.

Bob

I'm going to be moving the webmail system back to the old software as it turns
out to be a LOT faster and reliable, as well as much more full featured. I'll
admit that while roundcube looks nicer, it's very rough where it counts.

Expect weird crap to happen with the webmail over the next several weeks.

Bob 

I removed the Mailing List link from the site's menu. I've decided to retire the
mailing list since the band is defunct. 

Bob

Most services should now be back up and usable.
We changed webmail software. The new software doesn't have as many features as
the old, but it's still being developed and consumes dramatically less resources
on the server.

Things are still very buggy, and I still have a lot of firewall rules to write,
so expect quirks here and there. Spam filtering is still not running so you're
likely to see an increased amount of spam.

Bob

As you may have noticed, there have been several service interruptions. 

Email services *should* now be functioning, but it's running in a very basic
mode and no spam filtering is active. 

Webmail is still down. I'll likely be changing webmail software as openwebmail
development has stalled and it's performance has been lacking in my opinion. I'm
looking at either squirrelmail or roundcube as a replacement.  

Continue to expect issues over the next several weeks.

Bob

We're running on the new OS.. There is a LOT of stuff still broken, most notably
all mail service is still down.

I'm working on it, but it will take awhile.

Bob

The site will go down this weekend for the swap over to the new system.

Expect major breaking of virtually every service, and for things to not get back
to normal for at least several months. I hope to have an acceptable service
level running within a week.

Bob

Move is complete. This server has half the cpu power and half the RAM, so
performance may be a little off until I bring the old server back online under
the new OS, We're moving to FreeBSD on the main server. I haven't abandoned
Debian Linux, it's just going to be running ancillary services.

Bob 

The site and all services will be down for a short period this coming weekend
(March 5-6) while I migrate this server's drives to a temporary server.
Performance may suffer after the move due to the temporary server being less
robust than the current server.

I will be installing and configuring a new OS on the current server hardware.
Once up and running with a minimal secure configuration I will transfer the
primary services back to this server under the new OS. Not all services will be
available immediately. There are many years worth of tweaks and features on this
server that will have to be recreated from the ground up, and that will take
some time. It will take at least a few weeks to have the current server with the
new OS configured sufficiently to be placed back into production with minimal
services. 

Bob

Different Grave Danger. 


John

I don't remember John being a member of the band Grave Danger.  I saw them many
times in the late 80's to around 92 and dont remember him?  Were you in the
Grave Danger that opened for Quiet Riot?

The internet radio stations are now decommissioned. Maintaining them is not
feasible for a dead band. All the content that was on them is available on the
Music page.

Bob

I've released a video clip from a jam session taped in April of 2002 to Youtube.
It's the original melody that morphed into the song All Alone.

This predates Ryan and Russ's involvement and features our original drummer,
Robert Riness. 

You can access it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCZs0eGQqk

There will be more of this kind of stuff released over time so stay tuned!

Bob

Added some old masters from the archive to the music page. These are old
versions of some of our songs recorded back in 2002 using a computer for the
drum lines. They are instrumental since we had no vocalist at the time. Some of
these songs predate their lyrics and therefore are named differently. In these
cases we included the modern version name in parentheses. The recordings are
near studio quality. These tracks feature only Rick, John, and Bob.

DM

Talk about karma.. After posting about the radio stations being flakey
yesterday, the main server blew it's network card. It even downed the server it
fried so bad.

After a quick nic swap and a recompile, all is well again, for now.

Bob

The internet radio stations have been, and will continue to be for the immediate
future, unstable. I'm planning a major software upgrade on the web server, and
at that time I will move the streaming daemons onto the web server instead of
streaming from a separate machine. The current streaming server will be retired
at that time. That old Pentium 3 800MHz machine with 128MB of RAM has earned
it's retirement. The transition is still many months away at the earliest, so
expect radio service to be spotty until then.

Bob

And we lost Paul Gray of Slipknot.

This is shaping up to be a sad year for Metal.

Bob

Today we lost Ronnie James Dio.. His memory will live on in his music. 

DM 

We've released an old rejected demo version of the song "After Me" from early 2008.

It's available on the Music page in OGG, MP3, and FLAC formats.

DM

I put together a compilation video of clips taken during rehearsals and shows
from 2007 through our last show.

For now it's available on our Multimedia page and youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pK5pcSpxG4

Bob

It must be your fault.. Since you were the 1st to chime in that it wasn't.

Bob

don't blame me,, i didn't do it.

RJR.
The Mighty Pewbert.

We've found some old video on VHS dating back to 2002, so expect some old school
video to be released some time this year which features the original DM lineup
of John, Rick, Bob, and Robert Riness on the drums.

I'm also working on a compilation video which will have clips from rehearsals
and shows spanning our most active period, 2007-2009.


Bob

We had hoped to keep DM alive as a jam band, but it appears that any free time
that comes up will be diverted to working on other projects rather than playing
together. So, DM is now officially defunct. The web site will remain in place to
act as a distribution point for the music we made, and for historic reference.

There may be releases in the future, but it will likely be songs put together by
subsets of the former members rather than a full group effort.

We thank all our fans for their interest in our music.

John, Ryan, and Russell have formed a new band called Severity.
Their website is www.severitymetal.com
Their myspace is www.myspace.com/severitymetal

DM

We would like to extend our thanks and deep appreciation to those who have
volunteered their service, and their lives, to protecting this country and our
freedom.

Please remember to thank any veterans you meet for your freedom.

DM

Sales of the demo album have ended. Everything you need to create one of your
own, including CD quality versions of the songs, front and inside cover images,
and the CD label image are available on the web site for free download. Even the
bonus pictures are in the Multimedia gallery. The included video is posted on
Youtube.

DM

We forgot to announce this when we did it, but we've released the demo songs in
the highest quality versions possible on the Music page. The OGG Vorbis files
are now encoded at quality 8, the MP3's are VBR somewhere in the 224Kbps range,
and we've released the FLAC files as well so you can download the best copies in
existance.

We've released the live recordings of our songs from the 1st show as well on
that page. Keep checking back as we will be pouring over our archive of jam
session recordings, rehearsal videos, and show videos, which we will release
here and there. Expect some special internet radio broadcasts of selected jam
session recordings as well. 

And last, but not least, Happy Halloween!

DM

i'll give it shot. the thing is becoming an eye sore here at my shop. i'll let
ya know how it turns out. 

Pewb..

Should run just fine. Debian supports powerpc, and even if your machine is
slower and lacks ram, you can run some of the lightweight window managers on it
just fine.

Bob

hey fret,

how well or if at all will linux run on a G4 notebook? i happen to have one here
with the Mac OS on it and of course its no better then windows crap, its
corrupted and DOA but everything else seems fine so was thinking about loading
debian on it. let me know..

Pewbert...

Pics from the show on September 18th are now posted in the multimedia gallery.
Also, a video of us playing "Rage" at that show is also now posted there.

Delusional Mind has changed status from an active, primary band for it's
members, to a moniker under which we will all play together casually. We will
continue to work together over time. The first album is still on the agenda as
well, though the release date will likely be in the range of several years. We
will also make rare stage appearances, also with a frequency measured in years.

The members will be forming/joining other projects which we will also announce
here. Some of the songs you've enjoyed from Delusional Mind will be transferred
to at least one of those projects.

The songs that will remain with Delusional Mind are: After Me, Rage, Day Of
Rain, Nameless, All Alone, There And Back Again, Edge Of Lunacy, Aphrodisiac,
and Insanity's Realm. You can bet money that will be the song list on our album.

My Pain, as it was released on our demo, will remain as a staple of Delusional
Mind, though you will likely find it under one of the new projects as well.

We wish to thank all those who have enthusiastically followed the band, the fans
who have cheered us on, the venues and promoters who have hosted us, and our
families for their love and support. 

We hope to still see you out there screaming and throwing up the horns at our
future shows as Delusional Mind, and under our various new projects as well!

This is NOT the end of the Delusional Mind.

DM 

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us last Friday night at the Local. We had
a great time!

DM

Web based ticket sales for the show tomorrow have ended. See you all there!

DM

Ticket sales on the site will end Thursday night. The shipping option has been
removed today. Be sure to get tickets ASAP!

See you all at the show!

DM

Posted pictures from the show on August 15th in the Multimedia section. Check em
out!

DM

Tickets for the September 18th show at the Local are now on sale on our site!

DM

Awsome drummer and lead guitar guys...hope to see a show soon.  Post some new 
music soon that would be great!

Michelle

Thanks for coming out to the show lastnight. We had a great time and hope every
one enjoyed it.

DM

RIP Les Paul. Thanks for your contributions to the art!

Bob

Ticket sales on the site have ended for this show. Tickets are still available
so contact a band member to get yours! Keep an eye on the site for the September
18th show tickets! 

See you all on Saturday!

DM

This is the last day to get tickets for the show this Saturday from our site. If
you're going to the show, we'll see you there!

Bob

Less than 2 weeks until we play at the Masquerade and just over a month until
we're opening for Ravage at The Local! Tickets for the show at the Masquerade
are still on sale on the web site so get them while you can! We will start
selling tickets for the show on September 18th as soon as we get some in. 

Keep checking in for more updates!

DM

Happy 4th of July to those fans in the US!

We have received our stash of tickets for the show on August 15th at the
Masquerade. They are on sale now at the web site for $13. If you can get one
from a band member in person they are $12, and door price is $15.

We'll let you know when we get tickets for the show on September 18th!

DM

Ryan,
Good to hear from you! You guys sound great!!! I notice you still hit the snare 
in the same spot every time, i can see the marks on your drumhead in the pics!
Holler when you're in Sarasota!
Mark and Michelle

The pics from the May 23rd show are now posted!

Bob

We added a few more pics from the February 7th show to the gallery for that
show, provided courtesy of Kristie Neese. Check em out. You'll find them on the
3rd and 4th pages of the gallery.

We should have pictures of the May 23rd show up this weekend. I know I promised
they'd be up this week, but someone took the CD they were on so we have to wait
until tomorrow to get them.

Bob

We should have pictures from the 05/23 show up on the site next week. Keep
checking back with us for them. 

Bob

Great! I'm looking forward to seeing em!

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us on Saturday night. It was a great
show. Every band there was a force to be reckoned with!

Bob

Awesome job last night guys! You guys played phenomonally at Insomnia! Can't 
wait for the next show! I have the cd of pictures for you guys so will drop it 
off at the next practice.

Angie

We'll be playing this Saturday May 23rd at the Insomnia venue in Villa Rica, GA.
We go on at 7:30pm and are kicking off a full night of skull splitting metal.

Tickets are $7 at the door and the show is all ages.
See the link on the left side of the page for a map.

See you all there!!

DM

Some very interesting instruments, but some of them would be quite impractical.
Very cool ideas in there though!


Bob

http://www.collthings.co.uk/2009/01/cool-guitars.html

Thought you guys might get a kick out of these.

Matt

Delusional Mind will be playing Saturday, April 18, 2009 at The Warehouse in
Kennesaw, GA. The show begins at 7pm and we will take the stage at 10pm.

The other bands playing before us are:
7:45 Misery's Tragedy 
8:30 Garden of Stone (A Tribute To Pearl Jam)
9:15 Vile Candy

The 7pm slot is still open so that band is TBA.

Tickets are $7 at the door and this is an all ages show!

See you there!
DM

The site is undergoing some updates so expect a little odd behavior over the
next few days.

Bob

yep.. I passed it along to Ryan through our internal communications system..
Like I said, he can be hard to reach during the week.

Bob

did you get the e-mail? - Danica

THANKS!!! I'm e-mailing now - D.

well hello there stranger, how the heck are you i see you know I'm in a band
what do you think??? Its been a while how are you Danica. I'm good living in Ga.
and engaged to be married. I hope all is good with you I would love to hear from
you sometime MY # is XXX XXX XXXX call me sometime K WELL HOPE TO TALK
SOON!!!!!!!!!! 
  RYAN (drummer DM)

*edited by Bob to remove the number. Danica, send email to 
dm AT delusionalmind DOT com 
and we'll get you in touch with Ryan that way. 

It may take awhile to get a response from him.. He's usually hard to reach
during the week.

Bob

Hey I'm trying to get a hold of Ryan. I'm an old friend from High School,
Danica. Tell Him to look me up on facebook or post here how I could get a hold
of him. THANKS!

Due to schedule conflicts, the upgrade on the 7th will not occur. I'll post when
the next attempt is coming.

Bob

The site will be down for an extended period on Saturday March 7th. I'll be
upgrading the server to the latest release of Debian. If all goes well the
downtime will be short.

Bob

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us last night! We had a blast! Pictures
from the show are now posted in the Multimedia gallery and more will be added
soon. We may have video from the show available soon as well! Keep an eye on the
page for new show dates. 

DM

We finally got our latest order of official demo CD's in and they are once again
available for purchase from our main site! They will also be available for
purchase at our shows.

Sorry for the long wait, but they came out great!

DM

We pulled the site sales of tickets to the show at the Warehouse. We never got
around to getting any, and it would cost more to buy them here than at the door
anyway. We're all pumped up and looking forward to the show this Saturday. See
you all there!

DM

After almost a full year, we are stepping back on stage February 7th! We'll be
playing at The Warehouse in Kennesaw, GA. We are scheduled to go on at 9:15
for a 30 minute set. The other bands for the night are not yet determined. The
door price is $7. The tickets can be purchased on our site for $8 as well. We
should have demo CD's available at the show!!

If you've been patiently waiting to see us back on stage, your wait is over!
We'll be playing some new material and a couple of songs from the demo. This
will also be your first chance to hear some of the new songs that will be on
our first album as well!

We'll see you there!

DM

DM wishes all it's friends and family a very happy New Year!!!

Also, I will be rebooting the server this evening as part of the OS updates that
were applied. I'm getting the server ready for the move to Debian 5.0 once it is
released.

Bob

Doing some OS updates on the server. Hopefully there will be no issues involved.

Bob

Merry Christmas!!

Delusional Mind has decided to release the demo songs for free download! They
are available on the music page of the site in OGG and MP3 formats. They are
also playing 24/7 on our radio stations. The official demo CD will still be
available for purchase from our web store as well, though we are still waiting
for the next shipment of CD's to come in. They should be here either this week,
or early next week.

Remember that demo cd's will have the inside cd cover signed by all 5 band members!

DM

Ok, AT&T finally saw reason and fixed their issues. So no wacky stuff with the site!

Bob

The site will be undergoing some weird stuff over the next several weeks. I'm
moving our hosting to another provider since AT&T is useless.. I never thought
I'd say I miss Bellsouth..

Bob

Maintenance complete!

Bob

The site will be going down by 2pm today for maintenance. It could be down for
several hours.

Thanks for your patience!

Bob

Hey John and Russ, this is Alex from the store.  You guys rock! We need more 
metal-jazz amalgams in my opinion.  My current band is just getting done 
recording our first album, and we'll be playing some shows soon.  We should 
combine forces and destroy some venues around here.

I'll see you guys around!

Al

The site will be down this Saturday for server upgrades. Downtime is unknown but
expect from around noon until I get finished. It could be several hours.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Bob
Delusional Bassist

In memory of one of metals true guitar legends.

Dimebag you are truely missed!!!

One of AT&T's sales weasels took down our internet connection on Tuesday. He was
told by us not to mess with our account but apparently he decided we really
meant YES when we told him NO we don't want you to upgrade our account.. So he
proceeded to "upgrade" our service, which reset us to a different IP block,
which eliminated our internet presence.. After haggling with their support group
for the last 2 days trying to get them to correct our IP block assignment, they
came back and said we can't have our old block back. Period.. Soo, we registered
the new addresses in the root DNS system and now that info will take a couple of
days to propogate through the DNS system. Our site will probably not be back to
100% normal for a couple more days.

Anyway, we should have new demo cd's in stock in the next 2-3 weeks. Sorry for
the delay!!

DM

We burned through our initial stock of Death Grip CD's already. We have an order
in place for a batch that should hold us out for quite some time. It will
unfortunately be a couple of weeks before we get our hands on them. Sales have
been suspended on the website until we have stock again. We'll let you know as
soon as we get the shipment in.

Thanks for your patience!

DM

Delusional Mind is excited to announce the release of our demo album, Death Grip!

The songs can be listened to on our music page, and on our myspace page. The
demo is available for purchase in our web shop for $4. That gets you access to
download the songs in OGG Vorbis and FLAC formats, and a CD shipped to you. 

As a bonus, if you put the CD in your computer, it also contains copies of all 4
songs in OGG and FLAC formats, a video of Delusional Mind playing "There And
Back Again" live at a show, and a full complement of photos from our show at
Sidelines in Atlanta on 12/29/2007! It also contains the demo CD cover and label
images!

For a limited time all CD's ordered will have the inside of the cover
autographed by all the band members!

Give it a listen, and thanks for supporting the Delusional Mind!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all of you fiends!

DM

I like the new songs! Thanks Bob for telling me about them. I want to get by 
one day and hear you guys live. 

Philly Phil Craven

We've released the DEMO version of "My Pain". This is a new song we've not
played at any shows. This is the first time anyone outside the band and our
families have heard this song.

It's available to listen to and for purchase on the music page, and is
purchasable in our web shop. You can also hear it on our myspace site.

We are working hard to get the next, and last, demo song mixed and released.
We'll be compiling the 4 demo songs into a demo EP and releasing it for sale in
our shop as well. After that we'll be 100% focused on recording the albums for
several months.

Let us know what you think of "My Pain"!

DM

We've launched the Delusional Mind web store with the ability to buy our demo
songs as they are released! The songs are playable from our Music page, but if
you choose to buy them, they are available for download in OGG Vorbis format at
quality 8, and FLAC format for the true audiophile. They're only 50 cents so if
you enjoy our music please support us by purchasing the demo songs! 

The live recordings from our October 13th, 2007 show are still free for the playing!

Bob

We're working hard on getting the demo versions of "There And Back Again" and a
new song none of you have heard yet called "My Pain" ready for release. Expect
releases of both of these songs in the coming weeks!

Bob

The web server will be down for potentially a few hours tonight. I'm doing some
security updates. The down time will probably be less than half an hour, but
could take a few hours if there are complications.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Bob
Delusional Bassist

Hey I'm from John's class at KSU.

Just listened to the radio and every guitar solo was freaking sweet.

Keep rockin

Keep checking in! We're done recording the demo tracks and are mixing down the
remaining 3 songs. We'll have those posted as soon as they are ready!

Bob
Delusional Bassist

Hey there greetings from Indy!! The drummer's mother sent me an email with your 
new track.I am the drummers cousin.A couple of you met us when we were there in 
G.A. I just wanna stop by and say...YOU GUYS ROCK !!! Hope you make it to INDY 
sometime because I would love some tickets to the show! Well Best Wishes and 
keep Rockin!! Danny and Kelly D.M.fans !

The new track Ryan e-mailed me sounds great....Will have to plan a trip up to 
GA soon to see you all again.....maybe I can blow up there on one of the 
hurricanes going by.....Kathy Judkins.....BIG TIME fan!!!

Those of you who are on our mailing list already know this:

We had some network hardware failures this month. The main network switch
failed a couple of weeks back and we were limping along on a 4 port wireless
router/switch since then. This past Sunday I got a new 8 port gigabit switch
and installed it. There was a problem with the installation that I didn't have
time to resolve until Monday night. That resulted in the site and all services
being inaccessible until Monday night. 

We apologize for the inconvenience.

On the music side of things, we have finished recording all 4 songs that will
be on the demo! We are mixing the songs now, and you can expect to see some
new demo releases from us in the next few weeks!

The 4 songs on the demo are (in no particular order)
Edge Of Lunacy,
Rage,
There And Back Again,
My Pain.

Now that the demo is nearing completion, our focus will be shifting to getting
back on stage, and recording our 2 debut albums!

Keep checking the site for updates as they happen!

DM

We had a hardware failure last night. The ethernet switch failed which disrupted
access to the site. The site is now operating off the built in 4 port switch on
the wireless router. The main result of this is the radio streams are down since
the stream server was on the switch that failed. We will get the services back
up as soon as possible.

DM

Delusional Mind would like to acknowledge and remember George Carlin. His humor
insight, and wit will be sorely missed in this world.

DM

As mentioned in the post before this one, we have released our first DEMO track
of the song "Edge Of Lunacy". You can download it or listen to it from our music
page, or listen on our myspace page. 

Let us know what you think, and more will follow soon!

DM

The EOL demo sounds awesome, very tight!!! You guys rock!! So much of your
dedication to your music is expressed in that one song, therefore, i can't wait
to hear what is yet to come!!!  Also, looking forward to see you guys live
again, soon, i hope.... Rock on!!!
AMV, soon to be AMJ :)

Delusional Mind would like to thank all those who serve the cause of freedom.
Those who have given their life to gain it, and to protect it, deserve our
unending gratitude.

It is their sacrifice that makes it possible for us to make and perform our
music without having our voices silenced by the oppression of others.


 

We should have a demo version of Edge Of Lunacy up shortly. Keep checking the
music page for updates!

DM

We're still working hard on writing the new songs and getting some new covers
nailed down. Expect some new songs at our shows in the near future!

DM

Just an update. We're hard at work on new material for both the 1st and 2nd albums. 

Stay tuned!

DM

Hi Dana! Sign up to our mailing list and you'll get an email anytime we have a
show coming up! That way you'll know about them, even if John slacks!

I'm all about learning to play bass.. I'm still learning!! Jeff, I'll help ya
get started if you want. Make sure to buy cheap crap to start. If you decide
down the road you don't want to keep up with it you won't be out a ton of money.
If you make it a year or 2 and still have the desire to keep learning, you can
upgrade gear then.. Playing an instrument is almost like an arranged marriage.
You won't know if it'll be a happy marriage until you've been together awhile.

Bob

Hey,
Dana here. John, call me. I am thinking I might not have a current number for you.
I can't believe you haven't been calling and updating me about the shows!
Anyway, Hey everybody, Good to see you have gotten some good gigs. Hopefully
Jeff and I will make the next one. He has it in his head he wants to learn how
to play bass.... 

dana :)

Pictures from the show last Friday are now in the Image Gallery!

DM

Delusional Mind has setup a mailing list server to provide an easy and
convenient path to keep interested fans updated on band related news. In
addition, those who sign up to the list can post to the list. This will provide
an email based forum for discussing the band and music in general.

You can access the list, and sign up for it, by clicking the "Mailing List" link
on the left side of the page!

And make sure to come out and see us this Friday at the Masquerade, on the
Heaven stage! We're playing with 3 other power house bands which will make this
a great show! You can get tickets by visiting our shop on the left of the page
as well!

DM

Remember we have a show coming up next week on the 7th of March at the
Masquerade! We need everyone to be there! It's going to be an awesome show with
4 southern, thrash, and progressive metal inspired bands laying siege on heaven!

DM 

Added some new rehearsal pics to the Image Gallery. 

DM

Was a fun show.. Glad you got a chance to see Ryan throw down on stage!!

Bob

I sure enjoyed the show at the Seven Venue on February 15,2008.  Thanks for
putting the show together while I was in town.  It was so great to see you all
play.  You sounded awesome, can't wait to see you play again.  Kathy Judkins

Hey guys! Sorry we won't be able to make it out tonight to watch you! I am sure 
you will rock as always! We will definitely be there at the Masquarade 
though!!!!! 
Have fun!!!
Angie & Joey

Added a new album insert with the lyrics for "After Me" and "Insanity's Realm"
to the album art page. You can access it through "The Music" link on the left,
and then scrolling down near the bottom of the page.

DM

Date change for The 7 Venue.... We will be playing on the 15th of Feb. Not the
29th. Tickets will be available here on the site or from band members. Doors open 
at 6PM...

SEE YOU THERE!!!!


DM

Delusional Mind gave me a big dose of reality!  

We have a show scheduled for March 7th at the Masquerade, Atlanta, on the Heaven
stage. We'll be playing with Night's Watch, and Eclipsed By Sanity. This will be
a great show so come out and see us!

Bob

It's not publicly accessible.

When we get closer to releasing the album we'll make the lyrics available as an
album insert.

Bob

I am looking for the lyrics link...

Live concert recordings from a camcorder just doesn't do bass any favors. Keep
checking back. We're working on the demo and album right now, so we should have
some decent quality stuff up on the site before too long.

Bob

Delusional Mind is something new, and to be quite honest... VERY Testamentish 
with a hint of Metallica.... never thought I would say that.  Bob.... keep them 
guitarists in check Bro.... you sound awesome when I can hear you.  Oh, and 
tell your drummer to spring for some Sabian AA series... studio and crash have 
an awesome sound to them in comparrison to others on the market.

If you ever get good publicity, I would want to be your manager.  I would make 
you BIG, so long as your patient  :o)  

In all... aside from my personal critiques.... to sum this post up in as few 
words as possible.

DELUSIONAL MIND ROCKS!


Good luck guys,

Orocular Flamewave,
Arcanist of Prexus
The Rathe

The live recordings of most of our songs are now up on the music page!

DM

There are a ton of new pics in the Image Gallery from the show on December 29th
at Sidelines Rock Live. Check em out!

DM

Well, my feelings about fender basses are no secret to anyone I know.. Of the
basses I own, the Lotus is the only P copy bass(it was my 1st), and it also
lives up to my expectations of that type of instrument. The only way to make it
playable was to lower the action so low it buzzes more than anything else, but
it's livable. 

Anyway, my Smith is my pride and joy, and probably has more to do with spoiling
me against most other basses out there than any other factor. Once you've played
perfection.. The Smith is the bass you'll hear in our recordings of all standard
tuned songs that don't go below E, which is all of them right now. I'm writing
"You Stand Accused" which is based on the 5-string, so until I can get the cash
together for a Smith 5, that will be played/recorded on the Brice.

Keep checking back! We're working hard on the album right now. We'll have
release songs ready before too long..

Bob

Greetings DM, picked up on a discussion thread at musicplayer's bass forum 
wherein Bob was dissin' the Fender line of Bass Guitars, hahaha. So I thought I 
would have a look at the DM website he has posted and checked out the gear and 
the music, after all if someone is going to stand up with a statement like 
that, I feel it's only respectfull to check out Why that opinion is held and so 
I have. I like it, I like it all. There are too many people in this world who 
fall into that old cliche about opinions and ass-holes and it is refreshing to 
hear someone express a heartfelt opinion on an issue, that has a basis in 
reality and not just offered because it's trendy of expected, know what I mean?
Personally I can't see myself pay any amount of money to buy some guitar with 
some companies logo pasted on it, when I can apply a little bit of study and 
research, and a little creativity and build my own instrument.I am in the 
process of building my own Jazz style Bass, so I'm always interested to see 
what others are building and playing, and I especially like that Ken Smith 
custom BSR Elite G. Nice looking instrument indeed. I hope that is the primary 
instrument used on your recordings, because the sound is sweet and I'm looking 
at the composition of the materials used in that Bass and am getting some ideas 
about my own effort so...to conclude, nice to meet ya'll, don't know if you 
will ever make it up to North Bay Ontario Canada, but if you do I'll certainly 
come see ya and make a proper intro then. Oh and looking forward to your album 
release :))

Headbangerphil
North Bay 

The members of Delusional Mind would like to say thank you for a great 2007 and
we hope you and yours have the very best New Year!
We hope to see you all at our next show!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us tonight at Sidelines! We had a blast
and look forward to doing it all again as soon as possible!

DM

This message is for my sister and her wonderful husband, not to forget my 2 
nieces and my nephew: HAPPY NEW YEAR!  

With lots of love........

Coming soon, to a state near you

CCW

Be sure to come see us live tomorrow night at Sideline's Rock Live off Roswell
Rd tomorrow night!

DM

Online ticket sales for the show tonight have ended. See you at the show tonight!

DM

I forgot to sign that one too

dARTH

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me.  A 8 string Jackson 
flying V.

On the Second day of Christmas my true love gave to me.  Two Boogie Stacks and 
an 8 string Jackson flying V.

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me. Three g4 Processos, Two 
Boogie stacks and an 8 string Jackson flying V.

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.  Four vipers racing, 
Three G4 Processors, Two Boogie stacks and an 8 string Jackson flying V.  

On the Fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.  Jessica Biel!!!  Four 
vipers racing, Three G4 Processors, Two Boogie stacks and an 8 string Jackson 
flying V.

On the Sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.  Six groupies groping,  
Jessica Biel!!!  Four vipers racing, Three G4 Processors, Two Boogie stacks and 
an 8 string Jackson flying V.

On the Seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me.  Seven record Deals, 
Six groupies groping,  Jessica Biel!!!  Four vipers racing, Three G4 
Processors, Two Boogie stacks and an 8 string Jackson flying V. 

On the Eight day of Christmas my true love gave to me. 8 guitars endorsing, 
Seven record Deals, Six groupies groping,  Jessica Biel!!!  Four vipers racing, 
Three G4 Processors, Two Boogie stacks and an 8 string Jackson flying V. 

On the Ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me. 9 sold out concerts, 8 
guitars endorsing, Seven record Deals, Six groupies groping,  Jessica Biel!!!  
Four vipers racing, Three G4 Processors, Two Boogie stacks and an 8 string 
Jackson flying V. 

On the Tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.  Ten million Dollars, 9 
sold out concerts, 8 guitars endorsing, Seven record Deals, Six groupies 
groping,  Jessica Biel!!!  Four vipers racing, Three G4 Processors, Two Boogie 
stacks and an 8 string Jackson flying V. 

On the Eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me.  Eleven Star Wars 
movies, Ten million Dollars, 9 sold out concerts, 8 guitars endorsing, Seven 
record Deals, Six groupies groping,  Jessica Biel!!!  Four vipers racing, Three 
G4 Processors, Two Boogie stacks and an 8 string Jackson flying V. 

On the Twelfth day of christmas my true love gave to me.  Twelve cool Light 
Sabers, Eleven Star Wars movies, Ten million Dollars, 9 sold out concerts, 8 
guitars endorsing, Seven record Deals, Six groupies groping,  Jessica Biel!!!  
Four vipers racing, Three G4 Processors, Two Boogie stacks and an 8 string 
Jackson flying V. 

Delusional Mind wishes all their fans a delusional Christmas!

We'll see you at the shows this Thursday and Saturday!

DM

Tickets for the show on the 27th are on sale now on our site! Just click on the
Shop/Tickets link to the left to get yours. Tickets are $9 and will be waiting
for you at the door the night of the show!

DM

We added some more pics of the show on 11/24/07 to the gallery. Take a look,
then come see us in person on the 27th and 29th of this month!

DM

We have confirmed another show! We will be headlining the Heaven stage at the
Masquerade on Thursday December 27th! We will have tickets for sale on the site
soon!

Bob

We have added pics from the show on 11/24 to the show gallery. We also added a
video of us playing There And Back Again at that show. We changed over the video
page on this site to play the videos using youtube.

DM

Happy Birthday Dreah!!

From Bob, Kristi, Caine, and Tiffany

Love your music, hope to see ya'll soon. Uncle Tom says maybe you might need an 
artist for some album art. I would love to show you some of my work and maybe 
work through a session of yours. That's how it works for me, i feel it, it 
comes out, and by the way, doesn't GOD rock!!!!!!!!!!Peace my friends

Kevin DuBrow, front man for the eighties heavy metal band Quiet Riot, died in
his home in Las Vegas yesterday.
Quiet Riot was the first metal band to have a number 1 album on the charts with
the Slade cover "Cum on Feel the Noize" and "Bang Your Head ( Metal Health )"

Kevin DuBrow died at the age of 52.

DM

The action happens in 4.5 hours.. See you there!

DM

Just a reminder to come see us tomorrow night in Hell at the Masquerade! Tickets
are at the door. Be sure to mention you came to see us!

DM

The show on the 24th is in Hell at the Masquerade. Doors open at 7pm and be sure
to tell them you came to see us. We should have the stage around 9:30 to 9:45.
See ya there!!!!


DM

We've also picked up a show on Saturday the 24th at the Masquerade. We're not
sure which stage we'll be on yet, or what time we'll go on. There are no advance
tickets, just make sure to mention you're there to see us at the door!

DM

Just an FYI in case you missed the little bit of info on the left of the page:

We are currently booked to play at the Sidelines/Darkside (whichever name they
want to go by at the time) venue off Roswell Rd in Marietta on the 29th of
December. Ticket availability hasn't been worked out yet, but we'll let you know
as soon as we do.

We're also looking into doing a show between now and then, but nothing solid has
been lined up yet.

DM

Delusional Mind would like to thank all those men and women who put their lives
on the line in the name of protecting our freedom. Without the sacrifices you
have made, and continue to make, we would not live in a world where we are free
to listen to and produce our music without fear of oppression.

DM

You may need to refresh the page where you select either the show, reheasal, or
videos. That page changed and the old one in your browser's cache won't work
anymore.

Bob

There are no pictures in the show gallery.....

The Show gallery is back up and there are now pics of the November 2nd show up
as well.

Bob

The show image gallery is currently broken while I do some work on it.

Bob

Added some new pics of the October 13th show to the Image Gallery. We have more
which we'll add over time.

Enjoy!

DM

I've changed the way the media player works on the Music page. It will no longer
load when you first open that page. It now only loads if you choose to play a
song. I also dumbed down the way it works so it should also now work with
Internet Explorer. 

Bob

I'll be working on parts of the site today so if you see something broken,
that's why.

Bob

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us last night at the Masquerade. The set
was cut a bit short due to time constraints but we still had a blast.

DM

Delusional Mind will be performing tomorrow night at 10pm in Hell at the
Masquerade. We got a last minute booking. If you missed our previous shows or
are just looking for more DM, we'll see ya there!

DM

Final tally was 379 unique visitors to the site in October. That breaks the old
1 month record by 21 visitors! Here's looking forward to that number continuing
to grow as the band continues to progress!

DM

Here's hoping all our fans have a ROCKIN Halloween!

DM

In true form, I forgot to move the server to the UPS.. So I'll try again tonight..

Bob

The site may be down briefly tonight. I'm going to move the server onto a dinky
crap UPS just to have some kind of backup. The server has been running straight
off the line power for a month now since the main UPS died. Somehow we haven't
had so much as a blink in that time, but luck will only hold out for so long.

Bob

The site just broke a record! We are at 360 unique visitors this month. The
previous record for the most unique visitors in a single month was 358. We've
beat that by 2 and still have 2 days left in the month!

Bob

We just got hold of a batch of 190 pictures of the show on the 13th that Paul
from Manic took for us. Once we go through them and cherry pick the best, adjust
the colors and lighting as needed, etc, we'll throw them into the Image Gallery
for the show! Keep an eye on the site over the next several days. I'll be adding
them over the course of a week or more.

In other news, we got a lot of Edge Of Lunacy recorded yesterday. Once we record
the vocals, John's parts, and my bass part, we'll be much closer to releasing a
song never before available from the site. 

Bob

This just needs to be shared:

LFG

Bob

Consider this the final call if you want to get your hands on the old versions
of the songs on the Music page. As we get the new versions recorded and mastered
we will be releasing them on the site and pulling down the old versions that are
currently available. Once we pull them down they will likely not be available to
the public again from us.

DM

Ok I'll pull the old one down tonight and replace it with Edge of Lunacy and
possibly remove one of the other songs to place TABA.

If you have an objection to this you had better call me before 10pm tonight!


RAF

Agreed on putting up the live copy of TABA.

Bob

I say we take down the old copy of There and Back Again as its..well..old. and 
put up the live version of it. Im all about putting up Edge of Lunacy!

I say we take down all alone or day of rain and put up edge of lunacy.. It's a
song most of our fans have never heard unless they went to a show..

Bob

Posted 3 songs from our October 13th show at The Masquerade on our myspace site.
Give us some feedback!!!!


DM

What's this thing called love that you speak of?

I think the stone wall band photo kicks ass!!! I'm glad you set it to pop up
randomly.... I was going to suggest that you guys use that pic for a album
cover, flier, or something cause it is awesome!! And thanks to everyone for the
congrats.  Glad to see that I started a love confessional on the wall for a day
or two....LOL!!!
Angela

I wrote a little script to randomly select a pic each time the front page is
loaded. It will randomly select between the ocean of blood and the stone wall
band photos.

Bob

I LOVE MY HUSBAND!!! even though he didn't put our anniversary up here like
everyone else, it was 2 years on the 18th. It was also my birthday, so shame on
him twice I will spank him later (hehehe).


Phyllis

I can't believe I found a woman that will endure my attitude!!!!!
I Love My Wife!!!!

Congrats Angela and Ryan!!!!


RAF

Congrats and stuff.

RRE

I uploaded video of 2 of our songs from the show on the 13th to YouTube.

They can be seen at the following URLs:
Nameless - http://youtube.com/watch?v=5GCRmdrzTZ4
All Alone - http://youtube.com/watch?v=eSj2oZH7uyc

Bob

Grats guys!! 

I still find it hard to believe that Kristi and I have been together for over 5
years and married for over 3!

Bob

Today is our 2 year anniversary from when we started dating.... Wow how time
flies!! We have come through alot of ups and downs, like any couple, but I can't
wait to see what the future has in store for us!! Today also marks 5 months of
us being engaged, we are planning the big day in June 2008. That day too will be
here before we know it. I just wanted to share our celebration with our friends
and family and say it loud..... I LOVE RYAN!!!!
Angela

If you missed the show on October 13th at the Masquerade, or want to hear it
again, the audio from the video taken at the show is now playing 24/7 on both
radio stations accessible in the upper left corner of the site. The 2 cover
songs have been removed due to copyright issues. 

Enjoy!

DM

We hope everyone had fun yesterday at the Verus music fest. We were slated to
play in Hell but they moved us to Purgatory. We still managed to pull in a
decent crowd though. We should have some pics soon. Keep checking the site and
we'll post any new show dates we schedule.

DM

We've received our time slot at today's show. We'll be playing at 6:30pm today..
See you all at the show!

DM

Online ticket sales for the show on the 20th have ended. We look forward to
having a great time tomorrow!

DM

Just an FYI. We've been informed we have to turn in our tickets and money Friday
night. Since there would not be enough time to do the accounting for any web
sales on Friday, we'll be taking down the option to buy tickets on the site
tonight. So, if you want to get tickets via the web site, do it today!!

Bob

Absolutely!

Just mark Door for the pickup option, which right now is the only option due to
the time left. 

That, or see if one of the guys can meet up with you somewhere to get them. It's
$10 in person, $11 on the site (to cover paypal charges).

Bob

Hey,
Can I buy my tickets on line and Will Call them? I still don't have a final head
count.
Dana

We hit 4100 unique visits to the site today!

Bob

Hey!  I had to miss the show, but I know you were awesome....I have heard you 
practice before.  Can't wait to get to GA to see you sometime.  I think you 
should do a road trip to Sarasota, FL.  I would be there cheering you all on.  
I have to say the drummer is my favorite.  He gives me goose bumps. He is very 
cute too....
KAJ

Hey Bob,
thanks for fixing my post, I was afraid it would not work but wanted to try
anyway. The show kicked ass!
Dana

Also, the first set of pics and video from the show last night are available
under the image gallery link on the left of the page! Check em out!

Bob 

FYI, this wall was written by me. It does not understand BBcode. It's something
I've been thinking really hard about implementing, but I just don't have the
time to do it right now. In the mean time, I fixed your post so it will display
correctly.

Bob

Delusional Mind kicks ass!!!  Ya'll were awesome last night guys!

Delusional Mind would like to thank everyone who came out to party with us, and
cheer for us on our first show.

Remember that we have another show coming up next Saturday at the Masquerade, in
Hell this time! 

We'll have pictures and video (with really bad sound!) of the October 13th show
on the site soon.

DM

Russ,Bob,Rick,John and Ryan....You all Rocked Hard last night.

P.L. - Manic - Black -

I just left you guy's first show at the Masquerade and I gotta admit...
I had the slight hint of an erection!!!  
No seriously, you guys kicked my ass.  Great show!

Lt.

Don't forget to buy your tickets to see us at the Verus Music Festival on
October 20th! Tickets are $11 on the site and $12 at the door! Orders are still
being taken for both shipping and will call(door) options. The shipping option
will go away as of Sunday night!



Bob

Last day to buy your tickets on the site at a discount. After that it's $12 at
the door! I'll be removing them tonight after our last rehearsal before the show
so buy any and all you need while you can!

Bob

Just 2 more days until the show! If you're looking for tickets you can get them
by clicking the link on the left side of this window called "Shop/Tickets".
Payments are accepted via paypal and don't require a paypal account. With so
little time left before the show they are only available on a "Will Call" (pick
em up at the door) basis. Price is $7 on this site and $12 the day of the show!
The option to buy them on the web site will expire Friday night so get em now!

Bob

There was an error in the merchandising system that was preventing orders for
tickets to the show on the 13th from going through. This error was introduced
Sunday evening. It has been corrected. Make sure if you are ordering that you
check the box to pick it up at the door! If you attempted to order a ticket for
this show and got an error, please try it again!

Bob

Cool new pics! And i can't help myself, I gotta say it, DAMN your drummer is
hott!! ;)
amv

Added some new rehearsal pics to the Image Gallery

Bob

hey bob, i have tried to send you my bio TWICE now i hope it worked this time
raj

It's a Southpark closet!

KF

wait.....is this a literal or figurative closet???

Phyl

Bob you were the one who said Shaggy was in the closet.....so where is he????

Phyl

But.. He's not IN the closet..

Bob

Mr. Shaggy you have to come out of the closet.....

KF

Guilty!! I just wanted to write some funny stuff to make the wall lighthearted
again. Looks like it worked.

Anyway will somebody let Shaggy out already??

Phyl

Nope, he's still locked in there..

You guys need to start signing posts.. I assume that was Phyllis since the post
came from her house.

Bob

Did Shaggy come out of the closet yet? 

NO FAIR BOB! How did you know it was me? I was trying to be inconspicuous, 
i even sent it from my cell! Damn, your good!              ang 

No putty tat's around here Angela.. I think Scooby got rabid and ate em..

Bob

It's amazing what a difference a complete band makes isn't it?

Bob

CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG...I did not want to say antyhing yesterday 
LOL...Sorry had to do it. You guys sounded GREAT the other day. Enjoyed 
listening to the set. The songs have come alive since the last time I heard 
them.

M

No shaggy..... But, I thought i saw a putty tat..... 

I think he's in the closet. He won't come out.

Bob

I thought I saw Shaggy at some point... but I guess not :(

Ya, I didn't see Scooby running around anywhere in here..

Bob

*POOF* is good I like *POOF* I also like WHAM! and POW! and ZOINKS! although
ZOINKS! wouldn't apply in this case.

*POOF*

We're a metal band. We're supposed to be pissed at the world.. I mean WTF?!?!

This is the last band image I'm doing anytime soon. I'm going to work on getting
Ryan and Russ's head shots on the band page changed to the new ones, but that's
about all the graphics work I'm gonna do in the next month or 2. I have too much
work to do on mixing and mastering songs, and I've painfully neglected my family
way too much lately in the interest of the band. 

Now if it's just live action BS shots then that's doable. Like fodder for the
image gallery. We need more pictures of Russ and Ryan in there.

You may have noticed I added the show dates to the link bar on the left. It's
just informative. I realized we had no place on the site to post them other than
the shop. I may make a read only graffiti wall page to post show dates on or
something. Maybe write another script that will pull the info out of the
merchandising system to an unsecured page. But for now, there they are.

Bob

Any suggestion for something diffrent besides crossing the arms I am up for.  
In fact I would love some suggestions.  We should try a bunch of different 
things.

RRE

K. Thanks. And i dont know why that message re posted, sorry.  ang 

Phyllis, Thought u might of sent that shirt back my way with Rick Sun or 
tonight. Could you send it soon so i can swap it out for something else that 
way we still have time to get it done before the show....thanks.  :) 
 
Ang 

Ang
I have to pick it up and then bring it to you. Maybe I can do it tomorrow night.

RAF

Phyllis, Thought u might of sent that shirt back my way with Rick Sun or 
tonight. Could you send it soon so i can swap it out for something else that 
way we still have time to get it done before the show....thanks.  :) 
 
Ang 

that's the address...I copied it from the website.

K~

Or is that just how the myspace URL is listed??
Ang

Karen,
On the flier, where the myspace address is printed, it cuts the 'delusionalmind'
part of the myspace address off at 'm', the rest of the word 'mind' is not
there.  Is that just how it came across looking on the email attachment? I took
the size down from the default of 150% to a normal size of 100%, but that didn't
fix the way it appeared on the attachment file....WTF??
Ang

I think you all look mad at the world...and cross arms always give a negative image.

Delusional Wives - check your emails.  I emailed the fliers in pdf format.  

K~

I didn't make any changes to our position. I just cut us out of the background,
so however you're leaning is how you were leaning when the pic was taken. Notice
I'm leaning to the left.

Lemme know if you find a river or ocean of blood. That would save me a lot of
graphics work.

I kinda like the V, it helps to draw attention to the edges. Human tendency is
to focus on the center of an image, but with the larger images on the edges it
helps to spread the focus to the edges. You end up seeing all the members and
not just the guys in the middle.


Bob

I Am Crooked again ;o(  We make a V.  My arms are pale :o(.  V is for Making 
very lots of money.  I thought I was standing straight. :o( My Tea is Hot :o)
Maybe if we actually stand in a river of blood on a day when the clouds are red 
we can take a bunch of pictures.  Just a Thought.........

Stuff,
RRE

Hmmm...I wonder if the UPS unit I prop my feet on while in the office 
works...it's an APC 650...whatever that means - ha!

The flyer is done!  Looks good.  I'll try to email it to everyone.  You can 
pick up copies from John at work tomorrow or stop by the house.

K~

It's not. That was a $1200 UPS when it was new. If it's dead I'm not sure how
we'll replace that functionality. We can't really have the server running
unprotected for very long, but we're in no position to cough up $500 or more to
get an equivalent unit.

Bob

That does not sound very good.

J

The batteries in the main UPS that the servers run on failed last night and
cooked all night long. It released a horrible smell in the basement. I had to
down all the servers this morning and take the UPS out of service. All the
servers are running on just the house power right now, so expect a little flaky
behavior as our power likes to flicker a lot. It may have killed the UPS as
well, I'll have to investigate that more later. 

Bob

The new band image is up. Refresh the browser on the main page. A larger version
is also in the image gallery. I may tweak it a little but that's basically it.

Bob

Bob,
Put the Oct. 20th tickets on the Merch page.

RAF

I'm dense some times. They're camouflage, of course you can't find them!

Bob

I think we were going to use the new picture.  And My Camouflage sheet joke was 
totally missed.

RRE

Well, I was planning on working on the new picture tonight when I get home as
well. What takes me 8 hours to do at work takes about 30 minutes there.

Bob

ok, so what I gather from that dissertation is that we'll go with the old photo
for the flier...like it or not.

K~

Any solid color is usable. It's best if it's different than what we're wearing,
or our skin/hair color. Black is good only because dark hair is easier to make
look natural with it, but if I'm placing our image against a bright background
it can look a little unnatural. Also since we tend to wear black shirts it makes
pulling the edges of the shirt a little more complicated. A bright green or blue
would be really good for sharp boundaries on our bodies, but hair would be more
difficult to blend. Each color has benefits and drawbacks. In the end I would
likely pick black for most things.

Camouflage would be a bad choice since it's not a uniform color. That's the
problem with taking it against the house, the shadows from the siding, the
angles on the garage doors, etc, all generate edges I have to work out of the
picture.

Bob 

Where is the black back drop?  Anybody got black sheets or a lot of black 
fabric maybe some black spray paint?  Bob, is black the best color for you to 
work with?  I had some camouflage sheets but I can't find them :o)

RRE

Slowly. I have to do graphics work between calls and even then it's over the
internet, which crawls.. I'm still working on isolating us from the background
since we took the pic against a bad backdrop.

Bob

The Cheapest I found online to get silkscreen shirts made was 5.00 but you had 
to get 25 of them.  So the total was like 180.00.  One of the silk screen kits 
I saw was 125.00.  So at first either way it will cost close to the same but 
the kit will be cheaper in the long run depending how much the shirts cost.

RRE

Bob - how's the picture coming?

K~

Phyllis,
So obviously I have never had anything embrodered. But that makes perfect sense 
about the ribbed tank top not working. Big fat DUH on my part!! Sooooo i'll be 
shopping this week. Hope that will still give time to get it done if I can get 
it to you this weekend, or Friday, if they jam.
Ang

I checked out some prices to have shirts screened you can get quotes online.Per
shirt the cheapest I found with just the name was $17. 

I also checked out the self screen printing online. It's fairly easy, a little
time consuming as far as drying in between colors and stuff but I could do it 
initially if you think it's better.


PMF

So it was suggested to me that we could try screen printing our own shirts.  We 
could get a Screen printing kit and stuff.  

RRE

Karen we made a mistake on the ticket price the actual price is $6 from a band
member $7 on the site and $12 at the door.
John was supposed to tell you yesterday.

RAF

Karen,
Check your DM webmail. I sent you a message about this weekend and next.
Ang

Uh, Bob...why is the ticket price $7 on the site?!?!?!?!  I thought you all said
$8 on the site, plus charges, and $12 at the door...WTF?!

K~

I found the home button :o) 

Good, so IE 7 apparently pops up a notice to let you bypass. I must have missed
it yesterday. That's at least acceptable. I added a blurb to that launch page
about it. 

I don't use Microsoft software anymore, so my knowledge on the newer crap is
limited to what I do on other people's machines. 

The shirts are not yet available because we need to, as a band, decide on what
designs we're going with. The notes about embroidered items is there as a
general notice that they take longer to ship than normal merchandise. 

The links on the left refresh every 5 minutes to update the mail counter for
you. If you've logged into webmail before you'll get a notice under the Webmail
link that tells you how many mails or new mails you have. If it came up blank
then either IE had an issue, or either your connection or mine went down
momentarily. Service here has been a little spotty lately due to road
contruction.. I haven't had any major outages, but it's gone down for a minute
or 2 here and there.

I fixed the mispelled word.. Thanks! I type fast and screw up often..

Your browser should have a Home button. If you're looking for a link to take you
back to the main Delusional Mind page just click on the Delusional Mind logo at
the top of the page.

Bob

Ok, so when I clicked on shop tickets it had the stuff talking about stuff.  I 
clicked on the Enter shop button. and it was white page.  Then a window popped 
up asking if I noticed the thing on the top left hand of the screen.  I did so 
I clicked on it then I clicked display blocked content.  Afterwards it sent me 
back to the Main page which I then repeated steps 1 through 4 but this time it 
went directly to the page for the tickets.  

Where is the thing for the shirts?  It has a paragraph talking about the 
emroidery on the shirts but no shirt pictures.  

The word signing is spelled wrong. In the first splash page about the whole 
security thing.

Also the links to the left dissapeared about ten minutes ago and I had to 
restart Internet Explorer.

Where is the Home Button?

Stuff,
RRE

I added a launch page to get to the Shop. It will detail the issues with our
self signed certificates and explains how to get around it in Internet Explorer. 

I made the instructions purely from memory from when I did it yesterday on
Russ's computer, so if someone with IE 7 (Russ?) could test it and make sure
those instructions are correct, it would be helpful. 

I looked up the free CA (certificate authority) and while they work, they are
not acknowledged by most browsers as being a trusted authority so users will get
exactly the same issues as they already get with our self signed certificates. 

I looked into Verisign, and It's $400 a year, $1000 for 3 years, to have them
sign our certificates. 

Bob 

We are taking a new band picture on Sunday.... That is all.

Kick ass job today Angela!!!!!

RAF

The merchandise page is up and running now. Tickets can be purchased online.


RAF

Anything for the most kick ass band in town!! Nothing like a unrehearsed
commercial to get the word out. I was just calling the station to see who i
could  contact about making an announcement about the show and the DJ said "go
ahead, we'll record one now and i never do this, its a one time thing". So i
just started talking.... What are the chances?? Too cool!! You guys are just
meant to be famous!! Rock on!!!!!!
Ang

Angela you RULE!!!!!

Have Ryan make you something special for dinner.

RRE

The Merchandise page will be up and running by 7pm to get your tickets!! 

PMF

What Picture?

I'll confirm the picture today when we go to get the tickets and post it later.

RAF

I think we are taking pictures this Sunday.

RRE

So...I guess we'll be using the same picture for the flyer??

K~

Don't forget your mic on Sunday Russ. I guess I'll have to use my wireless so I
can share John's mic.... I'll make double sure to brush my teeth John...and I
won't belch on the mic.


RAF

I want to record the Rehearsal Sunday so we can replace the ones on MYSPACE.

Stuff,
RRE

Hey Bob..... We get the tickets tomorrow.

RAF

Ok guys. I need to know when we get our hands on tickets. The merchandising
system is ready to go. All I need is product to ship.

Bob

I forgot my password to mine ;o(

RRE

I'm sure John can come up with a password for me - it's not hard.

K~

Also, Rick, John, and Ryan. Get with your wives and find out what they want as
their password on their email accounts. Write em down and bring it over tonight
and I'll create the accounts this weekend.

Bob

Guys, just a reminder to not post people's email addresses on this wall or any
other public forum. You're basically asking every spammer on the planet to rape
that address. I have masked the address below. If you need it let me know Rick..

Bob

Russ.... OK

RAF

Rick, I need you to Email Paul from Manic and tell him the Email to the guy for 
the show on the 20th.  His Email is XXXXXXX@XXXXXXXXXXXXX.  

Thanks and stuff
RRE

Just a reminder of one of Metals lost heroes......

Clifford Lee Burton
Born 2/10/1962
Died 9/27/1986


He is missed but still remembered.


RAF

    Delusional Mind at the Maquerade on October 20th for the Verus Music Festival.
Ticket sales will be announced very soon....


RAF

Bob,
The tickets are coming to me for the 20th show. I made contact with the promoter
through the wonders of e-mail. He called me today and we are confirmed for the
20th.... We should have the tickets in a couple of days according to him.

On another note I need to talk to you Bob... call me tonight on your way
home....it's important.



RAF

We'll stop selling them with a shipping option about 4 days before the show, and
pull the door pickup option the day of the show. I've built the merchandising
system to be fairly robust in that regard. I have the interface done and now I'm
working on the interface to paypal. With any luck I'll be able to launch it
tomorrow.

Bob

I added more videos to my page.  One of them Rick will like especially.  It is 
Little Wing.

RRE

Ok. I may be able to go. I will have to see about a sitter since i will already
be getting one for the show that following night and now for the 20th also....
By the way guys....WOO-HOO on the confirmation for that show!!!!!!
Ang

No, the Friday night before the show...October 12.

K~

Karen, Your not talking about tomorrow night, right?
Ang

Bob - I just thought of something...yeah, I know...it hurt a little!  If we are
selling tickets on the website, we'll need a cut off time or something.  If we
are all at the show and someone buys a ticket right before the show, how will we
know?  We can take a laptop, but not sure we'll have a connection.  Any thoughts...?

K~

Don't worry Russell, they'll be lots of girls at the show!  And, if memory
serves me...alcohol and long-haired, hot musicians is all it takes for some of
us girls!  Just ask John...:-) 

I've got one of the flyers done, just waiting on the new picture.  I did full
and half sizes for the ones w/a picture.  I still need to do the one for the
tables for Friday night (just words).  Who will put these on the tables?  I
would love to, but since John works til 8:00 and I have two small kiddos...I'm
sort of limited.  But, I'm not opposed to see if I can work out something...just
need a partner.

K~

As far as the 8 girls, most of them are taken. And the "they have friends" thing
was more on the lines of word of mouth so more people find out about the show.
But hey, ya never know, someone may bring along a single lady, and you know us
gals have a weakness for musicians!!! ;) 
Ang

I'm poor so I can't pay for pictures.. Though I'll try to get Kristi to take
some with our camera. 

Also, John, we need to know when we're getting the tickets, and don't make any
official announcements about it until it's confirmed with the venue. They still
show another show scheduled that day.

The merchandising system is almost ready.. I have to write in some more sanity
checks, and write the program to handle payment notifications from paypal, then
it will be ready.


Bob

Ricks brain could possibly be bleeding.  In on direction he is direct line of 
fire from my amp when I hit the solo button.  In the other he is hearing me 
Sing through the PA.  In the other he has his beautiful chainsaw distortion.  
Then finally he has the Almighty Snare.  So it is quite possible that at the 
end of each jam his brain could be bleeding.  Along with mine of course for 
trying to do laps in my room.  

I think we should build a speaker like the one in Back To The Future and see 
what we can break with sound.  

I am going to have the same guy who took pics for Manic take pics for us on the 
13th.  It will cost 40 bucks.  

My room isn't cold today
  
Did I hear someone say 8 girls want to come to the show and they have friends?
Lets all remember the Russell Referal Program. :o)
 
Stuff,
RRE

Its official. We are on for the gig on Oct 20th at the Masquerade!


J

Well, Russ nixed the new pic we had of him so we're going to take a new group
photo this weekend.

Bob

Thanks Rick. I guess gals with black hair can still have 'blond moments', ha,ha!!
I think the ladies had thought it would be good to wait till the weekend prior
to the show, the 6th or 7th, to put out fliers. But i'm sure we are all up for
putting them out whenever. We had kinda felt like putting them out too early,
people may forget, esp if they don't make plans that far in advance AND that the
fliers may get ripped down, rained on, etc..... But you guys just let us know
what you think about it. I have around 8 girls at work who want to come and, of
course, they all have friends, so getting fliers in hand to give people would be
great.... Last i heard Karen was waiting on a new pic before she printed,
hopefully one where Ryan is tobogganless, lol!! I'll send my shirt with Ryan
Friday. Thanks.
Ang

Thanks for the well wishes Angela...
The initials are as follows....

RRE - Russ
Bob - Bob
KF  - Kristi
K~  - Karen
J   - John
RAF - Rick
PMF - Phyllis
RAJ - Ryan
Ang - Angela

That should clear everything up!!!!! (HEHEHE)

RAF

Angela... you can give your shirt to Ryan to give to Rick on Friday I will get
it done ASAP. 

As for hitting the pavement we should probably do it sooner rather than later
right?? So maybe this weekend if the fliers are ready? Just a thought.

PMF

OH YEA my top 10
0.delusional mind
1.TOOL
2.perfect circle
3.mudvayne
4.deftones
5.rush
6.pantera
7.kill switch engage
8.S.O.T.D.
9.korn
10Primus

RAJ

dude pay no attention to ANGELA.......... she's new at this and doesn't quite
know all initials yet HA HA, but ill get her up to SPEED
RAJ

And Rick, i hope you are not really wounded. Im not being unsympathetic....i
assumed you were just kidding about the brain bleed....
Ang 

Rick, could you stop bleeding long enough to ask Phyllis what i need to do about
getting my shirt done.....Thanks! :)
Ang

I tried that and I tripped on a guitar chord and hit my head against the music 
stand and now I have a concussion.   

So now my brain is bleeding and I am still cold.

RRE

If you run around your room in circles you wont be cold anymore.


J

It is cold in my room.  

RRE

That's cool.  I didn't mean to do it now, just wanted to know if it was
possible.  We'll do the book at the show and get folks names and email address
for future reference.  I'd say no to the wall updates.  People don't like spam.
 If they want to know what is going on with the band on a regular/daily basis,
they can check the wall.  You could send something like a monthly
update/newsletter type thing to everyone on the list telling them what shows are
coming up or what's going on in general.  Just my 2 cents.

K~

I can set up a mailing list server on this site. The software for it already
exists, but it's something we will need to implement after the show. Right now
I'm expending all available time on pictures and writing the code to support the
merchandising system.

I would say we go ahead and do the book at the show and once I get the server
running we can manually put in those addresses. I could even set it up so the
graffiti wall updates can be sent out on a weekly basis or something if we want.

Top ten:

1. Iron Maiden
2. Dream Theater
3. Cliff era Metallica
4. Rush
5. Slayer
6. Megadeth
7. Randy era Ozzy
8. Pantera
9. King Diamond (the music, not the voice)
10. Marcus Miller (because he's a bad ass, not my style of bass, but bad ass
none the less)

Bob

Removed several posts at the request of John and Rick, and with my concurrence.

Bob

My Top 10:

1.Dream Theater
2.Iron Maiden
3.Megadeth
4.Metallica(Cliff Era)
5.Rush
6.Dragonforce
7.Yes
8.Van Halen(DLR Era)
9.Al DiMeola
10.King Crimson


J

The Delusional Wives talked about a mailing list.  We are going to have a book
or something for folks to sign up at the show. Bob, can you do something like
that also on the website?  I know Excel pretty well.  We use it to do budgets at
work - lots of formulas, linking, etc.  So, I'll be glad to do it.  Actually,
Access is a database (Microsoft).  I haven't used it in years, but might try to
figure it out again if Excel isn't the best program to use.  Really depends on
how we manipulate the info.  

Top 10...:  #1 - Bruce Springsteen - The BOSS!!
Tom Petty
Sara McLachlan
Metallica
Audioslave
Stevie Nicks
Melissa Ethridge
Pink Floyd

or 8...

K~

Actually I can't say I have a top ten... I do Know that Jimi Hendrix and Stevie
Ray Vaughn were the top 2... Eric Clapton is one of my all time favorites...
Damnit man I can't say top ten at all I like everything blues, rock , and metal.

RAF

So I found another site with some cool info.  I first went there to read more 
about stage presence but there is all this other stuff.  It had lots of cool 
ideas on promoting the gig and stuff after the show.  One of the things I got 
out of it was a mailing list.  I plan to promote the Delusionalmind.com alot 
and all but it couldn't hurt to have a  Mailing list as well.  If anyone knows 
how to use excel we could use it to make a database of the emails so were not 
double emailing people.  Below is the link to the site. So Thoughts anyone?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/startingout/stagep01.shtml

Stuff,
RRE

Must be a Russ post.... but as for my top ten.

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Stevie Ray Vaughn
3. Rush
4. AC/DC
5. Dream Theater
6. Megadeth
7. Slipknot
8. OTEP ( Thanks Russ )
9. Metallica ( Cliff Burton ERA )
10.Journey

RAF

List your top Ten:

1. Dream Theater
2. Outworld
3. Korn
4. Pantera
5. Skid Row
6. Iron Maiden
7. Slipknot
8. Megadeth
9. Metallica
10. Otep

Phyllis, I got my tank. Should I send it via Ryan to give to Rick to give to
you?? And when should it be done with the embroadering? (is that how you spell
it? lol!! Surely not!!) Anyways, I think the plan was to be able to wear it when
Karen & I hit the pave on the 6th....thanks.
Ang

I liked the other one better.  I am crooked and I am making a funny face.
We need to do it again.

RRE

Yes it is difficult to get clean.  But here recently I have been using herbal 
essence's 2 in 1 shampoo.  

On another note.  In the Hal Leanord book for Ride the lighting they have the 
tempo at 184 bpm for Creeping Death.  Power Tab and Guitar Pro have it set at 
200 bpm.  

Either we have to take the wall of doom death down or we are going to have to 
count out the begining.  I am fine with either but I don't want to guess 
anymore on where to play.

RRE  

Well I'm most of the way done now. I'm trying to get your hair clean at this point.

Bob

Ok then,  well instead of working forever on it then we should take another 
one.  Anyone got a Black sheet?  Or we could paint your hallway black.  :O)

RRE

There was only 1 for the front page that is usable.. There was only 1 for the
band page that has any hope but whoever took the shots cut off the top of your
hairline so you may have a flat top.. I'm still working on isolating your image
for the front page. As I said, it's really slow work over the net, and you have
kinda frizzy hair, even more so than mine, so that's really hard to get blended
out of a light background. We need to start doing pics in front of something black..

Bob

Are my pics Useable?

RRE

I'm working on it.. It's a little more involved than cut and paste. Doing
graphics work over the internet is slow and painful.

Bob

Hmmmm... well I dont think that would increase our chances  for us getting a
second gig there.


J

I'm guessing peeing on the people in front is out?

Bob

Define "be an ass between songs".

OK, ill try to remember to turn off the time stamp.

J

Also, John, next time you're going to take band pics, turn off the timestamp in
the camera. Most of the pics you sent me are not usable because of it.

Bob

Unfortunately, that's about all I can do while playing.. I plan to be an ass
between songs though =)

Bob

Yes we are going to do a banner for sure. It will be rather large and I dont
think that we will have the time to have one ready for the Oct 13th show but it
is something that will happen down the road. 

On the whole "image" thing. I think we are ok with what we wear, its more of our
presence on the stage. Standing in one spot like a bump on a log staring at our
fretboards is going to lose the interest of the crowd no matter how intense the
music is. 

J

do you think we should somehow create a banner or something to go behind us on 
the stage?? just a random thought
RAJ

I get what Russ is trying to convey in his message. Wear what you want, ( I will
be wearing a West Coast Chopper shirt with the sleeves removed of course and my
normal attire as in some old ratty jeans ). Just when you are on the stage make
your presence known by playing to the audience not for the audience. I myself as
well as John are going to be back and forth on the stage and playing with the
crowd while we play. Edge of Lunacy is gonna be fun ( I think Russ should tell
the audience to form a circle in the front and let the mosh pit begin ) John and
I will be moshing as well. I may not be as theatrical with the head movements
because my head may separate from my neck due to previous injury.

The whole idea is for the audience to have a great time while we have a great
time. The more we put into our performance the more people will tell their
friends about us. It's the same as when me, John and Ryan went to see
DragonForce and Kill Switch Engage, Chimaira was there also. Chimaira's bass
player was to say the least a hefty sized guy. He didn't run back and forth
across the stage but he was in the audiences face most of the show. ( I'm not
saying that you should do this Bob ) But I remember the fact that he was up
front and playing to the audience. DragonForce was all over the place on stage
and had excellent showmanship. Everyone in the band including the drummer was
pushing the audience to join in and have fun with them. Kill Switch Engage was
the same way. The singer was involved with the audience as much as the band.

Take every concert you have ever been to and remember how the bands made you
feel at that time. This is what we need to pull out of the audience, we want
them to walk away saying to themselves... Those guys kicked ass what a great
show did you the the skinny fucker when he was playing that solo.... how the
hell did he get his fingers to bend that way? And OMG the Bass play was all over
the neck of that bass... how did he do that with no frets?

This is what I expect people to be saying to us when we walk off that stage on
the 13th. 


RAF

I was totally planning on wearing that.  What if the panties were red instead?

All I am saying it is something we should think about and that I am more 
concerned about presence as a whole not just what we wear.  I would like to 
play out a lot.  There are a lot of bands out there who have great music.  The 
ones who put on the best shows get more shows. Not neccesarily the ones who 
have the better music.  Not everyone in our audience will be a musicians so 
they won't care about the music as much.  When I started playing guitar I 
wasn't listening to the music as much as I thought the band was cool.  I was 
playing for years before I noticed the music more.  Anyways I didn't want this 
to some big drawn out thing but I thought it was something everyone should keep 
in mind.  
We need to own the stage.    

Stuff,
RRE    

Don't wear pink panties with purple polka dot stockings and it won't too much of
a cluster bomb...

Bob

Metallica had an image when they had cliff.  Image can be a lot of things.  
It's not being a sell out.  If you want people to listen to our music then they 
need to enjoy it visually and not be a clusterbomb of different directions.

RRE

Yes on all 3 prices, though we need to downplay the door price because we want
people to buy from us so we get our tiny pittance of a cut. We get nothing from
the door sales. 

As far as image, I'm going up there, wearing my normal clothes (shirt and
jeans), and playing bass. Part of my idea of metal is to not have an "image"..
That's too close to being a sell out.. See Metallica post Cliff for an example
of focusing on your image and not the music. The rest of the guys can wear what
they want.

Bob

Good advice Russell!!  John thought I was nuts when I mentioned the band's
"image." (Luv ya Sweetie!)  Not that he didn't listen - I think he thought I was
talking about having some gimmick, which I wasn't. Just need to make a statement
and grab everyone's attention.  What you wear, how you interact with the
audience, and all that makes a huge difference to success!  You have to OWN the
stage and the audience!  I'm going to read more about all that and the
management of a band just we aren't caught off guard.  

I don't mean to preach or act like I know everyting, because I don't!!!  Just
trying to help!  Image is a lot in any business, especially in the public eye.

So on the prices...We want to show all three prices??  
K~

Ok so what image does our music portray... I myself perceive my image as the
destroyer of worlds.(hehehe)


RAF

I want everyone to take a second to think about stage presence.  Below is a 
link to an article I found on it.  Unfortunately we can't depend on our music 
alone.  The main thing I got out of the article so far was everyone needed to 
be going for the same image and the image needs to match the music.

http://www.catch-22productions.com/stagepresence.html

RRE

Karen, tickets at the door are $12.00 the other prices you have are correct. We
are going to take another photo soon...I think.... The guys need to be coming up
with ideas for it. I already have an idea but I need to run it past everyone else.

Bob.. you need to specify on the shop page that the ticket price is 8 dollars
and 1 dollar processing fee that way there is no confusion by the varying ticket
prices.


RAF 

To clarify, tickets are $8 in person, $9 on the website, and how much at the
door...$8?  Or do we not worry about the door price?  I'll put this on the flyer.

K~

I was told that there is going to be a Fourth band.  So our set may be back to 
30 or 40 minutes.  

RRE

Delusional Mind is pleased to announce our first show will be at the Masquerade
on October 13th. Details are available on the Masquerade website. Ticket price
is $8 in advance if bought in person, $9 (including processing fees) through the
web site. I will launch the merchandising system in the next day or so to
facilitate ticket sales.

Doors open at 7pm.

Come cheer us on!

Bob

So I just got the Definate word on the show on the 13th and we are good to go.  
So no worries about that and stuff.  How are we going to build the cages?

RRE

The Delusional Wives decided to be hitting the pavement on Saturday, October 6, 
with the flyers.  I think I have all the comments incoporated - just need the 
new band photo.  We'll have the full size sheets and the smaller one to put on 
the tables at the Masquarde on Friday, as Russ suggested.  We also talked about 
doing a half size one to leave with some places. Bob, can you have the picture 
ready this week so I can start printing/copying it next week?  I'll post more 
about where all we talked about posting them.  I'm at work and I think our 
server doesn't like this server...

K~

Practice Tuesday night a 7:30 P.M.!!!! We are going to go untill around 9:30 to
10 depending on what time Russ gets there. If he gets there around 8:30 then we
go to 10. If he gets there at 8:15 we stop a little earlier so we don't wipe out
the kids school activities. We need to set a schedule for either Friday Night or
Saturday night depending on Russ' practice with Manic.

RAF

Believe me you would not want me to be on drugs.  Either one or two things 
would happen.  

Situation A,  I would probably convince myself I was invincible or a Jedi or 
both and I would be atempting to stop Semi Trucks with my mind.  Or end up in a 
battle on a distant desert planet and I would go to war with just a Neon bulb.

Situation B, I would become completely insane and The band would have to keep 
me in a cage with a Mic, a Guitar, lunchables, and some dog food.

Either way it would be a disaster.

Stuff,
RRE

I'm just getting into the swing of reading the postings on the wall...better
late than never...lol! Read about a weeks worth, think that brings me up to
speed on what's going on. Ryan tells me the "guy version" of the details, but
now I know specifics. See you ladies at 1. Looking forward to helping out. You
guys sounded awesome last night. And Phyllis, it was nice to meet you yest.
Ang

I'll highlight both sites.  It was a draft for comments.  I also thought about
adding wording about how to actualy buy the tickets - on the web and at the
door.  Russell mentioned doing a smaller flyer to put at at the Masquerade the
night before - good idea.  It would just be wording, no picture.  Speaking of
which, when will the new picture be ready, Bob?

Russell, Dude...share the drugs!! LOL!!

K~

How about hardwood flooring?  and dirt colored carpets until the staimakers 
unlearn there ways of the stainmaking.  Which could be a long time.  I spent 4 
years in Staimaker's Anonymous.  I met some interesting types there.  A lot of 
people dressed up like the cat in the hat and various other mess making 
creatures.  You know, Ogres, Gremlins, Dragons, Trolls, and bored Heavy Metal 
Superstars.  

Stuff,
RRE 

Bob I just listened to the mix, the kick drum is way too low. Bring it up and we
should be gtg. The bass and guitars are pretty much equal in levels.
Over all the lower end of the drums need to come up some and it will be good.


RAF  

Karen the flier looks really good. Bob wants the actual web site to be
highlighted. I say highlight both sites that way they both get the attention.


RAF

Ok, 1:00 is cool.  I left a copy of the flyer there for the guys to give their
opinion.  I know they want to change out the picture.  We might need to add more
wording - not sure.

See ya tomorrow.

K~

Well, the guys usually don't get together until later on, like 5:30 or so.  That
won't work because it's too late.  1:00 is good I think.  That ought to give us
plenty of time.  I have to clean a little too, but I have given up putting
things where they belong for the next few years.  Besides, the more crap Tiffany
piles in the floor, the cleaner it keeps the carpet.  Of course, the carpet was
already beyond hopeless way before I moved in, so it doesn't matter much.  Next
time we get carpet I want it to be dirt colored or something!

Anyway, I did manage to get both car seats in my car better than I thought, so
we won't have to take the van after all.  As long as no one else has to sit in
the backseat we are okay.  If so, they might have to go either on top or in the
trunk, LOL.

KF

One day I will be a Billionaire and I will buy Hawaii and DM will use it for a 
really big Rehearsal space.

Stuff,
RRE

Let's see when the guys are getting together and set the time around them. 
However, 1:00 is probably good.  I'm open...just trying to clean house as Dreah
drags every thing out that I put up! haha!

Happy Birthday to Dale!  Wow...John and I were in Hawaii this time last
year...woohoo!  Can't wait to go back!!

K~

I am already a step ahead of ya.  There is a on the floor vocal processor that 
would have compression and other weird things.  It is made by digitech and John 
is looking into it.  It is 199.99 on Musicians Friend.  I don't know if it will 
sound any good but it might be enough to get started.  The other Vocal 
Processors I saw started at 500.00.   That is a lot of Crispy Chicken 
sandwiches.  

I am working on memorizing the completely insane lyrics to There And Back Again
 
Stuff,
RRE

Ask him if there is a compressor for vocals only. If there is find out how much
one would cost.

RAF

If you can figure how to use the compressor that is suppose to help alot with 
voclas according to the studio guy here at Ken Stanton

RRE

The levels were set right... he wasn't clipping anything on the mixer and when
we played it back it sounded really good.. I also said to call me when you got
ready to do the mixing so I could show you the right tracks to mix...so much for
listening.


RAF

I sang way less harder when I did the last takes on sunday.  I am not cupping 
the mike. My hand is a the bottom the whole time.  It might be the Filter 
thingy.

RRE

You guys need to record the vocals for After Me again. I sat down to mix the
song last night and while Russ's voice was great, you overdrove the crap out of
either the mike, or the mixer, so they're unusable..

The clipping didn't occur in the computer, so it had to have been at the mixer
or the mic.

Russ, don't sing so hard and don't cup the mike, and let someone other then Rick
set the levels!!

Bob

Happy Birthday to you!!!
Happy Birthdy to you!!!
Happy Birthday dear Dale!!!
Happy Birthday to you!!!

(Imagine it sung with a kind of Hetfield meets Sebastion Bach voice)

Ok, Tonight while John is recording his part to After me I want to get a new 
picture of me.  
Also what are we doing tonight?  
If we want to record any vocals we want to do it before we do the set.  
Which I do think we should do the set tonight maybe twice.  We could probably 
get the All Alone Idea done real quick.  
Then maybe do the set a couple of times.  
I think we are going to have an hour to play on the 13th.     

Stuff,
RRE

Well, maybe around lunch time, like 12:30 or 1:00?

KF

Oh, I guess we need to determine a time...

K~

LOL!!  You go Kristi!!  I don't see how folks survive these days without
driving!  (Didn't she drive before you met her?!)  

Ok, so it sounds like it's my house for tomorrow? Kids and all.  I'll have my
two here.  Hopefully, Ryan will check the board and let Angela know.  If not,
John and I will get in touch with them/her. I've got a draft of a flyer for the
show on the 13th.  John said it looked cool.  I can print it out and bring it
over this evening so you all can see it.  Then, if there are any
comments/suggestions from ya'll, we can incorporate them. I kept it simple and
to the point.  

To catch up on other comments:  Thanks for the anniversary comments!  And what a
first year it's been! Looking forward to the rest of our lives together!! :-) 
Russ, thanks for the kinds words!  I've always supported John in what he does
and will continue to do so!  I'm sure the other wives feel the same.  :-)  It's
just what we do! It works both ways for us.  

K~

No I have not yet heard back from the promoter about the 20th. I will give him
another call on Monday. 

J

ok you guys can take the van to John and Karens, someone get in touch with
Angela so she can ride with you guys to Karens... no since in wasting a lot of
gas when everyone is going to the same house.

RAF 

Just make sure she isn't taking pointers from you Rick.  That would be scary! 
On that note, we would probably do better to take the van.  My car is pretty
small to be trying to squeeze in 2 car seats.  Even if they would both fit, the
kids could probably reach each other.  That would not be a good thing for long I
am sure.

KF

Phyllis is still working on the driving thing.... it is taking a little time but
she is getting there.

RAF

Ok Kristi.... JOHN!!!! have you heard anything on the 20th yet? 
RUSS... there is still no mention on the Masquerade website about the 13th.
Call me on Saturday before 3 pm. I'll be running all over the place and cutting
grass but my phone will be answered by someone and they will get me.


RAF

Well, Phyllis needs to drive!  J/K.  We'll figure it out.  No worries!

KF

Umm only one flaw in the meeting place.... Phyllis doesn't drive. Unless she
gets to kristi's with me then we load up another car seat in her car OR they can
load Tiffy's seat in our van and take it. Either way Kristi and Phyllis can talk
about it on Saturday at the party for Dale.
As for the guys recording and getting it on the sites.... Russ and I have
discussed an option for All Alone and I like it A LOT!!!!. We just have to
convince Ryan and Bob to like it to. We will talk about it on Sat. and Again on
Sun..


RAF

That's what we're for Russ, and when you score yourself a hot blonde babe to be
your muse and stuff she can help us too.  In fact, we can add that to the fliers
if you'd like ;)

KF

I would just like to thank the Delusional Mind Ladies.  Karen, Kristi, Angela,  
and Phyllis.  I hope I spelled everyone's name right.  Ya'll are awesome and 
you rule!!  I think the industry term for all of you would be the Delusional 
Mind Street Team.  Ya'll could make a myspace up and stuff. I see it advertised 
on other bands a lot.  Anyways, Thanks again for the support.

Luv,
RRE

Stuff

I am game for Sunday, but I have to be back home before 6pm.  It is Caine's
weekend w/his dad and they will be dropping him off.  That being said, I will
only have one munchkin in tow.  Of course it is the more difficult of the two,
but what can ya do?  At least she is cute, right? Anyway, Bob is working until
fairly late Saturday, and as Rick mentioned the guys will be invading me then
too, so other than the party I am open that day as well (again w/Tiff in tow). 
I can do either or both days, I don't care. I brainstormed a little at work
today on some ideas (mind numbingly slow day at the office), so I will bring my
notes and we can combine everyones ideas and see where it gets us.  Of
course,GUYS - it is your job to get new stuff recorded and on the site(s) so all
our promotion efforts are not in vain. We can only do so much you know ;)

KF

wow...lots to read when ya get behind!  How about us wives getting together this
Sunday since the guys are practicing?  My house..?  We can work on the flyer and
stuff.

Kristi, bring your shirt and we'll see who can wear it - if ya want.  I need to
get John and I one each.  

K~

Cool.


J

I got someone at work to swap with me. I now have the 13th off.

Bob

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fcbazH6aE2g

best video ever

Bob

ROFLMAO!!!!! especially Bob!


RAF

We need to get all the wives shirts etc to wear.  I have one, but I am too fat
for it now, sigh.  It was almost to small to begin with, but now there is no
question.  One of you other girls may be able to wear it if you want to try.  We
need to have a wife meeting so we can bounce ideas around as far as promotion
etc.  We need to focus on that and let the guys focus on playing.  Making them
multi task could be dangerous.

KF

OK as long as you still have the 20th off everything is cool. Angela... Kristi
wants Ear Plugs...Lots and Lots of ear plugs... JK ... Karen get my number from
John so I can get you all lined up to get the promotional stuff together if you
would.. please. Phyllis has some pretty good Ideas and you have the background
to get it done. As far as the rest of us... PRACTICE A LOT!!!! Angela ... you
have my number call me and I'll give you Phyllis' number so everyone stays in
touch during the blitzkrieg. 

Laters all,
RAF

hey it's Angela just wanted to say HEY to the best band out there... and i also
would like to know from Karen, and Kristi what i can do to get more involved in
the band... so let me know thanks

I'm only switching to work on the 14th instead of the 13th.. I still have the
20th off..

Bob

Bob, Don't change days off we are playing the 20th and it is an all day thing
and you need it off!!!!!! We will do the load in on the 13th you just get there
asap after you get off from work.


RAF

So I am working on memorizing some lyrics.  I changed some words in Insanity's 
Realm.  I was reading somewhere that if you have an Attractive Blonde Woman to 
help you memorize it goes a lot smoother.  So if you see any tell them I need 
help.

RRE

Good.. Now you just need to be able to pull it off every time, and you have 3
weeks to get there.. I don't envy you man.. You need to have all the lyrics
committed to memory in short order.. 

I'm still working on getting that Saturday off.. I'm seeing if one of the other
persons working sunday that weekend will swap weekend days with me so i can be
off all day to do the load in and crap..

Bob

Great!!!!  I can Jam as late as yall want too on Saturday and stuff.

As for the recording thing,  we all know I like Nameless
Day of rain Seems to get stuck in your head.
My Students seem to like There And Back Again alot.
I think Aphrodisiac has the most complicated parts in it.

On another note I finished my solo for There And Back Again.  It is going to 
break me.  

Stuff,
RRE

I work 10-7 on Saturday 10/13/07.. FYI..

I'll see if I can trade with someone to get that day off..


Bob

Ryan, John, Russell.... Practice Saturday night!!!! and Sunday Night this weekend.
I have cleared it with Bob and Kristi. Bob will be at work and I don't know till
what time on Saturday so we will catch him up on Sunday. I'll be there both nights.
John and Russ you guys need to let me know what time you are getting off from
work on Saturday so we can set a time to let Kristi know when we are invading.


RAF

As of today we need to get a demo album together at the least and like I said
earlier we need to get the harder stuff done to showcase our abilities. Three
songs at least, if we can that is.

Input from other members of the band needed here:



RAF

Well we're back from vacation.. Happy Anniversary John and Karen!! I won't be at
Dale's party as I have to work that day. 

I'm thinking we should get After Me finished and published, then Day of Rain.
Then we can do Nameless, There And Back Again, and Edge of Lunacy in any order..
I don't care..

Bob

Solo sounds good Russ. I think the next song we record should be either Nameless
or Edge of Lunacy. Dont know about a video of next session, will have to see who
is available.

J

I finally got through the part for my second solo in There And Back Again.  I 
added a video of it to Myspace.  Myspace.com/daemonzed.   
I also added the videos on you tube.  
We need more videos!!  
Who wants to video some of the next recording session?  
What song are we doing next?  
I sent my guitar to get intonated.  I will have my petrucci with me.  Are we 
going to get together Saturday after Dale's Birthday bash and stuff?
I am cool for sunday too.

RRE
 

Russ I have a surprise for you also.


RAF

Just a reminder.... Dales 1st Birthday is Saturday the 22nd. We are having a
party for him at our house. Since the band is considered family you all had
better be here. I may make an exception for Russ since he works 7 days a week,
but he might want to call and wish Dale a happy B-day.

Call me to find out what time.


RAF

You guys need help or you have entirely too much time to think.


RAF

Nope, neither N nor Z are roman numerals. While yes it is sad for the plight of
Z always bringing up the rear, lets not give it false hopes of acceptance.


J

Check again.  Also if you turn "N" sideways it becomes a "Z" Which I think in 
the roman numeral system is a number and if it isn't is should be cause "Z" is 
an important number.  We all seem to forget about the number "Z" because it is 
last in the alphabet.  So lets all give a hell yeah for the Number "Z"

Also on a another note E=mc square is in accurate.  I believe it is E=mc Circle 
this is the formula for time travel and at the same time for some smoking hot 
barbecue.

RRE

Ummmm...... last time I checked "N" was not a "number".


J

Today's show was brought to you by the number "N"

"N" for Nameless

Stuff
RRE

I vote for Nameless.  Nameless rules.  Did I mention I like Nameless.  The song 
of the day is Nameless.  I like Nameless.  Nameless is cool. 

I started my Bio. 

Stuff
RRE

I like Nameless

Well that was going to happen anyways since our efforts are focused on recording.
Once we get stuff done it will be posted both on this site and on the myspace.
Its just  matter of getting it done.


J

Russ and Ryan... you guys need to write your bios for the band page. Not trying
to rush ya or nuthin....


RAF

The vocals need to be on There and Back Again also and the drums!!!!!
Didn't want to offend our singer and drummer.


RAF

Ok.... We need to get some of the harder stuff on My Space also. There and Back
Again is still the most listened to song on the page. After Me is going to go
over good but I think we need to get Nameless and Edge of Lunacy on there also.
Any input from the rest of you?


RAF

My phone works now.

RRE

Thanks guys!

J

Happy Anniversary John and Karen!

RAF & Family

Ladies and Gentleman today is a special day.  Today is the One Year Anniversary 
of John and Karen Ward.

In celebration of this special occasion I am going to start production for STAR 
WARS THE NEW JEDI ORDER.  

In theaters Summer 2038!

  

So I fried my phone today.  If it is possible I would like to try to do my 
vocals for After Me a few more times tonight. I have to leave at 8:30.
So if anyone need to get a hold of me You have to call Ken Stanton.  

RRE 

Nope.  This is a person.

RRE

Your an Oyster.


RAF

Who am I?  You know, it is like a riddle or something.  

Oh Yeah I forgot to sign the last one.

Stuff,
RRE

WTF are you talking about?


RAF

Pop Quiz!!

I was born without a Father.  No matter how hard I try I always end up hurting 
someone.  My Children hated me all my life.  I don't like sand.

Who am I?  

Turns out I won't be able to get down there until about 3pm, but you 2 can get
started recording Rick's track at 2pm if you want.

Bob

i have a birthday party to go to at 6:30 so 2 to 6 would be great!!!!!
RAJ

I'm wondering why Ryan isn't able to on Saturday. We can start at about 2pm or
so.  We can get Rick's track recorded, then mine, then Ryan. That gives us
Saturday night to get John and Russ done. Once we have a decent track for each
of us I can spend some time mixing and mastering it next weekend.


Bob

so are we recording at all on saturday? IFSO what time??
RAJ

Ryan will have to record his parts on Sunday since he won't be able to do it on
Saturday. I'm up for it though and I agree that we need to get some better
recordings on the sites. Bob is gonna be busy when he gets back from vacation.


RAF

Totally.


J

I agree and After Me would be easy to get done.

RRE

We need to get something new recorded. If we had actually won that battle we
would have been empty handed when asked for a demo to submit..

Bob

So John and I were thinking that Saturday before we get there yall should try 
recording your parts for After Me.  Then when we get there we can do our parts 
and we can have something new on the Website.  It will be easier to get done 
than Day of Rain.  

RRE 

To those whose lives were changed by 9/11/2001 and for the U.S. Military still
not home with their families. You are all in our prayers.


RAF & my family

P.S. Bob's and my father served our country in the Armed Forces until he retired
in 1986. We know the uncertainty of not knowing if someone is coming home or not
when they are called to duty.

LOL!!!


RAF

Dude, you gotta sign your posts man.  We are all far to easily confused to be
trying to figure that kind of stuff out on our own. It's like work and stuff,
and my brain doesn't take kindly to it.

KF

I just put a video of me playing my first solo on There And Back Again on my 
Myspace account.  Myspace.com/daemonzed

Also, if you like it do you want to add it to DelusionalMind.com?

I work Until 6:00 so Maybe we should make it a recording day.

RRE

The server update is complete. Let me known if you see anything that's broken.

Bob

I'm doing an upgrade on the server's OS today. The site and all other services
may be intermittent during the day. 

Bob

saturday is good for me also but, i need to be somewhere at 6:30. So if we can 
start earlier in the day that would be great!!!!
RAJ

That sucks.  If there is an upside to it, I guess it is that you found out
fairly early in the game, before tickets were sold and had to be refunded, etc.
 I'm sure there will be other shows soon.

KF

Due to the promoter giving us the wrong date... and the real date is the 11th of
October. The show is canceled for Delusional Mind. There are too many obstacles
for the band to schedule around on a Thursday night for the time being.
 I would like to apologize to everyone that was looking forward to seeing us
live for the first time. 
 There will be shows in the near future and will be posted here and on our My
Space account.

Again we are sorry for the delay,
Rick Faulkner

Saturday is awesome for me.. I would love to get in a rehearsal before taking
off. Sunday you guys can do anything you want.. all day long if you want.. 

I'm all for playing during the week, we just can't play a show that starts that
early on a day I have to work with this kind of notice.. IBM tends to want a LOT
of notice to take time off.. That being said, I'm off on Tuesday Oct 16th so if
you can find us a little gig that night I'm cool with it =)

Bob

Well that sucks.  I would probably not be able to play if it was thursday 
either but if we can't play weekday shows it will be tough.  most clubs are not 
going to let us play weekends until we have played there a couple of time 
during the week.  

On Another note I think I can rehearse with DM Saturday this week and I would 
be willing on doing Sunday as well.  Maybe get some recording done and stuff.

RRE

It appears the show at the Vinyl has turned into a train wreck. I attempted to
verify the date with the venue and it turns out the show is not on the 14th.
It's on the 11th, which is a Thursday. The show starts at 6pm, which means we
would have to be there at 4pm for load-in. All of us would need to take the day
off or leave work pretty early, including our wives as they are going to be our
ticket agents, etc. 

Personally, it's an act of congress to get a day off at my work on that short of
notice, so it's a high probability I would not be able to get there until the
7:45 to 8pm range, and since we won't know where we'll be in the line up that
isn't practical. 

Rick is going to talk with the promoter and see if he can come up with
something, but unless those talks are fruitful our show is basically canceled.

if so we'll see if we can find another venue for later in October or early November.

Bob

I retired the delusional account on the mail server. The new one is dm.
delusional will remain a valid address for another week then i'll delete the
account.

If you want to send email to the band, use the new dm at delusionalmind dot com
address..

Bob

I'm thinking about deleting the delusional mail account on the server. It's
basically useless due to it being listed on the main page of the site, and
therefore it gets an obscene amount of spam. About 98% of the load on the mail
server is just handling spam on that 1 account. It's useless as a point of
contact for the band since wading through the mass of spam to find anything
useful is near impossible to do unless it's your job. That account gets
somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 spam messages a day. Keep in mind my spam
filters catch about 90-95% so that 150 is only 5-10% of the total messages
hitting the server for that account. (If it catches 90% then we're getting 1500
messages a day on it)

Anyway, I'll replace it with something else like dm at delusionalmind dot com so
the spammer's web crawlers can't pick it up so easy, but it will make it more
difficult for fans/agents to email the band in general.

Thoughts?

Bob

The picture on the front of the site is available in the image gallery on page
4. It's a higher resolution version as well so it will look better on a printing.

If you go to the music page, scroll to the bottom, and click on the link to show
album art, you'll find a high res version of our album cover. I can strip the
name of the album off the bottom and that would make a great flyer background.
In fact, I can recreate the effect from the original image which is friendlier
to the dimensions of a sheet of paper. Also, We need to keep track of where we
put up fliers so we can take them down after the show.. 

I have a concern I will bring up at the band meeting tonight. No one over
promote the show until we can verify something. I'll give you more details tonight.

Bob

uh...I just noticed that the picture of you all - full bodies - isn't there
anymore.  That one was the one I was thinking of using.  We can always take a
picture of you all, with instruments, and use it.   

With only a couple of weeks before the show...time is of the essence!!  This
needs to be done in the next week to allow for printing and posting.

Comments...?

K~

Yes, we need one with just DM on it.  Having one for the "battle" itself is all
well and good, but we want to promote DM and get folks out to cheer for you all.
 Not to mention building a fan base!  

Bob - can the graphics on this site be copied or will they have to be
downloaded?  I like the homepage setup that shows you all.  That would make a
good center for the flyer. 

As much as I hate to loose more of my husband's companionship...you guys need to
practice, practice, practice!!!  I know you're in sync now, but you need to be
in sync with an audience of strangers.  Not that I'm telling you anything you
don't already know...

K~

On another note.... It doesn't matter wethewr we win lose or draw at this thing
because we get a lot of exposure from this type of event. This won't be the last
Battle of the Bands we do either. People remember the bands that play them and
come to see the shows. As long as everyone in the band steps up and gives 110%
plus some then we should have no problems getting gigs and side shows.

RAF

The promoter is supposed to send us a flier on the myspace acct. When we get it
we are supposed to do the leg work i guess to promote the show. I agree with
Karen and Kristi... we need to get as many up at KSU and other places. Spam in
this case may not be such a bad word. Hehe... Also if Karen would like to make
up some fliers to promote just DM at the Vinyl that would also work in our
favor. Never the less we need to sell as many tickets as possible.

RAF

The promoter guy from the contest is supposed to be making fliers up and getting
them to the bands for mass distribution from what I understand.  Then we can
spam everywhere and everyone with them.  Hehehe...

KF

We need to do a flyer to post at KSU to get a crowd and anywhere else so folks
come out.  We'd show the website address and my space so they can hear what you
all sound like.  The fans are the judges in these battles, right? Need to draw a
crowd somehow!!

I can help with laying it out - I've done a lot of stuff like this at work.

K~

thanks Susan, October 14th... we are playing our first show, Im excited as is
the rest of the band.. when might you and Kathleen come visit us in GA?? I Miss
ya both lots And i wouldn't mind seeing David again either

RAJ

Happy???? I'm Fuggin Excited !!!!


RAF

I'm happy to announce Delusional Mind's first public show will be at Vinyl,
located in downtown Atlanta, on October 14th. If you've been wanting to see us
live. This is your chance. We will be participating in a Battle of the Bands
event so be sure to come cheer us on and vote!

More details will come out as we get them!

Bob

You are gereat Ryan, wish I could hear the band in person, your godmother, Susan

I don't remember that part and stuff.  I don't like spam.  It smells funny and 
looks gross.  

Stuff
RRE

There is a timer to keep people from spamming the page Russ. If you try to
repost too quickly it will not post the second post and the cool part is it
tells you when you do and it also tells you how long you have to wait to repost.


RAF

Oh I see.  So What Mistake did you make?  I entered the Text and clicked Apply 
the Paint and nothing happened.  It seems to work now but this has happened 
twice so far.  Yesterday and Today. 

RRE

I investigated the problem and found it to be operator error.

Bob

Hey I Tried writing back to say i forgot to sign the last one and when I 
clicked apply the paint it would not post it.  ?Por Que Senor?

RRE

Congrats Bro!!!!

Today marks 5 years that Kristi and I have been together. It's been a wonderful
5 years!! I look forward to many more happy years together. 

Bob

Oops i forgot to sign

FIRE FOX IS THE DEVIL!!!!!

RRE

Then use Iceweasel! 

Bob

FIREFOX IS THE DEVIL!!!!!!

In firefox? It looks like a house..

Bob

The is no home button.  Where is the home button?
?Donde Esta Casa de botón?

RRE

I Like Kate Beckinsale In Underworld.  She makes me happy

RRE

It does. I have heard it before.


J

My phone rings..

Bob

OK BOB CALL ME WHEN YOU GET THIS I DONT CARE WHAT TIME IT IS..... I NEED TO TALK
TO YOU ABOUT A WAY WE MAY BE ABLE TO RECOED USING THE MONITOR SETUP BEHIND
RYAN"S DRUM KIT!!!!!!

Geez I have asked you to call me so we can talk about things we need to do to
accomplish our goals and you keep fucking ignoring me.


RAF

Site is back up. Most of the updating is done, but is not live yet. expect more
downtime tomorrow as I finish the upgrades.

Bob

The site will be going offline within the hour, for an undetermined amount of
time. I'm in the process of updating software on the server to newer versions.

It may be up and down during this time. Until you see me post here that all is
well, expect anything you try to access to be unstable.

Bob

Just to let you know. Every vocal track you recorded is useless. You turned up
the tape input to the main output on the mixer, which mixed the output from the
computer (read us playing and the metronome) into the main outputs, which were
supposed to be the vocals we were trying to record.. That's why Russ could hear
us playing in the headphones on the headphone output jack, because you were
recording the computer output along with his vocals..

The tape input is to be mixed into monitor channel A which drives the PA.


Bob

After reviewing the practice recordings from the 090207 rehearsal I have made a
list of the songs that are in desperate need of work. I will bring it with me
next Sunday. Bob I need to talk to you on the Freakin Phone!!!! Me and Ryan may
have found a way to record using the headphones as a monitor and have complete
control over the volume and no effect on the actual recording. One night this
week I will come over and we can try it to see if it works. If it does then we
will have no more problems recording except maybe timing issues hehe.

RAF

Edit profile then Manage Songs maybe?

Anyway, I'd leave em up a little longer.. At least a week.. Myspace is not the
fastest place to get a reaction from. We've done no advertising at all other
than on the wall that they are even up yet..

Bob

Bob,
Call me and tell me how to remove the songs on Myspace. I only wanted to let
people know that we are doing stuff, also to see if we get a reaction from the
people that they were removed.
Marketing 101.


RAF

From what I am learning the head phones lie..... If it sounds even in the head
phones it is probably f'd up on the recording. I have already made adjustments
to Russ' vocal settings.... well hell we are going to have to reset them again
as we changed them to record the vocal tracks. By the way guys we are all going
to have to re-record all of our parts on Day of Rain. Just giving you a heads
up. I'll try to do mine sometime this week.

RAF

It sounded even in the headphones. Dont know...


J

John mixed the vocals.. I blame him!!

Bob

im listening to the recording and russ's vocals are very distant.  We will
eventually get this recording thing down HA HA.   but other than that it sounds
great............ john,bob,rick and my self have a great mix. i guess when russ
says he cant here himself we should listen 

RAJ

It's up.

Bob

Bob,
Put up the rehearsal recording so I can cut it down.

RAF

They are there only to let people know that we are working on putting a show
together and there will be recordings of higher quality coming soon.


RAF

I put the rehearsal recordings of Day Of Rain and All Alone on the myspace page
at Rick's request.

Bob

Russ.... You have a talent with words man. You can take any comment and turn it
into a short story.


RAF

War on Demand.  I like it.  Yes I like it a lot.  Reminds me of endless blood 
shed during battle.  Back when I was a young man this was common place with the 
war of the bones and all.  If only I knew then what I know now.  Things would 
be different.  Would she still be here?  I don't know.  She was a crazy one 
that one was.  But we all loved her.  Some of us loved her to much and they 
paid for there transgression with their own tongues.  Yes those were the days.  
When you worst sin was sometimes you only friend.  When the very air you 
breathe still tasted of the sweet nectar of Blood and Sweat.  So where so we go 
from here you ask?  Well I say does it matter.  Why do you want to know 
anyway.  Are you nervous of the coming days.  Only now do you understand the 
true power of Hatred and Fear.  Now, walk with me until you understand these 
words.    

You forgot:

War on Demand
Wrath of Domination
Warriors of Death
Ways of Destruction

maybe a few more out there.


J

It depends.  What does it mean?

Weapons of Destructions
Wings of Destiny
Window of Desolution
With out Deviation
World of Doom
Where Outwold Demands
Winter Overkill Death

Did I come anywhere close?

On another note I fixed Internet Explorer.  I had to reset all its defaults.  I 
figured it would have done that already since I reloaded it twice.

Stuff

W.O.D. sounds like an interesting title to a new song......
What do you guys think?


RAF

Rick, if you want to throw up some of our songs from jam sessions then use the
webdisk feature in webmail to upload them to the server. I'll do a quick
mastering on them to get them sounding a little better and put em up there. 

Bob

Can't do it in the am.. Got a bunch of crap to do that day so the recording
efforts will have to me in the evening.

Bob

I went to my dads yesterday and looked at the (WALL OF DEATH) and i think it 
will work just fine, bob i need your truck to transport it to the Studio... so 
saturday we can do this ill call you and let you know when we can do it. I 
think the best thing would be too just meet me at my house saturday morning and 
we can ride over there together, im sure i can get angela to pick me up from 
your house afterwards.

RAJ

I'm glad all I do is play guitar.


RAF

Russ's turn is coming.. If the cubicle works well for the drums we're gonna make
him sit in it when we record his vocals to kill the room acoustics.

Bob

So it is a wall of Death.  Poor Ryan.   The streets will flow with the blood of 
non believers.

that should not be a problem BOB ill let my father know bout it tonight COOL

It's just a plain cubicle. we're filling it with drums and mics.. nothing more.. 

we're topping it with a comforter so ryan will be encased in a dark, hot, box to
play his drums..

Sounds fun doesn't it?

Bob

Cubicle?  Something seems out of place here.  Is Cubicle a secret code for Box 
of death?  Or on Saturdays is everyone wearing suits and ties?  I have a suit.  
I think it has cake on it from the last time I wore it four years ago.  

So were going to have to move you down to storage room B.  We need to make room 
for some boxes and such.  

So back to the cubicle.  What is on the inside?  is there a top?  Should there 
be a top?  Are there spikes covering the inside.  If so why?  Are there posters 
for inspiration and stuff?  Is so whom?  If the cubicle can contain 100 gallons 
of water and you fill it with 20 gallons of Milk with red food coloring and 
Count Chocula how long would it take for the milk to turn to gold?

Ryan, saturday afternoon to evening we'll bring the cubicle over and work on
trying to get your track reocrded for day of rain.

lemme know if there's any issues with your schedule..

Bob

Bob,
I sent you an E-mail....read it and read it slowly so you get what I mean. I'm
not being an ass I just want you to get what I am saying in the E-mail. I know
how you can skim an E-mail.


Laters,
RAF

So Mossilla Hates me Now My Internet explorer doesn't work.  what the hell!!!
I think it is a conspiracy that orignated back before the time of the ancient 
and wise one.  The Master of Puppets, the King of all kings,  the Shiznit, The 
one who needs no introduction.  What was I talking about?  Damn it all, Never 
mind.  

I learned some of Power Slave.   

FYI,

Stuff and Things.


J

fyi, i'm off this weekend.

Bob

Bob,
I separated the tracks worth keeping from the Sunday practice.
Russ is still a little loud and John is still buried in the mix, but you can
hear him if you listen really hard. Ryan's kick could use some adjustment to the
higher side of the volume scale. It is present but still hard to make out. It
still sounds good as far as a basement recording goes. Call me after you get off
from work on Tuesday.
As for the rest of you guys.... I'm going with distortion from the beginning of
the fast part of Aphrodesiac. I dunno if I spelled that right. I listened to the
recording several times and the change from clean to distorted is too abrupt at
the harmony. If I go distorted from the beginning it shouldn't be as easy to say
WTF was that?


RAF

I changed the coloring on Russ's pic since he wants to stay with the one he
has.. His skin should now match the rest of the tones, but I left zones of
warmer color around his eyes, nose, and mouth. I figured the face should stand
out more.. Let me know if you like it, I can make the face the same as the rest
of the skin if wanted. 

I also added the pic to the myspace page.

Bob

Not every single one!

Ass hat!

Bob

Russ practices with Manic on Saturday Night Dip Stick!


RAF

Cool, we should pick a saturday night soon and hit all of them to scope out the
places. Then we can make a call on where to start.. 

By the way, I bumped up the outbound limit on my traffic shaper, so the site and
anything downloaded from it should come across a little faster. I bumped the
throttle point from 240kbs to 340kbps.

Bob

Club 29
Blue moose
Sweet Water
The vinyl
Tasty treats.

These are all smaller venues we can try and stuff.   

On another note Ice Cream is way better than cake. 

Thanks everyone!  

Here's a laugh for ya...once upon a time I was picking out shots on my
birthday...now I'm picking out deserts!  Ha!  Funny how things change!  Of
course, I love these days and damn sure don't miss the hangover days!!  

K~

Bob,
When you get a chance put Russ' picture on the Myspace acct so it will balance out.


RAF

I was waiting for a final version.. i really just put this one up as a place
holder.. I had altered the code, and without a pic there it looked broken.

This weekend we'll work on trying to get a good pic of him for the final
version. We also need to get a new band photo.. If anyone has a black sheet,
bring it!

Bob

Bob, you need to add Russ' pic the myspace page. It's still just his name and no
pic.

RAF

Russ, also bring over as much of your gear as possible so I can get pics to add
to the equipment page.

Bob

Russ, I need a Bio from ya for your profile page.. And you too Ryan!!

Bob

Damn thing it's before midnight I realized I forgot to tell karen....HAPPY
FREAKIN BIRTHDAY  TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


RAF and Family

Happy Birthday Karen and Russ!

KF

HAPPY FREAKIN BIRTHDAY
RUSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


RAF and Family

Hey i also want to wish Karen and, russle happy birthdays. And to say that
Russ's pic looks Great and i agree with what has been said about the
mix......... AND WOW bob actually said his volume needs to come down MAN OH MAN

RAJ

Ok, I have a rough version of a band header up on the band page, and used the
current pic I made for Russ there. 

We need a new group shot. The one we took the other day was too uneven in the
lighting to be useful.

Bob

Well, I had a great teaser planned for the fans to keep them on the edge of
their seats. If anyone was listening to the MP3 radio station for a short time
they got a small taste of our jam session this past sunday. No sooner had I put
it up and posted the announcement of the sneak preview on the wall, I remembered
we play our cover songs during the session.. Since I don't feel like getting
sued into the dirt because we dared to air ourselves playing a song someone else
wrote 25 years ago, I took it back down..

Sorry guys.. Don't blame me, blame the ridiculous copyright laws on the books
that gives people a virtually unlimited copyright..

Bob

Happy Birthday to my loving wife Karen and my good friend Russ!

J

Happy Birthday Karen!!

B,K,C, and T!

Bob dude that picture is awesome!!  I am happy with that but if you want to do 
the hand on the leg that would be cool too.  Either way great job.  I am really 
impressed.  On another note is that women seeing anyone? 

RRE

I want to get a new pic of him looking at her and his right hand on her thigh.

Bob

That is a good picture to work with Bob!!!


RAF

OMG!!!!!!!! Bob said he needs to turn down..... This is the official notice that
the world will end tomorrow and hell has already started to freeze!!!!!!!


RAF

The video came out pretty good.. Really the only improvements I could see would
be bringing the vocals down just a touch, me down a touch, ryan's kick drum up
(we need to cut the hole!) and john up a whole lot.

Russ, I made a pic for you but I want your stamp of approval before I put it up
anywhere official. I put it in the image gallery on page 9. We can take a new
picture if you want. I have a really good idea of how to really exploit that
picture with a new picture.

The one in the image gallery should give you a good basis to start from though.

Bob

After we cut the tracks out..... forgot to mention that earlier.


RAF

I have listened to the rehearsal track from last night. The mix is off a
little.... but we are getting closer to getting a really good mix for an overall
recording. John is hidden and Russ' vocals are still a little too much. Bob
needs to come down a touch more. Ryans' drums need to be brought out a little
more. Mine and Russ' guitars are good as far as volume but my guitar needs a
little tweaking on the sound as far as lows and mids. Once we correct these the
mix will be almost  good enough to put on the myspace account or even the web
site for demo purpose only.


RAF

Fuck modesty!!!! The song Russ and John wrote is brutal for someone that has had
as much damage to their hands as I have. My fingers don't bend that way as easy
as they used to.

The moral to this story.... Don't hurt your hands if you play guitar or bass,
you might have to move your fingers in strange directions at a high rate of speed.


RAF

OK, then we need someone to take the picture.


J

Guys, we need to get a full band picture this weekend, and also need to get a
pic of Russ for the band page.

Bob

Really? I think maybe you shouldn't publicly air the things you 2 are up to.. I
mean.. How about a little modesty!

Bob 

My friggin fingers hurt Russ......

RAF

Ok, most of them are in the repository.. I went through and fixed most of the
typos and added attribution..

Bob

I sent you the Lyrics 

RRE

I wasnt saying you ya buttplug, it was directed in genreal.


J

Get to splicing!! I'm not the only one with a computer!

Bob

Hence why ya need to splice it up into something that is worth listening to.


J

It's 2.5 hours long. A CD will only hold 80 minutes..

Bob

hey can i get someone to burn me a copy of the recording we did last sunday.... 
i have heard it and it sounds good but i want a cd so i can listen to it in the 
car or anywhere besides my computer.  So if i can get some to burn it for me 
that be great THANKS

RAJ

An ingenious ploy!

KF

Well, you're my dedicated groupie =)

Russ plans to get on stage and announce that he's the only single guy in the
band so all the girls should only bother trying to see him after the show.

Bob

Will that make us girls groupies?  That sounds fun ;)

KF

Rehearsal last night was a lot of fun. For those who know where to look, it's
posted on the server. 2.5 hours worth of our practice! 

We are working hard on improving our existing material and writing new material
as well. If all goes well, we should have final mix versions of some of our
songs on the site in the next 2 months, and possibly most of the album by year end.

Also, keep your eyes and ears open, because Delusional Mind may be playing in
Atlanta area clubs in the next couple of months.

Keep checking back here for details. We'll post when and where we are going to
be playing.

It's an exciting time for the Delusional Mind.

Bob

I'm looking for a good pic of a stake on a hill.. Then I'll be pretty much done.

Bob

When are you gonna finish the artwork for You Stand Accused Bob?

RAF

Yeah he had a rough concept done but didnt really like it so he is starting over.


J

John, have you had any movement on getting that artwork done for Edge of Lunacy?

Bob

http://www.powertabs.net

J

John,
 I tried to find the power tab site but it doesn't look anything like the one I
have used before. Link it for me so I can find it again.


RAF

I was going to say that!

Bob

Moo!

http://www.floydrose.com/
Another link for you to add Bob.

RAF

The concert last night was kick ass... to say the least. After the first 2 bands
came up and did their sets Manic took the stage and began their assault.
They basically took the audience chewed them up and spit them out and then
stomped on them. They were fantastic, full of extreme energy and showmanship. I
personally had a fuckin blast!  The Papa Luigi Project also had a really good
set. They played exceptionally well and the harmony guitars were of Maiden
quality. All in all it was a fantastic time had by all.

NUFF SAID,
RAF

Ok, Rick's effects processor is now on his amp gear page. 

I'm patiently waiting to get off work so I can head down to the Manic show.

Bob

We got Rick's part of Day Of Rain recorded, for the most part. We were unable to
get After Me recorded because, well, Rick sucks..

Anyway, we also took some pics to work on the artwork for You Stand Accused..

Bob

Russ, can you type up the lyrics for Day Of Rain and After Me and email them to
me so I can stick em in the lyrics database..

Also, remind me this weekend to set up your email account.

Bob

I didn't record the last part yet anyway.. I need the guitar there to groove to
or else it doesn't sound right..

Bob

Yes Bob redo your part for Day of Rain with the new harmony. You recorded your
part before we added it.


RAF

Yes, don't be recoring the wrong one!

KF

Make sure you are recoring the new harmony to Day of Rain.


J

O...TAY BUHWEET!

Rick, if you can, come over tomorrow night, NOTE I WILL EAT DINNER BEFORE WE
START SO EAT DINNER BEFORE YOU COME OVER, so we can record some. Also come
prepared to take some pictures and crap for singles art, etc. We'll put 1.5 to 2
hours into it. We should be able to get Day Of Rain and After Me done in that time. 

I recorded my parts for both songs in about 30 minutes.

Bob

I just like to confirm my knowledge.


RAF

Rick- why do you ask questions you already know the answer to?
KF

Kristi.... Does he bitch like this all the time????? hehehe


RAF

Well, if you were the person that the song is supposed to be about, you would be
happy to have your freedom I suppose.
KF

That computer is at home, currently turned off.. If it was running I would have
put it up from work while on lunch or something.. 

I could turn it on as I went out the door in the morning, but then I have to
burn a steady 300-500W all day long, just to get a pic off the drive. 

I'll get to it eventually. Probably no later than Saturday. I have to work
Saturday and it's mind numbingly boring anyway so I'll probably leave it on so I
can work on it from here..

As far as the Internet Explorer issue is concerned: is all of humanity to toil
under an electronic tyranny forever, simply because we're too stupid/lazy to
spend 5 minutes downloading a completely free program that actually does what
it's supposed to?

Would you stay in a room where some ass hat nailed you in the head with a hammer
every 2 minutes when all you had to do was open the door and walk out? 


BTW, Kristi came up with an interesting idea for the lyrics on nameless. I need
to get with Russ so we can work out the lyrics to fit with the music.

I'm a little concerned that the music is a little too happy and festive for the
topic though.. 

Bob

Hey Bob,
 The other day you and I took pictures of my processor and downloaded them to
your computer. I know you have them because the pictures of Russell were in that
particular download. As far as Microsoft is concerned.... You have to expect
that the everyday computer user has some version of windows on their computer
and you are just going to have to accept that. Not everyone is as fluent in
computers as you are....mainly because we don't give a fuck, in general, I hate
computers except for the fact that I have to use them for work and we need them
to get our music out there to the public, Simply put, quitcherbitchen and post
the pic of the processor.......PRETTY FUCKIN PLEASE!!!!!!


RAF

The "norm" is the standards set by the bodies that govern how the internet
works. Everyone else plays by the rules, except Microsoft. I already revamped
the Band page to work correctly even in that broken POS browser. The Play button
on the music page will never be fixed because IE has a broken object model and I
don't feel like recoding from the ground up because MS can't follow a simple
standard.

If you want to play the songs in the browser, use a decent browser. If you're
determined to use IE, download the files and enjoy.

Bob

Well I suppose thats the price for deviating from the norm.


J

Well, I got a chance to look at the site in IE 7 last night, and found that it
is still too horribly broken to properly display a standards compliant web site
like this one.. So, I'm going to have to spend some time bastardizing the code
on the site to get it to work acceptably in that hellhole of company's broken
POS browser.

Bob 

If anyone wants to know what processor I am using, it's a Boss GT-8. If you
would like more info go to our links page and go to the Boss website. They have
a video presentation on this kick ass processor ( Thanks again John!!! )



RAF

It's all part of the same point though.
I have my reasons for running everything in the environment I do.

And the fact this site is hosted in a unix environment has nothing to do with
putting his picture up in the gear page. 

He has a camera.

He has the same graphics software I use on his computer.. It's all free baby!!

Changing the picture in his page is as simple as dumping the image file in the
right directory on the server, and changing the name of the file to be displayed
in the HTML file. It's mind numbingly easy. I just haven't had time to do the
graphics work because I'm using all my free time getting Russ added to
everything, and practicing on my bass!

Bob

Thats not the point I was going for and you know it.


J

And how often does the site go down?

Bob

Russ's Pick = Alice in Chains - We Die Young


J

Your the one that insists on having everything in Unix, so.....


J

Rick, Ryan, and myself had the pleasure of attending the rehearsal of Russ's
other Band, Manic, on Saturday. In turn, Vic and Bob of Manic attended ours on
Sunday.

It was a lot of fun, and it served to inspire the heavier side of our style.

In other news, Rick and John have again changed their cover songs.

As of now the covers I know of are:
Bob's pick: Iron Maiden - To Tame A Land
John's pick: Metallica - Creeping Death
Rick's Pick: Judas Priest - Breaking The Law
Russ's pick: Alice In Chains - (I really don't know which one yet)
Ryan's pick: Tool - Schism

Bob

When you learn how to do it yourself, then you can complain!

Bob

Bob, Where's the pic of my processor?


SLACKER!!!!!!!!

RAF

Yep.. I can feel it in my bones..

Bob

Happy-B day Bob, you old bastard!


J

Yes thats much better Bob.

J

Yes, that is much better.  I actually agreed w/Rick.  It was scary!

KF

I added a little instruction line to the Band page.. Is that better?

Bob

Yes... I figured it out but you might add something to point that out to site
visitors...


RAF

Did you happen to try pointing your mouse at it?

Bob

.....

Ok Bob, I checked it using Firefox and the Band Page is Blank except for the header.


RAF

I changed the band page in preparation for adding Russ. Check it out and let me
know if you see any major issues. If you're using Internet Explorer 6 and it
looks wrong, I don't care!

Bob

Welcome to the family man..

I've updated the image on the front page to add Russell. There are a couple of
pics of him in the Image Gallery, and I've added him to the band history page.
I'll need some time to get the band page updated. I'll have to redo the banner
and figure out an intersting way to handle 5 images.

Bob

Bob, Rick, John and Ryan would like to announce that we have found a
singer!!!!!!!! (bout damn time!!) Please welcome to Delusional Mind Russell
Eldridge. Russell is also the singer/songwriter for Manic. He will be pulling
double duty performing with both bands, but we couldn't pass up the talent and
musical input he will be bringing to the band. As well as singing he is also an
accomplished guitarist and will be adding to the instrumentals.

So everyone please join us in welcoming Russell to the Delusional Mind family.


RAF

Bob, get a photo of Rick's effects processor and other things.

J

Way to go!

Bob

Bob, I'm reminding you that we need to get new photos of my new effects
processor and other things.


RAF

Rick, this weekend we need to get a photo of your new effects board, and other
things.. Remind me!

Bob

Cool.
Karen and the baby are doing good.

J

Bob must have been playing on the Myspace page....... 
John call me sometime tomorrow afternoon....How's Karen and the kids?


RAF

I was going to say that!

Moo

OK..... I don't wear panties..... And if you are thinking about me wearing
panties, then maybe you have some issues that you need to discuss with someone
in the mental health profession. Aside from that, The reason I asked him is
because no one else has a clue what Bob has on his mind besides Computers.
So....Bob when you get a chance call me.

Cya later,

RAF

Maybe he'll do it right about the time you get your panties out of a wad about 
it.

I still haven't got them downloaded completely. It ties up my computer and we
can't get anything else done. When are you going to announce the addition to the
band? Or do you want me to do it?

RAF

Positive, because I stopped that after I got to work.

Bob

You sure it wasn't what you were downloading?


RAF

Man, you guys are slowing down the site downloading from the server.. 

Bob

I tried to download those files Bob, I never got them, couldn't get past 14%.
Make me a disk or let me know and I'll bring one over and copy it.

RAF

Sunday at 5:30... I'm going early to teach Bob the bass line to breaking the law.
I'm then going to pick up Russel and bring him to practice.


RAF

I'm off both days this weekend. So Rick and Ryan, what day do you guys want to jam?

Bob

Grats guys on the new carpet critter!! Gonna have to make room on the Family
Image Gallery for more pictures!

from Bob, Kristi, Caine, and Tiffany

CONGRATULATIONS to John and Karen!!!!!!! Baby Logan is here!!!!!!

From,
Rick, Phyllis, Savanah, Bailey, Meghan and Dale.

Ditto.


Rick

Thanks for the comments! We are working hard recording all our existing catalog
again, with better sound, and with Ryan pounding the drum lines out. We're also
actively auditioning singers. We've come across some promising candidates, and
we're confident this void will be filled in the next few weeks.. 

Believe me when I tell you I personally want a singer, not a screamer. I like a
little grit in the voice when it's called for, but growling is not what I'm
after.. Keep checking back from time to time. As we get the old songs remastered
and the new songs recorded, they'll be showing up on the site.

Bob

Nice riffs, I was scanning the metal channels on Xiph.org and found you. Sounds
like music from Sauerbraten. Things will change for you and your sound once you
get a singer, or one of you attempts to sing. I wouldn't go the death metal zero
talent screaming route. You won't sell many CDs that way let alone get a record
deal. Good luck, hope you can get the real drums into the recordings, the
computer sounds so lame, like Crossfade's 1st album. lol Peace ;)

Fuck it I'll say what I have to say tomorrow night.

RAF

No.. that would be brown.. Unless there's something very wrong with you, then it
it could be red.. But that would be bad..

Bob

And...red looks like shit!

I see.

J

I was poking fun at Karen for mentioning it..

Bob

So then what was the point of changing the color in the first place?


J

And now back to red like it's supposed to be..

Bob

Ok, now it's a very light shade of grey.. Is that better?

Not that it matters, I'll be setting it back to red soon..

Bob

GET RID OF THE PINK!!!!
Try a different color...Hell white was better than this shit!


RAF

Also, no jamming on the 4th guys. Spending the day with the wife and kids, not
the band.. 

In site news, I finally got around to going through every single page on the
site and fixing all the deprecated HTML issues and crap. Every page on the site
I wrote, or wrote the program that generates it, now certifies HTML 4.01
transitional compliant per the W3C.

I still have a little more to clean up as I'm aiming for eventual XHTML 1.0
strict compliance.

Bob 

How about flamer pink?

Bob

The blue looks gay. Go back to white.


J

No, blue isn't gonna work.  What about black or white?

We're on the countdown...not counting today, 5 more days and Logan is here! 

K~

Guess that's what I get for taking color advice from someone who is color
blind.. Anyone else want to go into convulsions after reading this?

Bob

Well I don't like the blue too much personally..

Bob

White lettering is a little too much Bob, try a shade of blue. It might contrast
on the red better.

RAF

Well, as well as playing bass my brother is also the terms and conditions
reader. In a way I guess that's a good thing. The other bands may not have read
the T and C Bob. 

RAF

I read the terms on that hardaxe site and I'm not going to sign up or upload any
of our stuff to it. We basically have to sign over any and all rights to our
music to the point they could take our music, make an album from it, put it in
every record store in the world and rake in the cash, never having to pay us a
single red cent for the priviledge. 

I don't need them that badly.. 

I find it hard to believe any band would accept those terms just for a few MB of
web space.. Even myspace isn't that draconian in their terms of service.

Bob

And to explain the reason the site was so red;

Our first album is named Insanity's Realm. The title song on the album is about
a guy who has a nightmare about the world ending in a flood of blood, then wakes
up to find blood red clouds gathering in the sky..

Hence, the album cover is an ocean of blood with a red sky, and the site is
modeled after the album cover.

Anyway, the beauty of CSS shows itself in the fact I can change something like
the color of all the text on the site by editing a few lines in a file!

Bob 

He lives in his own wonderful world. Well, if the site was too red, how is it now?

Bob

What fantasy world are you living in???????


J

I think they would let me have it cause I'm so damn charming and nice.


RAF

Hmmm Rick.  See, the problem with that is I bet they would want you to pay money
for it.  Some people suck that way.

KF

Bob,
Copy the link Matt made and get us on there, John that guitar kicks total ass
and I want one..... NOW!!!!!!


RAF

WOW, 2 post, 1 night. hehe..have you all seen this?

http://www.hardaxe.net/

Matt

Hey gang. Its been awhile. Thought you all might like this. This is the guitar 
I was talking about John.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sharp-rock/angel-sword-guitar-plays-iron-maiden-
songs-slays-teen-pop-stars-270974.php

Everyone take care and see you all later

Matt

Man this sucks I finally get DSL at my house and something somewhere is F"d up.
I can't even get certain pages to load.

RAF

The new background on here sucks!  Damn Bob...there's a lot of Red.  Is there
something we should know...?!  ha!

BTW, it appears jam session this weekend is Sunday at 5ish..

Bob

Hah! Cool, I will be sure to check it out Sunday night.

Ya dude, dont know whats up with the computers.


J

Hmm, well it's kinda odd that every machine I've tried it on, even several here
at work, works just fine.. I'll have to look at your computers to see what's wrong.

Bob

John, I forgot to tell ya, and I forget every time we talk, so here... This
Sunday at 11pm on Cartoon network they are showing a Star Wars themed Robot
Chicken.. 

Bob

And why has the text size gone from normal to enormous?

RAF

I didn't use explorer I used firefox and I also downloaded the java scripts 
when it promted me. So it doesn't work.


RAF

I'll reiterate, if you use a broken browser, like Internet Explorer, you
shouldn't expect anything to work right..

And I wasn't too expectant it would work very well on Win98 anyway.

You probably need to install Java on your machine Rick. I don't even know if Sun
supports windows 98 anymore..

Bob

It didn't work.... and as far as slackers.... the picture of my new effects 
proccessor is still not on the equipment page. Oh my DSL is up and running btw.


RAF

You have to use a computer that doesn't suck first!

Anyway, John, you need to update your bio as it ends with Mouse still in the
band, same with you Rick, and Ryan.. well.. Where's that email with yours in it!?!?!

Slackers all!!

Bob

I have to see it work before I can comment on it.


J

Don't everyone comment on the new music player at once!

Bob

Alrighty then...

Anyway, I have the music page setup so you can now play the songs within the
browser window without having to use an external media player. It's a java
applet, which is a little buggy, but it works well enough. The player will show
up at the bottom of the page so if you scroll down to the bottom you will see
it. Abuse it for me and let me know about any issues you find with it.

The other nice thing is the applet will also play theora video files in the
browser, so we'll be able to host some lower res video on the site.
I already have one of our jam videos up, but you need to know where to go to get
to it =)

Bob

I work 10-6 every Saturday intil baby gets here. I am working extra hours to
make up for the time I have to take off for the baby. Since Im still not
considered full time at KSM, I dont get vacation, so I have to eat every day i
take off.



J

Well, what about Saturdays?

Bob

Well I am working every Sunday untill Logan is born. If we just focus on 
recording, then you guys can start early and I can just lay down my track when 
I get there at 5:30.


J

I'm working on adding the ability to play our songs, and eventually some video
within the browser, with no need for an external media player or codecs to be
installed. All you'll need is Java. Expect the music page to look a little weird
for the next few days while I add in the code to handle this.

Bob

Sunday was fun guys. Maybe next weekend we can start earlier. I get the sneaky
suspicion we will need to redo the recordings of everyone's part due to the
apparent clipping on some of the tracks we did last time. We did record Ryan's
drums as a test and after mastering that track it sounds really good.

Bob

Ok, I guess Sunday at 5:30 it is..

Bob

I work 1-5 on Sunday so I will be there at 5:30


J

Ok, Rick needs the jam session to be on Sunday this weekend. I'm off both days
so I'm open for whatever. John and Ryan, input!

Bob

Right on. Cant wait for my boy to get here!!!!

J

We'll come annoy you after a day or 2 in the hospital. Can't wait to see the
little bugger =)

Bob

Eighteen more days and Baby Logan will be here!!  Woohoo!  We are so excited!! :-)

We're scheduled for a 6:45 AM delivery on Monday, July 9th, at Northside
Hospital.  We have to be there at 4:30 AM...not like we'll sleep the night
before anyway!

I'm pretty sure he's taking after his Da-Da...I can tell he's going to be longer
than Dreah was at birth...I'm full and he's still growing!  ha!

K~

Naa... Haven't had time to really mess with it. 

Bob

OK have you fixed ardour yet?


RAF

ROFL!!!  I didn't even get through the first paragraph!  More DNS crap... 


K~

Bob's 30min disertation on how to turn on a light switch.

J

Well, I removed some CSS filters from the graffiti wall and music pages. Their
effect on the visual layout were minimal but they caused Firefox to be
incredibly slow when scrolling the page. In the end I decided to remove them
because the effects they produced weren't worth the screen lag they generated.
My bet is no one will notice they're missing.

I'm also toying with adding fixed background textures to the tables. All this is
of course very broken in Internet Explorer 6 since it's an atrocity of a browser
that never should have been released. 

My plan is to make these textures based on our songs. The current one is based
on a song I'm writing for the album entitled "You Stand Accused". Once we have
more created I will set the server to cycle through them hourly.

Bob

Thats a bummer. I use to love his show.

J

Sad news. Mr. Wizard has died. 
He helped light the fire of inspiration for many children who grew to be
scientists and engineers.

Bob

I thought the same kernal was on both machines???
Its a odd issue to say the least. I would guess that would be the way the sound 
card is reading it, but it could be the Jack program itself interacting with 
the different sound cards, if that makes any sense. hehehe. I know you will 
finger it out though.

J

Nope. Still working on it.. Once Kristi came home I abandoned my efforts for the
evening. I have a few ideas though. I did find that the onboard audio chipset is
locked at 48KHz sampling rate and ALSA should upsample to that rate. I'm
thinking the daemon is just having issues getting the capabilities it needs from
the kernel. I'll work on it more.. I would really rather do the final mixing and
mastering on that machine.

Bob

Any luck with the frequency issue Bob?


J

Stuff and Things!

J

Practice will be on Saturday. Rick and John come over around 3pm. We're going to
lay down some tracks. Ryan will get there after 5pm.

Bob

This was sent to our myspace account. Posting it here for general consumption:

 	Hi dudes! I'm jimi (formerly from marietta lol) My good friend russel in Manic
told me about y'all & how y'all were looking for a singer for your band! Well,
I've been a singer for many, many years, but have never really found the right
band to sing w/. I'm currently in a local rock/metal cover band called The
Velveeta Brothers, granted I love what we are doing, but I honestly & truly
wanna sing for an awesome Power/Prog Metal band more than anything!!! My fave
singers & singers that highly influenced me are Paul Di'Anno, Bruce Dickinson(UP
THE IRONS! :D) Rob Halford(The Metal God!), Dio, Geoff Tate, Eric Adams (Manowar
The Kings Of Metal!), Jon Oliva (The ORIGINAL Mountain King!), Matt "fucking"
Barlow (Iced Earth Rule!) I'm also highly influenced by Geddy Lee, Jim Morrison
& Glenn Danzig, Layne Staley, & Chris Cornell, I know these are not metal
singers, but I do appreciate a great voice as well as heaviness & technicality!
I'm also a huge Rush fan also & love just about EVERY and I do mean EVERY Good
Power Metal band I hear! So I guess you could say I eat, sleep & drink Power
Metal 24/7! :D Anyhoo, just message me back & let me know when & where exactly
y'all practice & shit, I'd really love the oppurtunity to auditition for you
guys! okay? Oh one more thing, I'll just bet john has just as many Maiden shirts
as I do now! lol ;) (I currently have about 30 something so far!)
Thanks & keep the flame of Metal alive!
jimi. 

Good from what I heard from Ryan and Rick. Went really smooth.

J

So how did the move go guys?

Bob

Good stuff man!

J

For those who know where to look, I finished the lyrics for There and Back
Again. Take a look and tell me what you think.

Bob

Back to the grind.


J

Sometimes I wonder if its enough to keep me here though.


J

That would be money.


Bob

Bored at work today!!!
Why am I here again???

J

I like to make things very clear.

Anyway, we just passed 3500 unique visitors to the site.

Bob

HAHA, when has Bob ever given a simply explanation?????? He always has to give 
a 30min disertation on how to turn on a light!!!


J

Blah blah blah...... so much info..... keep it simple we are recording again....
expect newer versions of our allready recorded material.... live drummer 
instead of a compter... nuff said.


RAF

To keep our hordes of fans updated:

We're about to start the process of recording all our songs again under a
completely free environment. Expect the updated versions to be a little
different in places as solos have evolved, bass lines have evolved, we've
switched over to recording the guitars via microphones to give them more life,
and there is a real live person playing the drums instead of my trusty computer.
We're moving from the proprietary Cakewalk platform to Ardour, Rosegarden, and
Jamin, all running under Linux, for recording and mastering our music.

Once we get the songs recorded and mastered, we'll start posting them to the
site and on the radio stations.

Bob

Good jam session on Saturday guys.. I had a lot of fun.
It's looking like this coming weekend will be a Saturday night jam. Something
like 6 to 8:30 or so.

Bob

Ok, jam session is Saturday at 5. John and Rick can come over at 3:30 or 4 and
we'll work on writing or something.

Bob

Ryan said he could only do it on Saturday this week, so sounds like Saturday is
the plan, he will be there at 5. I get off work at 2 so the 3 of us can work on
stuff until Ryan gets there.

J

ok guys.. lets hear input on what time to jam this weekend.
i'm off both days. john gets off at 2pm sat and is off sunday.
that's all i know at the moment.

Bob

Classic:

http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_expendability.jpg

Bob

It's the real "you're married" anniversary.

Buy a house with a basement so we can all come over and make ridiculous amounts
of noise, and piss off your neighbors for a change!! 

Bob 

Ahhh...isn't that sweet!  Is this the first anniversary of the first " I do's?"?
 ha!

I'm sure John will be taking off practicing in July while we welcome Logan to
the World!  Won't be long now...:-)

Then we'll be putting this house up for sale - woohoo!  We already need more
room and we're expanding!  I'm hiring movers for the big stuff!!  F lift our
heavy-ass furniture!  

K - back to work now.  Just wanted to leave my mark as one of the wives!

K~

Consider this notice guys.. No practice the 1st weekend in June. I have to work
that saturday and it's Kristi and my anniversary so the rest of the weekend I'm
spending with her.

Bob

You can get DSL at the new place?  I wouldn't think it would reach out there.

Once we get DSL at the house Phyllis will stop by more often.


RAF

Yeah well, you know.

J

This board just isn't anywhere near as entertaining since the wives stopped
posting as much =(

Bob

I'll play injured or not.....Pain is nothing to me.

RAF

Just have that wrist ready to jam on Sunday.

Bob

My wrist is not broken, just sprained. Thanks for all the help guys, if it 
hadn't been for you the move wouldn't have happened in time. We are now in the 
process of unpacking everything which takes a whole lot longer than the actual 
packing. Other than that everything is going great.


Laters,
RAF

Happy B-day to Rick and John.. You old bastards!

Bob

Don't forget about the move on Sunday..... This weekend guys. I'll call you on 
Friday to remind you again.

RAF

Well it was definitely a short jam session yesterday.. The plan next weekend is
to get Ryan's drums fully miced with the new mics John bought. We'll see if we
can get a decent recording with the kit properly miced. If we can then expect
all the songs on the site to soon be replaced with new versions with the
computer generated drums replaced with real ones!

Bob

just another day to me now.. 

By the way, whatever we're doing jam wise this weekend will be tomorrow night
about 6ish.. I think Rick will be there earlier than that. I won't be home
before then most likely. John won't be there. Short session, etc.


Bob

My favorite day of the year!


J

Added some pictures to Rick's guitar page and my bass page of all our guitars
and basses together. Also, we rearranged the studio to more of a stage-like
layout. You can get somewhat of a feel for the new layout from the pics as well
if you are familiar with the studio.

The higher resolution versions are also posted in the Image Gallery. I'll get
new pics of the studio once everything has been finalized.

Bob

We are closing on our house on the 26th of April. We are moving the following 
weekend. We will be loading the heavy stuff on Sunday the 29th, John and Bob 
have already been enlisted, Ryan you're next. I am also going to get a couple 
guys from work to help. I will remind everyone a few days before the move so no 
one will forget. See ya Sunday for practice. 

Laters,

RAF


P.S. There will be a house warming party a couple weeks after we move in. 

Ryan, what web browser are you using to post to the wall from? It's not
formating the data correctly and I have to go in and reformat your posts every
time to get them to fit in the table correctly.

Bob

Gary At Guitar Center Is Replacing All The Defective Parts On The Kit: The Rims
There Are Two Bent Rims  And The Snare Lug Will Be Replaced As  Well Plus Spare
Parts  Although Im Not Getting The Kit Replaced Its Good To Know That Something
 Is Being Done About It
        Ryan 

It's looking like, if we're going to jam this weekend, it's going to be Sunday
evening. John will be unavailable during the day either day, and I have a
birthday party tomorrow evening. 

Ryan, how's the snare drum?

Bob

Ill check when Im at work tomorrow. It would prolly be a good idea for you to
call me and remind me.

J

I figured out the problem with the Dean 5 string and why it sounded so anemic.
The volume pot was toast and in effect had the preamp turned almost all the way
down. For now I soldered a jumper wire across the pot to short it out, which
effectively sets it to an unadjustable full volume. It now sounds really nice. 

John, I need a 30Kohm pot! How much?

Bob

I was going to post something humorous and funny but I forgot what it was.

J

Ryan,

Need your bio for the site!!!!!!!
No practice this weekend due to Easter holliday, but be ready next weekend.

RAF

Good jam on Sunday guys, other then the fact we suck.

Bob

I have her first year's wardrobe waiting!!  I just pulled a bunch of clothes out
of her armoir and she only wore some of them once!!  If I was having another
girl, I'd be set!  But, that's cool.  Looking forward to buy little boy stuff! 
Of course...now John has his "Princess Leia and Luke"  Someone help me!!  LOL!!!

K~

Actually it is today, the 29th, so you were right on time!

KF

Happy Belated 1st Birthday to Tiffany!!  Wasn't it the 27th?

K~

Sorry Guys My Bad Can We Play From Noon To Three My Other Plans Are Back On
    Again Sorry For Being So Wishy  Washy 

Band Practice Is Back On Guys So Sunday At What Time     Noon To Four?

Ryan, we still need you to write up a bio for your member page!

Bob

Good jam session on Sunday guys.. I had a lot of fun.

Bob

4-7pm Sunday guys.. Make your plans!

Bob

There's a concert in my basement every weekend.. Well, most weekends at least.

Bob

Yo....when is a concert scheduled?! I'm going out of my "Delusional" mind!!!!

Timothy Philip Craven

My new practice 5 string fretless is scheduled to arrive this week!

It's cheap, but hey, it's meant for me to beat the crap out of.

Bob

Welcome back!

Bob

After 6 months and going the distance with Bellsouth. I HAVE DSL!!!! 
This Internet thing is cool. Was this just created?

66.156.13.79

Matt

I'll be ready....

RAF

Looking like we're doing a Sunday evening jam this weekend guys.

Bob

...the less you care!  ha!

K~

The more you know!

Bob

John enlightened me - I never thought about those eyes visiting the site!  Sorry
- now I know!  

K~

No rude Fucking comments on the site....
Everyone play nice!!!

HEHEHEHE

RAF

No, that's already public knowledge, and I'm not afraid to admit it.

I told John about it, if he remembers he can tell ya. Or I can tell ya later.

Bob

Yeah, so...what was said that is not for public knowledge?  Oh wait...I 
know...it was about you being lazy!  LOL!

K~

Wow.. Ok.. Remember this is a public forum and anyone can read it!!

Bob

Goodness...You would think they'd have an idea with seeing several cases!  If
not, they should be all over it in case it is something highly contagious!  How
does he feel?


Let us know what you find out.

K~

Well, the pediatrician has no idea what he has. It could be chicken pox, but
they aren't positive.  Whatever it is, they have seen 3 cases of it this week. 
That tells me it is contagious whatever it is.  They said to watch him and see
tonight and in the morning, and if it gets worse I might should keep him home
tomorrow too, but if not he "should" probably be okay to go to school.  I really
don't want "shoulds" and "mights."  I need to know these things.  He is supposed
to go with his dad this weekend, but his stepmom is pregnant, and I don't want
to send him not knowing what he does or doesn't have.  I am thinking about
taking him to that kids urgent care over off Chastain to see if they can
actually give me a diagnosis.

KF

Yikes!  Yeah, better stay away.  

Cool - keep us posted.

K~

Looks like it may have to wait.  I have to take Caine to the doctor at 1:30
today.  I think he has chicken pox- yippie!!  He got the shot, but they say they
can still get a mild case.  It doesn't look too bad yet, but I just noticed it
yesterday.  Maybe I'll get lucky and it will be something else.  I can't imagine
all that time off work, because then you know Tiffany will get it.  That's like
two weeks or more out of work!  Anyway, preggos can't be around the pox, so that
will definitely do away with us getting together for awhile.  I'll update after
the doctor visit once I know for sure.

KF

You think you have a lot...I have 6 or 8 boxes in the garage for you to go
through!  It's the older 1 year and up stuff.  Probably still a lot of pink, but
I tried to not buy so much.  Most all girl clothes come in it though.  We'll
have to get together soon and go through it all!  I'm open this weekend so far.
 I don't have much room here either and I'm trying to get the house ready to put
on the market so we can fill up new one!  The one thing I was planning on buying
new is an infant carrier.  But if we can find some energy for Bob, then we'll
use yours.  Have to tell him to "get the lead out" haha!

Dreah has found the walker and some other stuff in the garage and has been
sitting in them - it's so cute!  I'm not sure she quite understands she has a
baby brother on the way - it should be interesting.  She'll probably tell me to
take him back!  haha!

Let me know when you want to get together.

K~

Well, I've been cleaning Tiffany's room again.  I have one question now...What
am I supposed to do with this holy (insert fowl language here) ton of baby girl
clothes in boxes all over the place?  Cuz Karen you know how many their were
when you gave them to me...well...add in two baby happy sets of grandparents and
OMG the clothes!!!  I went through them and took out any that could go for boys
and set them aside.  There weren't many to be honest.  Lots of pink and purple.

I have a baby tub and a bath ring too if you need them; and infant seat bases. 
Actually soon we'll have the infant seat free too.  Bob refuses to give it up
until he absolutely has to.  He's too lazy to work the other one.  Also, I have
your moblie too; the remote controlled one.  Tiff sure loved that thing bsck in
the day. It's hard to imagine she is almost a year old already!

Anyway...let me know what you want/need.  Most of it was yours anyway, and what
wasn't I'll be more than glad to part with at this point.  She is working real
hard on walking, and the less stuff for her to get in to the better :)  

KF

There was spell check?!

K~

You married me!

Anyway, webmail should be back up and upgraded to the latest greatest version.
Let me know if you find any problems. Spell checking is currently broken for
some reason. I checked and it was broken in the previous version as well.

Who knows.

Bob

I keep telling hum that...

KF

Your Flaky!

J

I'm gonna be working on the webmail server this afternoon so if it's flaky,
that's why.

Bob

Oh no...I have to take some of the credit/blame!  She has a lot of me in her! :-)
Help us all!!!  LOL!

K~

Are you sure she isn't a little bit(just a little bit) like a little Karen?  You
can't blame it all on John.  Well, you can I guess if you really want to.  Or,
you could just tell people that she came that way.  That's what I do :)

Seriously though...grats!  One of each is cool. There is a big difference though!

KF

Congrats John And Karen .. Oh No A Little Johnny 

Yup - our package is now complete!  A little Karen and a little John!  Of
course, in our case they'll both be "little Johnnies!!!"  LOL!  Dreah is already
a mess!  She's well on her way to being a Daddy's Girl too!  I told him!!  :-)

Now to hope the little guy isn't a 10-pounder...!

K~

Woot! You get the full package deal!

Bob

WOOT!!!!!!
GRATS!!!!!


RAF

ITS A BOY!!!!!!


J

Sweet

Bob

Yeah Boy!!!!!  New Rush album comes out May 1st!!!!


J

Fuck off Bob!


RAF

things!!!


J

stuff..

Bob

YO! WHAT'S UP?!!!!!

PHILIP CRAVEN

BURN!!!!!!!


J

There's no cure for an empty head!

Bob

Probably should see a doctor Rick.


J

Sorry I couldn't make practice guys. My back is getting better and I will be 
ready next weekend. Bob have you been able to come up with a new configuration 
for recording?

RAF

I have commanded that no new gear pics go up until pictures of the baby go up
first.  There are like a million pictures of gear and the newest pictures of
Tiffany are from September or some crap.  So...tell him to get on it!!!!!!!!!!!

KF

Well then hurry up and take some different pics and get them on the site!!!

J

BTW John, you suck at taking gear pictures. I'm gonna have to do take different
pics to use on the site.

Bob

Indeed!!!! :o)


J

Well.. Sounds like a good return on an investment to me! Cost ya nothing and you
got roses and chocolates out of it! WTG!!

Bob

I did!!  My Sweetie gave me red roses and a box of chocolates - YUMMY!!  :-)

I gave him..................a good time!  ha!

K~

I hope everyone had a good valentine's day

Bob

Shake a leg Bob!

K~

Get busy then!!!!

J

Gotta download em off the camera first.

Bob

Post them pics damnit!!!!


J

"good" as in better than before!  ha!

K~

Depends on what you call "good"..

Ryan, you can start practicing after work now. Just remember to lock up when you
leave!

Bob

I have to admit I was floored that Bob was doing manual labor!!  And,
voluntarily doing it!  I had to check the interent for some type of catastrophic
happening in the world!  LOL!!  

I bet it looks good!

K~

hey just curious.but now that part of the walls are done, does that mean i can 
practice or do i need to wait longer.... either way im in no hurry. i havent 
really had any spare time to do so, but let me know either way plz

RAJ

Hey gang..I am so bored sitting here at work. So I decided to check out the 
wall... Thanks Bob, it was no problem and isn't that was family does. Oh by the 
way Still no Internet LOL tlak to everyone later

Matt

I am not a carpenter! We got most of the sheetrock hung and the door mostly
installed for the studio. Gotta thank Matt. He hung in there with us for a long
time. 

We're going to finish up on Tuesday. I'd say the next goal will be getting some
heating and air piped into the studio, then finishing the bathroom.

After that we'll finish the walls of the studio itself and do something with the
floors, then put in the drop ceiling and finish the last bits of the sound
proofing and acoustical damping.

Bob

Yeah it sucks.


J

I really hate working weekends =/

Bob

"You swing too hard, ASS!!!... I SWEAR!!!"


J

Yeah...Bring it!!! 

J

By all means.. Go there!!

Bob

I'm not even going there...

I'm all about heavy and fast.

Bob

I got something new to lay on you guys this weekend. Came up with it today. 
Very heavy, very fast....very cool.

J

hey starting saturday i have community service from ..9-5 and sunday 1-5 so we 
will be able to work around that schedule no prob.
raj

True!  That's probably because "fun" has no price tag.  Hell, I remember
dropping $100 at the bars on the weekends - ha!  Of course, that did come with a
price...AKA HANG OVER!  LOL!

K~

It's soooo easy to lose a ton of money in casinos. It's odd because you tend to
look at money differently when there. If you dropped $100 walking down the
street and figured out later it was gone you really feel it. If you lose $100 on
the roulette wheel it doesn't seem to sting quite as bad..

Bob

Vegas was a blast!!  My meeting went well too.  We didn't really win or loose. 
I hit on the slots, but only 70 and 80 bucks to which I immediately cashed in! 
John and I played roulette for about 3 hours - I at least walked away with most
of what I started with - it was fun!  Some dude walked up, laid $400 on black to
win an lost - he simply walked away like it was nothing.  I was like WTF dude -
give me that money if you don't need it!!  

We saw Carrot Top - left that show with our stomachs hurting from laughing so
hard!!  We also saw a Hypnosis Gone Wild XXX show.  Not much XXX about it just a
few sexual innunedoes...darnit!  

Back to reality...blah...

And John Jr., as I call it, is doing well!  I'm right at 14 weeks today.  It's
an active little guy.  We'll know for sure the sex next month.

K~

Why not, we do for everything else.


J

Don't blame me.. 

Bob

just read the lyrics to 'you stand accused' Bob you are twisted!

PMF

4 straight hours at the craps table lastnight.....down 2 hundred...free drinks
for 4 hours = slightly hammered John! :o)


J

Looking forward to it!! 1p till when? And are we gonna record??
raj

I'm thinking we should jam at 1pm Sunday guys. John is just SOL since he'll be
on a plane at that time.

Bob

Well I st through an hour long lesson for the craps table so maybe that will help!

J

Hopefully John will avoid the craps!

Bob

yeah my chicken was quite delish.. yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
raj

I'm a carnivore. My system would have went into shock.. I admit..

Bob

ROFL!!  And your body would have went into convulsions!!

K~

Blasphemy!

Bob

You could have had a salad...LOL!

K~

mmm.. Prime Rib.. mmmm. hole in wallet...

Bob

thanks RICK and in case you were unaware we going to dinner tonight at 7:00 or 
so. We will be going to out back for ME B-DAY after practice

raj

Happy get another year older day!


RAF

just wanted to say whats up guys and, that im having a somewhat party at my 
dads for my birthday.  I dont know what time it will be over but i would still 
like to mabey go out later that night, and would enjoy the company of the 
badest band in ATLANTA YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  PEACE

raj

Look for a minimum of 6 months to go by before either happens. We are still
getting up-to-speed on the existing material, looking for a singer, and writing
the rest of the songs that would fill out an album.

Bob

So...

any updates on when a CD is going to be cut, or if your gonna book any shows
anytime soon?

-Ben

Because your a tool.

J

Why is it there always seems to be a new picture in the image gallery that 
consists of me flippin someone off?


RAF

How does the download counter look?

RAF

Cool.

J

Added a couple more pictures to the image gallery.

Bob

Fixed. And we just passed 3000 unique visitors on the main page counter.

Bob

Bob and John's names are backwards.


RAF

Looks awesome!!
A

Better.
KF

Much better!

J

I updated the band image on the main page. I also created a new banner image on
the band page which includes Ryan. Lemme know what you think.

Bob

You swallow!

J

You suck!

Bob

I work 10-6 on Saturday and 1-5 on Sunday.


J

I'm off both days, guess it depends on John's schedule.
Just copy em on your laptop and bring that over.

Bob

sure thing i was wondering.........how i would beable to get those to ya ill 
bring them with me on (?) what day have we decided to jam??

Ryan, make sure to bring me those pictures that were taken on your camera on
Monday. We need new pictures for the gallery!

Bob

Lets all make this a fantastic year!!!!!!


J

Happy New Year everyone. This year should see the release of our first album!

Bob

another graphic for the band.

-Ben

You are more than welcome to use the image however you want.
Can't wait for the CD to be recorded and released.

-Ben

Thanks man, I like the image as well....nice job. Hope you enjoy the music.
We will be recording soon and adding some more to the site. 


RAF

I fixed it so it would display correctly. Looks cool man..

Mind if I download it and add it to the Image Gallery?

Bob

hey- I made the image from scratch.  I'm a friend of Ryan's from his work.

-Ben

Where the hell did that last post come from?


RAF

I'm all for starting early and playing most of the day. Rick has a guy that
wants to come sing for us so we'll also try to squeeze that in as well.

I can bet you're chomping at the bit to play man. I hate that you can't play
more often than we jam because the kit is in my basement. Finding a practice
space more accessible to you during the week is also on the agenda for this year.

Bob

ide like to play all day if at all possible... i got a digital camera xmas so 
there will be lots of new pix to be taken YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

cant wait till monday........its really killing me not being able to play the 
DRUMS ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh boy its killing me.... how long have we decided to play??

And lots of it..

Bob

Stuff and Things!!


J

There are now an ungodly amount of pictures on the family site from John and
Karen's wedding.

Enjoy!

Bob

Happy Holidays to all.......



RAF

Once you've logged into your webmail account from that machine it will remember
who you are and tell you if you have new email or any events listed on your
calendar that are coming up.

Bob

why does it say ryan's calendar at bottom?     and merry........... to 
everyone and even happier new year...
RAJ

BAH HUMBUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



RAF

There won't be any jamming this weekend due to the Christmas holiday. Just way
too much running around to do for us all to mesh our schedules together. We
shall pick up again New Year's weekend.

Happy/Merry [insert holiday] to everyone!

Bob

Thanks!  It's still sinking in...

Those "tards" also schedule graduation the day after finals so if you're border
line on a grade...you really don't know if you're graduating, but get to go
through the motions!  How F Uped is that?!  But, I got 2B's and an A so it was
real for me - woohoo!

I did allow myself 1 glass of wine given my 'condition' :-)
K~

They are tards on a grand scale!!!


J

Those tards over there...


Bob

Yeah, what tards schedule graduation during the day on a week day?  Not cool!

KF

Congrats Karen!!!
hope to see ya'll soon!
Dana

Grats!! Now all we need is to get John's 15 year college education completed!!

I wanted to go, but who knew the bastards would schedule it during work hours..

Bob

Well, I finally did it...GRADUATED!!!!  Happy Dance!!!  Holly hell I didn't that
day would ever get here!  

Time for life now!  :-)

K~

We've decided that when we start to play shows, we're going to likely have to
come off with at least a few cover tunes. To that end we have decided that each
person in the band will pick a song which we will cover. We're not a cover band,
and in general we would rather devote our time to composing and practicing our
own music. 

We're dedicating our covers to the bands and songs that tend to define our
individual influences. The list of our current planned cover songs follows:

Rick's pick - Before I Forget - by Slipknot, album: The Subliminal Verses
Ryan's pick - Schism - by Tool, album: Lateralus
John's pick - Tornado Of Souls - by Megadeth, album: Rust In Peace
Bob's pick - To Tame A Land - by Iron Maiden, album: Piece Of Mind

Once we get a singer he/she will also pick a song to cover.

Bob

The energy the 4 of us are creating when we jam is getting intense. The flood
gates are about to burst and we are really going to have some kick ass
compositions for everyone to enjoy soon. We are just trying to get caught up on
recording and getting this album put together. Keep on checking the website and
stay tuned for some serious shredding!!!!

J

Doing just fine here. Keep checking the site. As soon as we can we'll likely
throw up some jam session recordings, etc. 

I'm sure we'll do another get together again soon. Though my guess is it will
likely be in the spring.

Bob

Just stoppin by to say HELLO!!! Looking forward to hearing how you guys sound
with the new drummer. I am no longer working nights and weekends, so perhaps we
could have a little get together again soon. I would be glad to host if everyone
dosent mind driving to marietta....
 
hope everyone is good....


dana and jeff

Just a reminder, Dimebag Darrel, guitarist for Pantera, was killed by a 
lunatic on Dec. 8, 2004. He is missed and not forgotten by those who
are still influenced by his unique and unequalled gift to the music world.

Rest well Dimebag.
RAF

awesome looking forward to it very much...........and that be great thanks

RAJ

We're due to jam a good bit this Sunday. We might even get a little rough
recording of us practicing. We'll let ya know.

Bob

Sure thing man. I'll happily wipe windows and install Linux for ya..

Bob

can i bring my computer over on sunday and you can help me with what ever i 
need to do to get it workin??
RAJ

I'm not so sure you want me to email you 14MB

Bob

still have not been able to get that DAMN song................HELP!!!!! can 
you email it to me or something??

RAJ

It might help!


J

Am I going to have to break out the bug spray?

Bob

Chirp.......Chirp........Chirp.........Chirp..........

Crickets chirping................

I look forward to some interesting times ahead as well..

Bob

just wanted to thank the 3 of you guys for allowing me the privallige of being 
in THE band. I see great things ahead of us LATER 
RJ

It was so good it would almost be worth the listeria.

Bob

Thanks to Honey-Baked Ham, there may be a massive drop in the human population
also!!!!


J

There was a massive drop in the Turkey population recently!

Bob

Happy Turkey Day!


J

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

KF

Get your new drummer hooked on Everquest.  Gratz!  Now come tour California.

Galanity

Ya.. That's what we did last night after you left.

That new bass effects processor kicks ass.. I'm going to program some effects
into it tonight. 

Bob

Ryan's pic looks real cool in the Band section!


J

John just bought himself a new practice amp! 

So John, send me a picture of it with specs so I can add it to your gear page.

Ryan, I need you to type up a bio of yourself and your music background so I can
add it to your band member profile. While you're at it I could use specs and
pics of any music gear you have.

Bob

I added some new pics to the Image Gallery

Bob

congrats on on getting a new drummer

E.Wulff

Delusional Mind is pleased to welcome Ryan Judkins into the band on percussion. 

Once he has gotten up to speed with the existing songs we will have him lay down
new drum tracks for them and release the updated versions. We will then be
looking to forge ahead in getting the newer material recorded and mixed.

I hope she has enough pain killers to withstand the noise level of the drums 
and bass combination, cause as everyone knows, guitars aren't that noisy.

Hurry up and get better sis!!!

RAF

Kristi lived through getting her wisdom teeth removed today.. She's a little
doped up and talks funny. But other than that she's fine.

Bob

no prob. the next time I go out there i will bring the satch model with me. i 
am happy you enjoyed the cd

I want to congratulate the owner of the IP 82.118.204.18 for the accomplishment
of getting me to ban them from ever connecting to my server again. (not that
they can read this from that address now).

I really don't mind someone running a stream ripper to record our radio station,
but letting it run for 8 hours when we have maybe 30 minutes of content just
rubs me the wrong way.

Bob

I wrote up a very brief history of the band from it's roots in 1992 to the
present. It's available from the Band page. 

Mouse, if you read this, I linked to one of your pictures as a past member of
the band. If you have a problem with your picture being on here let me know and
I'll remove it.

Bob

We're going to have a guest drummer sitting in with us this weekend. I'm looking
forward to playing with a human drummer again. 

That means we'll be spending this weekend's session jamming and not recording
though, so don't expect any releases this week!

Bob

I changed the layout of the music page a little to simplify the layout of the
songs on the page.

Bob

Yeah Eddie I listened to it, there are some really awesome tracks. 
Next time you guys come up bring the Satriani with you, I wouls like to check 
it out on an amp.

RAF

whats up rick? it is your brother inlaw Eddie can't wait to play some guitar 
together again even though I am horrible. did you check out the cd i made for 
you? let me know what you think

Dreah had a blast lastnight her first time trick-or-treating! She really got
into it. Cant wait till next year!!


J

Happy Halloween!

Bob

oh she's just growing up - that's all!

Poor Cain...too many and at such a young age too!

K~

It's been a rough year for my wife =(

Bob

Pie, I like pie.  If like a woman talked to me like that I'd be like:  "HEY! 
Get your bitch ass in the kitchen and make me some pie!"  But anyway...

Took Caine to the dentist again today.  He's up to 3 root canals/crowns now. 
We've got one to go and a filling that may turn into another crown once they get
in and get a look at it.  Poor little guy; he grinds his teeth apparently.  He
is a trooper though, doesn't faze him at all to have all that work done.  Me on
the other hand..I get to go on the 9th and get all my wisdom teeth cut out.  I
am not really looking forward to that.  They are at least going to knock me out
though.  I expect I'll be out of commission for a few days after that one.

KF

Hahahahahahaha!

I like pie.

J

Tell me about it


Bob

Ya Ol Fart!

And a daunting question it is. We'll see what we can come up with. Being done
with school kicks ass. I'm quite happy I'm done. Though it's been 10 years since
I graduated from college.. God damn I'm old.


Bob

Howdy!

Dude...between school, work, raising a little one and dealing with family
issues, I'm getting my butt kicked!  Just got around to visiting the wall today
- yup, it's been a while.  

Not to mention, John and I hardly get to see each other much these days...

Rick - saw the baby pictures - he's a cuttie!  I'm sure you're a proud!

If school doesn't kick my butt, I graduate in December - WOOHOO!!  Expect a
party! It's been a long, but fun and educational road!  I'm glad it's about over
though. 

Ok, the little one just woke up...back to being Mommie. 

Don't forget we are due a night of cards - when we exactly squeeze it into our
schedule is the question...

Later,

K~

The Voices keep me company.

Bob

Your never alone.


J

I feel so lonely on here now =(

Bob

We jammed yesterday, we kicked ass yesterday. Planning on recording next weekend.

Bob

Everyone is busy atm.......


RAF

I fear activity on the board has dropped significantly.. We need Kristi and
Karen to chime in more. We aren't getting enough abuse anymore.

Bob

We jammed on Sunday evening. We sucked. But that's to be expected after almost 2
months of not jamming. I'm guessing next weekend we will jam again so we can
work out the kinks. Hopefully we'll be ready to start recording again the
weekend after that.

Bob

Thanks for the kind words!


J

You guys kick ass.. Looking forward to your first release!!

-Davey

I have another new one in the works also. I'll tell ya more later.

RAF

We're set to start jamming again this Sunday. It will be yet another climb back
onto the saddle but hopefully we should get the kinks worked out this weekend
and start recording the weekend after that.

Bob

Matt, I never got a chance to look at the page you listed below. Lemme know if
you need hosting. I can host it on this server. But it'll be up to you to
register a domain unless you want to live with something.treborlogic.com

Bob

It wasn't by choice. The people at the hospital didn't bother to show up to put
in the epidural until she was 8cm dialated and contracting so hard and fast that
she couldn't hold still long enough for them to get the needle into her spine.

Bob

Impressive! I dont think I will be able to be that brave if and when I ever have
on of my own. Im a wuss.

Dana

He was natural, with no pain meds at all..

Bob

Just looked at the new baby pictures. What a GORGEOUS little man!! I bet mama
and daddy are really proud. Was he c-section? He looked too pretty to be
natural.....
Congrats again.

On another note.... My husband Jeff GOT A JOB!!! Woo Hoo!!!

As far as a band update goes:

Now that the weddings, honeymoons, births, etc are out of the way, we should be
getting back on track jamming and recording regularly over the next several weeks.

Bob

Pictures of Dale Robert Faulkner are now available on the family site.


Bob

Congrats on new baby!! 
Dana

HEY everyone, I have finally decided to add my mark to the wall. Hope everyone 
is well.  I am currently working on a couple projects, school and fun stuff. 
Finally have my server up with a little web page. the following IP will be good 
for a few hours (I believe). Everyone take care. Still have not forgotten about 
the pics Bob. Congratulations Rick and Phyllis

66.156.13.230
66.156.13.230/audio.htm

Matt

Congratulations Rick and Phyllis on the birth of their son!

Bob

Well you will get them tonight, I'll go by and send them to you.


RAF

she still hasn't sent them to me.

Bob

Just add the pics Mom sent you to the family site.



RAF

just give me a good reason to add code to filter trailing new lines..

bob

But that is how my posts stand out.



RAF

The radio stations appear to be down. The server that runs them is down for some
reason. The power strip that supplies that machine from the UPS is about 20
years old and has been a little unreliable lately. It may have finally given up
the ghost. I'll try to get it back up and running tonight.


Bob

Nope. And just so you know, the wall will automatically add white space to the
end of your post so you don't need to hit enter 12 times after your name.


Bob

Bob,
Did mom send you the pics she has on her camera from the wedding yet?



RAF

Not sure, but it's working fine for me. I was adding some pictures last night
when you posted, but adding them should not have caused any problems for you.

Bob

Not there either, but I remembered what it was. I show the page with the links,
but when I click them I get not found on server. Are you working on it, or do I
need to do something else???

Check your bulk email folder. yahoo hates my mail server.

Bob

I didn't get anything from ya. Hmmm.....
Can you try again?

Thanks,
D.

Dana,
That is only an 1/8th of the pictures taken. There are more coming whenever Bob 
decides to post them.


RAF

I emailed you the address, and I covered up your email address on the wall.. I
don't like feeding spammers any more addresses than we have to.

Bob

Bob,
Can you email me the family site? We werent able to get back from florida in
time to make the wedding. Email xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx. I dont want to have to
wait till they get back from hawaii to see them!!
Thanks,
Dana

For anyone who is confused, John and Karen were married yesterday at 3pm in
Woodstock City Park. For those that know the address to the family site, I am
starting to put up the amateur pictures now. I'll add the pro shots once we get
them in (couple of weeks).

Bob

Grats guys!  Here's to many long and happy years together, and all the happiness
life can bring!  Have fun; see ya when you get back!

Kristi, Bob, Caine, and Tiffany

CONGRATS JOHN AND KAREN, AND WE HOPE YOU GUYS ARE HAPPY FOR MANY YEARS TO COME!


RAF
and family.

That's exactly the quality of discussion I want people to see when they visit
the band's website!

Bob

With your farts, I'm sure it would not be a problem.

KF

maybe if you aim at it.

bob

What about farting during the ceremony??? Do you think the mic will be 
sensitive enough to pick up the sound?



RAF

are you going to freak out when i fart in the microphone as you're walking down
the gazebo steps?

Bob

Your error is of not my concern, just that you get there at 4! 

We'll be done by 5!

:-)
K~

I'm not kidding I thought it was at 5, I arranged to get off from work at 4.


RAF

Yeah...you two are funny!

K~

I'll try to get off.. err.. nm

Bob

I was told 5.... I'll try to get off from work earlier.


RAF


P.S. I've been there 3 times I pretty much know the drill hehe.

Yes, be there at 4:00 sharp!

K~

Are we meeting at the gazeebo for the rehersal?


RAF

3 more days!!!!!!


J

we had some file name overlap apparantly. i'll dig up the images that were
replaced, then rename and restore them.

Bob

Bob, on the family site if you click on the 2 pics of dad holding Tiffany 
different pictures pop up.


RAF

5 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!

K~

that place has gone downhill when it comes to the games available. most of those
games could be run on a 5 year old pc.


Bob

And the shooting gallery.... It is amazing how we have the technology of today 
and we spend the most time on the simplest game in the place.



RAF

Drunken pod racing!

Bob

The party was fantastic! We had a blast. I dont remember getting home, so it
must have been good!!


J

So John, how was the party? Or, better yet, how's your head?

KF

No hours, minutes, and seconds?

Bob

No comment needed.


RAF

EIGHT MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

K~

No comment.


Bob

I believe there is a God and a heaven....because I have been through hell!


RAF

That priest giving us all the "look" all 80 times he mentioned the word
"nonbelievers" was epic.


Bob

We are infidels you know!

KF

Not really

Bob

Surprise!

K~

NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT A CHURCH!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN BARRED FROM MOST 
CHURCHES!!!!!!
They all know I am a sinner as soon as they see me!



RAF

Can't be any worse than the Greek Orthdox experience!  Talk about standing out!
 Actually, that part was kinda cool :-) 

It's actually in the Fellowship Hall part of it - meant to say that.

14 more days...

K~

Can I yell, "It burns us!" when I walk into it?

Bob

Right on!

BTW - We have officially moved the reception due to capacity issues.  It's now
at the Woodstock Community Church, right across the street from the Woodstock
Park where everyone will park - how convenient?!  We'll have official flyers in
the Program so everyone will know.

15 more days!!

K~

By the way John and Karen, after you get back from the honeymoon be prepared to
play some cards.. We haven't played in a while.

Bob

Everything will fall into place, lets just hope its not us that does the falling!!!


J

I'm glad Rick cleared up the fact that they don't suck in any good ways.

What will happen is in the middle of the ceremony I'll fall on Rick, and we'll
fall like dominoes down the steps.

Bob

Just balance yourself so you're not in the middle and break it!  

Now, that would be funny!

K~

Hell even if you're wearing no shoes be careful on those steps. THEY SUCK IN 
MANY WAYS!!!!



RAF


P.S. and none of them are good.

My balance has deteriorated over the years. Due to various.. um.. things..

All I can say is if you're going to be wearing heels, be careful. 

Bob

I don't bitch I gripe..... there's a difference.


RAF

Damn, you big ol sissy's - can't you balanace after all these years?

There will be no bitching except from the Bride - got that?! :-p

K~

Yeah the steps on the gazeebo are not very sturdy. But on the upside we fall we 
sue Woodstock.




RAF

"I'm not quite sure this floor is entirely stable!"

C3-PO

I fear the gazebo.

Bob

Black Label Society- The Blessed Hellride.



RAF

No, Silly...we're playing Highway to Hell by AC/DC!

K~

We're playing Slayer - Raining Blood as you walk down the aisle right?

Bob

Only 3 more weeks before the Big Day!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

:-)

K~

Oh well, saved me the gas and gave John a good reason to stop by on the way home
anyway..

Be sure to check out Rick's new picture on the The Band page.
Can we say, guitar god?

Bob

Hey - thank you!!  I was actually here, just on the phone with my boss and
couldn't click over.  Thanks for the gift!!  

I meant to post earlier...I wasn't mad or anything when I posted below.  It was
really a joke between me and John, but that doesn't really come across in the
post...hard to do that on email...It's all good.  I'm trying not to stress...for
the most part it's working.  Once I tie up a few loose ends, I'm chillin til
it's time to party!!  And a few good laughts! :-)

K~

Happy Birthday (tomorrow) Karen! I was going to drop your present off today but
you weren't home when I called.  Sooo, John is gonna bring it to you tonight.

Bob

It's not about me.. It's about the band.. Missing a weekend isn't a disaster,
but we just have too much of a history of missing 12 weekends in a row. If I
seem rigid on maintaining a once a week schedule please keep this in mind; This
album has been in "production" for 4 years. I don't want it to be 4 more before
it's finished.

Don't stress out about the wedding. You're supposed to enjoy the occasion, not
give yourself high blood pressure over it! Everything will go fine. And if it
doesn't, we'll all have something to sit around and laugh about 20 years from now.

Bob

It's certainly is a change!  

And...no practice on Saturday...because it's not all about Bob!

We still have wedding stuff to do.  If ya want to practice, practice setting up
the gazebo.  We start classes next week so it's crunch time and the Bride is
starting to stress...

K~

Well congrats on the new job! I know how you feel Karen, I sort of dread Jeff
getting a job after he graduates. Im used to him being available any time I need
him! 

I bet. There are days that go by where I barely get to see my family. It sucks.

Bob

And...it's been quite a change for me and Dreah.  We're used to John being here
every day...:-(  But, at least he has a job he likes going to every day!

K~

I now work for Ken Stanton Music.


J

New Job? 
Details please....

Its gonna be rought getting it together soon. My new job has me working on every
other sunday.

J

We're still putting the song together, we have a lot of parts worked out, the
challenge now is weaving them together.. I'm hoping within a month or 2 to have
it posted.

Bob

When are you going to get the new music up???

If Jeff gets his job he interviewed for, and I get off weekends, I will have
everyone for a cookout soon. We DID get the gaping hole in the deck fixed :P

Dana

Didn't notice any difference at all.


RAF

Don't everyone post at once.. Don't know if the server can handle it.

Bob

Wow, well.. That was what you call a hard upgrade.. Turns out the primary hard
drive on the server was in the final stages of dying horribly, and when I shut
down the server to do the upgrade, it pretty much gave up.

Since I have no more small/old drives lying around, I had to pull the storage
drive off my file server to use on this machine. So, the machine has moved from
a pentium 200 mmx with 96MB of ram, to a pentium 3 500 with 128MB of ram. It's
also moved from an old 3.8GB PIO mode 4 drive to a 27GB UDMA 66 drive.

We shouldn't have any space issues on the web server for some time.
Luckily, the day I happened to do this fell right on the day my file server
makes an automatic backup of this server, so I was able to restore the machine
to the state it was in at 6am today. I did manage to recover the graffiti wall
database and such off the dead drive, so we even got back our posts that
happened today. 

Those who use the wall, and webmail, should notice a pretty drastic difference
in speed.

Bob

Cool.


J

Just to let people know, I'm planning on doing some upgrades on the server 
tonight(add memory, move to a faster cpu, etc). So expect some downtime tonight.

Bob

Always nice to see someone new stop by.

Bob

FIRST POST!!!  WOOHOO!... lol

ood luck, I know how hard the road is that a musician / entertainer lives, I 
lived it myself.  Best of luck to Dilusional Mind (once they find a vox).

I installed a new log analyzer on the server. Yields some interesting info about
how much traffic the site sees.

I'll show you guys on Sunday.

Bob

More bordom to go around.


RAF

Another day, another new version of the wall..

Bob

It was my fault. I couldnt resist after Rick's post.


J

Somehow we were derailed into quoting Megadeth lyrics..

Bob

What do ya mean I don't support the system?


I go to court when I have to.

If there's a new way...
I'll be the first in line....
but itd better work this time.

what do you mean i ain't kind?

just not your kind..

Peace sells.......But who's buying?

"whadda ya mean I hurt your feelings??...I didnt know ya had any feelings!"

Dave Mustaine

ouch..... You hurt my feelings.

BURN!!!!!!


J

When we get a new picture of you where you don't look gay.

Bob

um didn't know you made one till last night.
When is mine gonna be done?



RAF

And no mention of mine =(

Bob

John's pic for the band page kicks ass.


RAF

Well, the program seemed to work fine.  Just have to buy ink for the printer so
we can print it out.

KF

Someone needs to remember music that we write and not what they just spewed
from their memory. 



RAF

Exactly

Bob

huh?

Don't worry.. We won't..

Especially after I add that I have completely removed the function that reads
and parses the wall's configuration file and replaced it with a class I have
developed which manages the configuration file as an object. The class is
completely independant of graffiti wall so I can use it in other projects now =)

Bob

Don't everyone talk at once!


RAF

More DNS, please...

Hey - Kristi - how did the will program work?  

K~

I added some more features to the wall's code. I'm doing a review to look for
obvious security holes, but other than that the code is final and is now at
version 1.0!

Bob

I changed the code for the wall some more! I set it so that the default mode
(classic or tables) can be set by the admin (me). This wall will now default to
tables the 1st time you visit.

I also added an option so the admin (again, me) can set what character the wall
will generate to seperate the date and text of a post when in classic mode.
Before it was hard coded to be a '='. I have set it to '-' for now. If you have
an interesting idea for a character to use, let me know.

Bob

The writing process takes time and then the recording process takes even longer.
We should have the song in around 3 weeks total and then practice it till it 
makes our fingers bleed. Then we record it. So it takes some time.


RAF

Honestly we got alot done yesturday. If we can have a few weeks like that then
we should atleast have 1 song done.


J

2012

Bob

What year?


RAF

Just to provide a bit of band news, we jammed yesterday and worked out quite a
bit of a new song. I know the updates are coming slow and the releases are even
slower, but we ARE working on new material. I would like to have the album ready
to release (sans real drums and vocals) by the end of the year.

Bob

They have been only slightly altered, if at all. And when I alter them, I don't
use photoshop. They were GIMPed!

Bob

Those were photoshopped!!!!!


J

There are pictures of you wobbling in the family gallery!

Bob

You dont have pictures, or video. You cant prove a thing!!


J

So have I..

Bob

I've seen you wobble John!


RAF

Im stable....I dont wobble or nothin!!!


J

While none of us may be stable, I would like the Graffiti Wall to be.

Bob

What's this stable you speak of?

Ok, I made more changes and I'm not convinced it's stable..

We'll see.


Bob

Weirdness and DNS...what a combination!

GEEK!  LOL!!

K~

when you email all the info to me like i said to.


Bob

When are you going to add the links Johm and I suggested?


RAF

That was the goal.

I'll be working on it further today so expect some weirdness.

Bob

Seems the same as it did yesturday.


J

You suck!!!!!!








Yeah, it's working right.




RAF

I have made some more changes to the guts of this beast. I *think* it's working
right now. We'll see.

Bob

I'm testing some more changes in the wall's code. Please be patient if it's
acting odd.

Bob

May be the system here at work.


RAF

Doesn't seem any slower to me when I click it. Comes right up.

Bob

No, when I hit the add your mark button it takes a few seconds to load.


RAF

How is it slow? Are you still having it display all 1400 entries?

Bob

Does slow as hell count as a problem?

RAF

I've made some very major changes to the guts of Graffiti Wall. For all intents
we're running new code for the database engine. More changes are to follow, but
as with any new code, watch for any problems and let me know about them.


Bob

A couple of new pics of Rick and John are in the image gallery. And new pictures
of John's new Jackson and my Smith are in the equipment section.

Bob

I was thinking the same thing.


J

Hmmm..... 2 new guitars, new sounds, new song in the works, sounds like a plan.



RAF

A picture of John's new guitar is also in the equipment section.

Bob

A picture of Rick's new guitar is in his guitar section under the Equipment
section of the site.

Bob 

I'm going tonight. It will be there Sunday.


RAF

Bring it Sunday so we can see/hear it!!


J

Well there is a new addition to my collection of guitars.
I got it yesterday, pictures available soon.


RAF

Thanks, I just figured it would be nice to have a picture of us that wasn't 3
years old.

Bob

I forgot to sign that last post. I like the new look!
Dana

Sweet new look to the pic on the front page!

And a stuck CAPS LOCK key it seems.

Bob

I GOT 8's THE ONLY SET THEY HAD!

at least 4 years Bob.... get it right!


RAF

We jam this Sunday. We're slowly working on a new song so you should be hearing
it in a couple of years!

Bob

hukt on foniks wurked 4 john

kf

Well, You can't say he had a boring life.

Bob

Man....


That sucks.



RAF

Yeah, I heard about that yesturday. Sad news indeed.



J

For those who missed it, Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd died last Friday.

Bob

Just to keep people informed, I reorganized a fair amount of the code in
graffiti wall. It appears to be working fine, just wanted to let you know. In
case you run into bugs, tell me about them.


Bob

We just started to work on a new song last week. It is a long and tiring 
process but the end result pretty much rocks.



RAF

Well in that case....

Jeff and I would LOVE to come hear you guys practice some time. We really
enjoyed the clips you posted, you guys need to put some new stuff up!

Jammers!

And Dana, Rick is right. This wall is here to serve as a place for whoever to
say whatever they want. It does not have to be band related. Anyone is allowed
to post here for any reason. In fact, the best use this wall has had is to
provide an easy way for old friends to reconnect.

Bob

BTW, due to new circumstances I will be able to make practice this coming 
Sunday. So get ready slackers.



RAF

Dana,
You can post here as much as you want, there is no intrusion.
This is basically what this wall is for. Keeping in touch and having fun.
Feel free to post anytime you want.


RAF

Hi all,

Posted to the Memorial page, if you want to read my memories of Gray.
I probably wont post on your grafitti wall  again. I dont want to intrude on you
guys. I would love to keep in touch though, if anyone wishes to reach me, John
has my number and he and Matt both have my email addresses. Hope everyone had a
safe and happy Fourth, and I hope to hear from you guys.

love,
Dana

already have plans to go to my dad's for a cookout. but happy b-day!


Bob

i got a three day weekend!!  and i get to turn a year older on tuesday...if you 
all wanna come by daddy's house for a cookout you're more than welcome!!

What is this thing called "work" you all speak of???


J

well put!

Bob

Well, then you suck.  
KF

I get a 4 day weekend..... rub rub rub rub rub.....



RAF

way to rub it in

Bob

I do too, but at least I work from home - woohoo!

K~

who gets a 4 day weekend? i work on monday.

bob

4 DAY WEEKEND YEEEEEFUCKINHAAAAAAWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

Happy July 1st!  

There's a new post :-)

K~

Since nobody feels like posting anything I'll just say I made an update to the
Image Gallery code which adds arrows to go to the previous and next pages, in
addition to the direct page links that were already there.

In other news, I have spent the last week or so heavily modifying the code for
Graffiti Wall. You should notice little difference in what you see here. Other
than the post acknowledgement page to get rid of double posts, the changes were
to the internal nuts and bolts. More is to come.

Bob

well, the server went down this morning. luckily my lovely wife brought it back
up when she got home. now i have something to play with until i get off work.

Bob

The radio stations should be back up and running. Enjoy!

Bob

Bummer.


J

The power went out this morning at about 8:50am. My UPS held the server up until
just after 10 but that was all it could do. The servers went down at that point.
The power was still off when I left for work, so I left the network set up to
*hopefully* come back up on it's own. By the time I made it to work the power
was restored and the server had brought itself back up. The server that hosts
the radio stations didn't come back up on it's own so until I get home tonight,
the radio stations are down.

Bob

Nothing yet. Still waiting for his family to provide them. I think Matt is
supposed to be scanning them and sending them to me. When I have them, they'll
be up on the memorial. I added some more pics to the memorial last night.

Bob

Any luck getting any pics of gray when he was little? I would love to see some
of those added. Hope everyone is doing well, sorry to hear about your guildie. I
will put his family  in my prayers. 

Dana

I second that sentiment.

Bob

Lets hope there is not a 3rd.


J

They come in 3's. If you believe in superstition that is.



Sorry to hear that another life has been taken at such a young age.
Please give my regards to those that knew him in the game and send 
his family my condolences.


RAF

I just logged on the guild forum and found out another guild member has died.
Hard times for the League. Another relatively young man, husband, father to an
11 year old son, victom of a heart attack. We missed the memorial service in the
game.

Bob

Double posts are the devil!

Bob

No more double posts?   Stop the insanity!!!!

Ok, I added a post acknowledge function to the wall. It will display a little
page to let you know your post has been applied and then should redirect you
back to the wall. Hitting refresh on the wall should no longer cause a double post!

I had to make a lot of changes in the code to get this to work so there may be
some bugs floating around.

Bob

That was actually a very interesting tour. At the end of it the park ranger
wound up recruiting John to help change the flag, and Kristi and Karen to help
remove and fold the flag that was taken down. 

Bob

that is so cool that you guys went to fort mchenry!  we used to go there every 
year when i was spending summers up there.  we spent my birthday up there a 
couple times.  i was looking at the pics thinking, "i have some of these same 
pictures..."  fun times.  i like going there.

john, you remember sitting on the cannons up at kennesaw mountain when we 
should have been in school?  
T

Well get to it slacker.....


RAF

I've been putting off writing a routine to check for duplicate posts. There is a
repost timeout that prevents double posting within 2 minutes. I'll come up with
something.

Bob

hmmm...did i refresh?  i'm not sure.  like i said my computer is a piece of 
crap.  i would rather blame the machine than have it be operator error.  :)
T

If you hit the refresh button it double posts.  One of those DNS things.
kf

i found 'em!!  all of 'em.  yay!!  i don't know how i double posted but oh 
well.  my computer sucks the big one.  blame it on that.  anyone out there know 
anything about computers?  heehee.  :)  hope everyone had a great father's day.

Oh, and pictures are under the general section at http://family.treborlogic.com

Bob

I'm gonna have to break down and add code to squash the double posts =(

And I DEFINITELY never claimed to be a spelling ace!

Bob

i wanna see pictures!  anyone else show up after i left?  hope to see everyone 
really soon!!  i miss everyone from the old days and it's great to finally meet 
the women that snagged the fellas!  boys, you done good!!

love to all!
tina

i wanna see pictures!  anyone else show up after i left?  hope to see everyone 
really soon!!  i miss everyone from the old days and it's great to finally meet 
the women that snagged the fellas!  boys, you done good!!

love to all!
tina

That's my husband....way to spell honey!!!!

Yes, I think falling through a hole in a deck would be a mood killer.

It was definately very nice to see everyone again.

Bob

It was great getting to see everyone over at John and Karen's today. Hopefully
we can do it again soon. I will volunteer my house as soon as I get the hole in
the deck fixed! 

No time to slack.... As they say, no rest for the wicked.

Bob

Happy Father's Day to all the guys!!!  Be sure to slack off this weekend in
honor of the holiday!

KF

Yeah he does, we need to get my computer updated Bob, in case I
decide to log in after he goes to bed. Never hurts to be prepared.



Laters,
RAF

Now Caine plays on his account =)

Bob

I quit playing EQ 2 years ago.


RAF

Well, since I can't even find time to play my main anymore, I don't need to
waste time on new characters I suppose- so I guess that would be a no for me as
well.

KF

Since the unlocking of expansions is going to be server-wide on Combine, I will
not be starting a toon on it since it will just be like every other server in a
few months.


J

I think John was looking into it. I'm not all that interested. Just another
ruleset for them to implement poorly. I'm pretty much done doing the level
grind. Fretlon is 70 and geared out the ass. I don't intend to start over on
another EQ server.

Bob

What?!  Must be more of that DNS stuff...

K~

hey are you guys thinking of doing the combine server?

rjr..

Yeah, no kidding Dude - I'd stayed home!

K~

awwww.  i feel so special now! it was funny when my boss said "what are you
doing here today" when i told her why i was waddling around the office.

Bob

Bob is being a very big boy!  I am very proud of him!

KF

They're in the freezer right now. I'm at work and I brought a ton of ice for the
day. the peas will come into play once i get home.

Bob

I can relate! Poor baby!!

Dreah has her 18-month checkup this morning and she gets MORE shots!  Poor thing
- I cried when she got her first shots!  Of course, now she looks at the
lady/nurse like what the *$(#* did you do that for?!  That's my girl!

How's Bob?  Are the Jolly Green Giant Frozen Peas his best friend?!  hahahaha

K~

Nothing wierd here, cept the occasional 360 degree head rotation and 
regurgitation of green pea soup with potatoes. Hmmm.. I don't remember eating 
that.... oh well. Hope everything is going better for Tiffany now that the 
torture is over.


RAF

Nope...nothing weird here that I can think of.  Poor Tiffy had to have her 2
month check up, though.  Four shots this go round!  It was a rough rest of the
day, LOL!

kf

Did anyone have anything freaky happen on 6-6-06?  I was on a conference call
with work and just had to let everyone know it was 6-6-6...one guy was like, oh
thanks, Karen - I have a flight this afternoon!  LOL!!  I try...hahaha!

K~

alternatively, if you click on the links button on the left side of this page,
his memorial site is the 1st link listed.

I got a picture of the flowers you sent, but since i didn''t want to use the
flash it's too blurry to read the cards.

Bob

Shane,

go here:

http://gray.treborlogic.com


J

Scroll down to Gray's pic and click on it. That will take you to the site.


RAF

bob,

  Where is the memorial page, let me know, thanks,


 Shane s. darby

Bob,

Thanks for the pics from the funeral. I wish I could have gone. I wonder if
Sandy would be willing to share any pics from when Gray was little for the
memorial? 

Congrats on your new addition! Perhaps I will get to see you and meet your wife
and baby soon..

Dana

We're back from Gray's funeral. I've added pictures to the memorial page.

Bob

yeah i checked there, i found his there, but your never went threw i guess. 

RJR.

It may have gone into the bulk folder.  I sent it from my treborlogic email; I
know when Bob sends me mail from his treborlogic mail to my yahoo account, it
goes into my junk mail.
KF

It could happen.  My typing ability sux as bad as you spelling ability.

KF

well i got the one from bob, kristi, your spelling must be off. since i read 
this a few hours ago i'm pretty stumped on what to think. the world has become 
smaller than it was yesterday.

RJR.

Kristi sent you an email at your yahoo account to let you know. I'll send you
another.

Bob

hey guys, its me passing by from paradise. i just read the thing about gray,, 
one of you email me what happened?

martack@yahoo.com

hey guys, its me passing by from paradise. i just read the thing about gray,, 
one of you email me what happened?

martack@yahoo.com

Our sun-FRIED knees are feeling much better today!  We can now bend without
pain.  It's called...Sunscreen...no actually it's called...USING sunscreen...LOL!

K~

It's probably going to be fairly quiet in here for a week or so. The holiday 
was ok. Not the greatest weekend ever but it was nice to hang out with everyone 
and let the kids have some fun. But anyway gotta get to work. 



Laters,
RAF

Don't everyone post at once or anything!  Hope everyone had a nice holiday 
weekend.  How goes the sunburn J and K?

KF

In this life we come across many souls, some kind and some not. When we lose a 
kind soul such as Gray's, it hurts not just those that knew him, but also the 
people that will never get to meet him and know his wit and charm. Gray was a 
friend that can never under any circumstances be replaced in this lifetime and 
will be greatly missed and always remembered. My heart goes out to his family 
and the friends of his that I never got to meet, but we share the same grief. 


Until we meet in the afterlife my friend,
Rest in peace.


Rick

Rest in peace Gray
Thanks for the memorial

--- In memorial ---

William Gray Sarandos
February 22, 1971 - May 25, 2006

He will be remembered, and missed.

I cut my left index finger anyway Bob. And it is a pretty bad cut. To the bone 
but it was a clean cut and yes it hurts. But if John wasn't going out of town I 
would still play. I need to come and pick up my black guitar and take it to Ken 
Stanton to get the bridge reset. Give me a call Bob and maybe we can go down 
there Sat. 




RAF

Guess that drives a nail in the coffin for my plans to jam on Sunday. Have fun
you 2!

Bob

We will be down at my folks place at Lake Sinclair this weekend.
Hope everyone has a fun/safe weekend!!

J

Happy long holiday weekend everyone!

KF

everyone!! please!!




try to contain your excitement.

Bob

excuses!

Bob

I hit refresh in webmail not on the wall.


RAF

Damn!!! .... sorry dude.

way to hit refresh and yes to posting the data again!

Bob

It's spelled Meghan... You got Savanah right. And yes a little me runnin around 
is gonna be great!


RAF

It's spelled Meghan... You got Savanah right. And yes a little me runnin around 
is gonna be great!


RAF

Savanah    Maghan - your MOM

Congrats!  

Another Rick in the World...oh nooooooooooooooooooo!  hahaha

K~

ok.... so I have to go to her house and search through her endless file of 
pics. 
Man you didn't make this easy did you. Phyllis has another check up visit Sat. 
maybe we can go by then and do that. 
I don't remember if I told eveyone on the site yet..... IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!!!


RAF

I downloaded a ton of pictures off Mom's camera to her computer the other day.
Pick through them and email or upload the pics of the girls you want on the site.

Bob

At least I care.


RAF

Picky bastard!

Bob

OK now why didn't you move the first sonogram and test from the faulkner duncan 
header to the dale header? And we gotta get some pics of the girls to you so 
you can set them up also.

RAF

Dale's sonograms are up on the family site.

Bob

You should have expected it!

Bob

And that my friends is my younger brother, the festering ass nugget himself.
I offer to help him rewire the outlets that are giving him problems and he 
gives me shit.

RAF

my bad.
 
Bob

He told you..sometime...geez pay attention!

KF

Butt-munch! Ass Hat! what else would you like me to call you?

Bob

If you would call me sometime, I might be able to come and help fix the wiring 
problem.


RAF

I had a wiring problem that killed the power to the ups that holds up all the
servers last night. It wound up draining the ups and the servers went down. I
had most services back up last night within 30 mintues, as far as I know, except
the radio stations. I brought those back up just now. If you notice anything
else broken on the site let me know.

Bob

Yep..sure do.

Ummmmm.... You suck!!!!!

Not happening. Kristi and I will be, um, indisposed. I have to work the Sunday
after that so it may be best to try and jam that Saturday.

Bob

Ummmm? Jam this Sunday?


RAF

Yeah I read that today. Finally get the ORIGINAL version on DVD!!! WOOT!!!!

Han shot first!!!

J

The temperature in Hell today is currently -20F.

In other news, George Lucas has announced he is releasing the original classic
Star Wars trilogy, the original unmolested versions, on DVD. 

Let the truth be known that Han shot first!

Bob

What's up John?

Nice page...I wouldn't mind hearing you guys jam someday. See you later!

David

I had my postpartum checkup today, and the midwife said she couldn't even tell I
had a baby.  Guess that means everything is going well.  I weighed in at about
20 lbs less than I weighed before I got pregnant.  My appt with the surgeon for
my gallbladder follow up is tomorrow.  Hopefully they will do something with my
bandages..they are itchy and driving me insane

KF

Tiffany had a Dr apppointment yesterday and weighed in at 9lbs 3ounces. she was
perfectly average in length and weight. she was above average in head
circumference (75th percentile). She's right on target and doing great.

Bob

Yeah we all know how complicated you are.    Glad you are better and home.



RAF

Well, since I haven't posted since I had my guts cut open, I thought I would.  
Okay, so they didn't cut me open per say.  It still hurt either way.  Lucky 
me,I had to have a "complicated case."  I not only had a gallbladder full of 
stones; one apparently got loose and got into my bile duct.  That inflamed my 
bile duct and my liver as well.  I was quite jaundiced when I went into the ER 
Friday night.  They said my bilirubin level was 4 times what it should have 
been.  They had to give me drugs Friday night and Saturday to get all that 
under control before they could operate Sunday.  Then, since I had a straggler 
in the duct, they had to go in Monday and run a tube to remove that.  When they 
got in there, they didn't see any stones, just a bunch of what they called 
sludge.  They made a cut in the opening of the bile duct to enlarge it just in 
case though.  They blew in this gas bubble so they could work; my GOD that 
SUCKED!!  Felt like being in labor again.  At least I got some good drugs while 
I was there though (dilaudid).  Otherwise they could have just killed me.  I 
got to come home Tuesday.  I am still a little sore, but doing much better.  It 
is mostly rough at night now.  I go back next week to the surgeon.  I hope he 
takes the bandages off; they are starting to heal and it itches.  Then in 3 
weeks I go back to the GI doctor who did the tube thing.  He is also going to 
check my liver function to make sure it is back where it should be.  Leave it 
to me to be complicated. 
 
KF 

You old bastards!

Bob

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Rick.

J

Since Rick mentioned Kristi's surgery, she is doing fine and coming home today.

Bob

Well since Kristi had to have surgery on sunday instead of tuesday... the first 
truck load came from my last residence. We will have to get the stuff from the 
basement later on. Thanks to dad we got everything in the first day. 2 truck 
loads and a trailer and a half, pulled back muscles and a near case of heat 
stoke and we were finished around 10 p.m.. We haven't heard anything else since 
sunday afternoon about Kristi so give me a call Bob you do have my friggin 
phone number.

RAF

Can the 1st truck load come from our basement?

Bob

What about Bob's strong back?  Well anyway..all is well with Tiff and I.  She 
slept last night too..yippie!  All I have to do is get my gallbladder out and I  
will be all set.  I had another attack yesterday..sucked.  Luckily my mom was 
able to come help with the kids..I sure can't do shit when those attacks hit.  
I have an appointment with a gastroenterologist (big word) next Tuesday.  
Hopefully we can get rolling on getting the thing out. 
 
KF 

Bob and John... I may need John but I will definitely need Bob.   I'm moving 
again. Phyllis and I are renting a place in Emerson and we need Bob and his 
truck and John's strong back. I'll call with more info later.

RAF

Both are doing great. If you guys are not busy saturday evening/night that would
be a good time. 

Tiffany actually slept for about 6 hours last night. It was nice.

Bob

How's Mama and Tiffany?  We need to come see her again...

K~

But, it will again.

Bob

not any more

J

It's raining!

figures...

TMI

J

kinky

bob

I enjoy a good beating from time to time.


RAF

Men...ya can't teach em anything...not even by beating...

Run...Run Away...quickly!

K~

Tiffany seems capable of being in the living room while I am playing the lotus
in the there without any issue. I'm sure she will live through some low level
noise coming from the basement. The TV is louder than we will be. Not that we
are playing this weekend anyway since it's easter. I work the weekend after that
on sunday so unless we play on saturday that one is shot as well.

Bob

Hey I agreed to turn down to 8. HEHEHE


RAF

Give it up Karen.  Resistance is futile...the basement will be assimilated.   
Anyway, I can always do what I usually do and run away.  I have given up trying 
to reason about it. 
 
KF 

Does the knob stop the vibrations too?

K~

Gotta start em early... besides there was one pic when she was born looked like 
she was playing air guitar. Gonna be a lefty player though.


Laters,
RAF

There is this wonderful invention. They call it a volume knob.

Bob

uh...you guys can't blast the basement playing with a newborn upstairs...what
are you on Crack?!

K~

LOL

I didn't spell check the site. feel free to do it sometime and let me know of
any mistakes.

Bob

OK BIG difference between typing and writing. (spellcheck)


RAF

... Given that I wrote every last scrap of text on this site except the bio's
for you and John, that should be apparent.

Bob

OMG.... Bob can write?!?!?!?!?



RAF

Term papers suck. That's one thing from college I do not miss.

Bob

1 paper down, 1 to go.

J

Dad saw Tiffany last night. I always forget about Easter =/

Bob

And don't forget that Dad still hasn't seen Tiffany. Probably gonna do the 
Easter thing on Sat. because Bailey's gotta be home on Sunday to do easter with 
her great grand parents.

RAF

Hmmm Easter Sunday?????? Might have a few conflicts there Bob.


RAF

Is everything clear with you guys to jam this sunday?

Bob

OK then I didn't know.

RAF

2 days ago. I went back on Wednesday.

Bob

When do you go back to work Bob?


RAF

But, it's all about the insults!

What other purpose could there be?

Bob

Insults aside... I was refering to the lack of input on the page since the baby 
was born. 


RAF

Sometimes...he is retarded sometimes?  Hmm...nevermind.

KF

You're retarded sometimes Rick.

Anyway, I go back to work tommorrow, maybe I can catch up on some sleep there.

Bob

Soooo.... Kinda quiet in here...... AHAGHAGHAGAHGHAHAGHAHGHGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
That's better.


RAF

I was there too, and I admit it- she is adorable!  I might be biased though, 
you never know.  She already has my temper though-going to be a long life.  The 
dog thinks she is his own personal responsibility-it is pretty funny.  
Anyway-all is well.   
 
KF 

I was there and she is adorable.


RAF

Tiffany Lee Faulkner was born at 2:23am on 03/29/06. She was 7 pounds 13 ounces.
Mother and Daughter are both doing great and are now home. Pictures are posted
on the family picture site.

Bob

http://www.guildseofon.com/raidinghate.html


posting this link to get it once im at home.
neat info on PoHate anyway, may want to consider hitting the upper tiers of it.


J

Well ya gotta admit, A nice, warm, dark space to which there is no outside crap 
to mess with ya. I wouldn't want to leave either. 


RAF 

She's tired of waiting too. Unfortunately, Tiffany is apparantly not tired of
Kristi's Uterus yet.

Bob

What John said!!!!!!!


RAF

Its time! The due date is today!! Get that kid in this world Kristi!!!! Im tired
of waiting!! ;op


J

Grats Karen!


RAF

Fabled King Tormax.....Dead
Fabled Kallis Stormcaller....Dead
Fabled Statue of Rallos Zek....Dead
Fabled Idol of Rallos Zek....Guild Dead

Grats Karen on:

Fabled Swftblade of Zek
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO TRADE
Slot: PRIMARY SECONDARY
Skill: 1H Slashing Atk Delay: 18
DMG: 17 Dmg Bonus: 15 AC: 25
STR: +14 HP: +235 MANA: +235 ENDUR: +235
SV DISEASE: +15 SV COLD: +15 SV POISON: +15
Recommended level of 70. Required level of 63.
WT: 0.1 Size: MEDIUM
Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD BRD
Race: ALL
Slot 1, Type 8

LOL! Yeah I have the same list. The important people and those that just don't 
mean a damn thing to me list. But then again I know my brother and how long his 
memory is hehe. He will call Mom and Dad and then look at his phone and say " 
Who the hell else was I supposed to call?" " Oh well they will hear about it 
sooner or later." That is why I keep reminding him to call me when the day 
comes.


Laters,
RAF

Well Rick, I somehow figured that you might already be on the "to call" list 
when I go into the hospital, being family and all.  Not like it's a long list, 
or anything; you know how anti-social we are.  Not like we have a huge list 
made out of friends and relatives. 
 
KF 

OUCH! that sucks Kristi, Phyllis goes in on the 1st for her next checkup. Make 
sure your hubby calls me when she finally makes an appearance.


RAF

Well, had 39 week dr appt today (5 days til d-day).  Finally a little progress,
but not much.  Went from 1 cm to 1 1/2 cm dilated.  No big deal there.  He did a
really rough exam to try to help things along, but so far all it did was hurt
like a bitch.  Dr had us schedule another ultrasound for next week to check
things out.  If she isn't here by the 3rd, then we will talk induction I guess.
 We will hope that doesn't happen, cuz it sux.  Next appt is Wednesday morning.

Thank you Bob.

RAF

Bob, Call me when you get a chance.

RAF

check your delusional mind email john.

Bob

I'm still drawing a blank.

Bob

...so...mindless...that could be a trait...

K~

.... I'm drawing a blank...

Bob

...what are the good Faulkner traits!

Well the pissed off part is an inherited family trait. 


RAF

Yeah.  No progress this week.  Still at 1cm..no luck.  Dr says she will probably
be late since Caine was.  They will let me go as much as 2 weeks over before
inducing.  We will not talk about that.

KF

hmmmm...where does she get that from?

K~

Nope. She's pissed off and refuses to come out.

Bob

What?!?!?!   No baby update?  Is Tiffany getting closer to being here?

K~

Be afraid...be very afraid...

Bob??? Leave his house????? OMFG THE WORLD IS ENDING!!!!!


RAF

That's what I'm afraid of!!

Bob

Hey dont knock it, the kid might actually give Bob a reason to leave his house
more than once a year!! ;op


J

Bite your tounge! 


RAF

Watch. She'll be really social and we'll be wondering what happened.

Bob

Our child not be antisocial?  That is too much to ask.  What else could she be? 
 
KF 

In the belly! Though I kind of hope she quits being so antisocial and comes out
to  visit us soon.

Bob

INCOMMIN!!!!!!  NIECE ON THE HORIZON!


RAF

Awesome - keep it up!  Hopefully she'll be close to "on time" :-)

K~

Well, had 37 week check up today.  Everything looks good.  The baby finally 
turned!  She weighs in at 7 lbs 3 oz.  I gained 1 lb this week, so that is 3 
total.  So far so good!

KF

Cool, I'll try to be there on time. Working till 2:39 A.M. sucks. Usually don't 
get home till 4 in the morning. But what can ya do. See ya then.


RAF

Yeah that sounds good Rick. Plan for a long session next Sunday. Me and Bob just
practiced a little. The girls went shopping.


J

Sorry I couldn't make it today guys, had to fix the car. Can we try to do the 
11 am thing next week?


RAF

I have been informed that there will only be 2 pics, unless I can intimidate 
the doc into givin us another one..... hehe. The doc seemed to be very nice and 
was very gentle through the exam. He explained everything as he went, which was 
a relief for me and for Phyllis as well since she was the examinee. This is a 
new experience for me as well since I wasn't able to be there for Bailey's 9 
month excursion into existence. I'm excited to see what it will be...(BOY)...
but which ever it is will be cool....(BOY).... Either way a new addition to the 
family is a great thing in itself.


Laters,
RAF

Why they doing another pic?  I thought they only did like 2 the whole time.  I
feel jipped or something; either that or my dr sux.  Well, I mean, I get another
one next week, but an extra one early on would've been extra reassuring.  Here's
hoping your little peanut isn't as stubborn as ours seems to be and decides to
position his/her self the right way from the beginning, LOL.

KF

Phyllis had her first Doctor Appt. on the 2nd. The sonogram is on the family 
site under the Faulkner/Duncan header. She is doing well and the baby is to. We 
go back on the 1st of April and get another pic and will be sent to Bob to be 
posted also.

RAF

Well, a C-Section isn't so bad - you get great drugs!!  LOL!!  Not to mention
the other benefits...  Sounds like everything is going great - glad to hear it!!

K~

Well, had my dr appt today.  Not much news going on.  I gained my 2 lbs back 
that I lost last week, so I have gained 2 lbs so far total.  I have to go on 
Tuesday next week for another ultrasound to see if she is still breech.  They 
think she is, but she is still so high up they can't tell for sure.  If so, 
then it may be c-section city after all.  I went from 1/2 cm to 1 whole cm 
dilated; not much progress, but better than none I guess.  The dr did say he 
thinks this one will be a little smaller than Caine was born.  I sure hope so; 
he was 8 lbs 7 oz, any bigger I might die.

KF

Fantasy land is a great place to work and play!

Bob

It's okay...he can live in fantasy land for another month.  Maybe the surprise
is better that way!  hehehehe

K~

Told you!

It won't change that much.. Just more stinky diapers involved!

Bob

Don't tell Bob his life will change forever, you know he won't listen, LOL! 
 
KF 

Phyllis goes to the Doc on the second of March. As soon as we know how things 
are going I will let ya know.


RAF

Because once Tiffany is here...Bob's life will change forever!

K~

We did a small bit of recording yesterday. We are planning a long session next
weekend to try and bang out another full song.

Bob

chirp...chirp..chirp 

Well, had my dr appt today.  Got my group B strep test...that was loads of fun.   
Lost the 2 lbs I gained, so now I am back at prepregnancy weight again. Dr 
thinks she is head down now, but he wasn't positive because she was still 
really high up.  I am 1/2 cm dilated and 50% effaced.  I know that doesn't 
really mean anything, but at least it is some form of progress.  I didn't 
dilate or efface w/Caine at all until I was in the hospital in labor, so I am 
excited about it.   
 
KF 

Cool beans Karen, glad to hear everyone had a good time.


RAF

We went to Austin, TX.  I had meetings there.  My boss flew John and Dreah out
with me - which rocks!!!!  We had a really good time!  John and Dreah hung out
while I was in meetings.  The Marriott staff TOTALLY spoiled Dreah - they loved
her!  We did some sightseeing on Saturday.  Went down to their "6th Street" whis
is our Buckhead.  Got some great suveniors!  The weather was great til Saturday,
when it turned freezing, but we hung in there.  

And for the record, John is an AWESOME Dad!!!!

K~

Hell that ain't good at all.

RAF

Your memory is almost as good as mine.

Bob

No one told me he was going to be out of town. I was just told we weren't 
jamming.


RAF

... that's why we didn't jam yesterday.. john was out of town...

bob

I didn't even know you were gone. Hope ya had a good time wherever ya went.


RAF

The Horror!

Bob

We're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

K&J

Dammit!!

Nope.

Bob

Bob,
Has Mom sent you the pic of the pregnancy test for Phyllis?

RAF

More stuff and things.

Bob

Happy Cupid's Day!

K~

Yeah Happy VD to you too


RAF

Happy Valentine's Day!

Bob

Update..... We may have miscalculated Phyllis' due month. She may actually be 
around 2 months pregnant. Ya know how mother nature works, allways keeping us 
in the dark. Gonna take her to the doctor and find out a more accurate time 
line. We will let you know what is going on.


RAF

Luck of the Irish! Green eyes and red hair.


RAF

That'll be special.  You'll have a Halloween baby, and ours will end up either 
St Patricks day or April Fools day. 
 
KF 

Yes we have discussed the possibility of a Hallows Eve child.


RAF

Halloween baby!!

Bob

Oh and BTW.... Some news for the masses. Phyllis is pregnant also. We have 
calculated she is 4 weeks along and the baby should be born in October.


RAF

Woohoo - Tiffany is on her way!! Glad all is still going great!

K~

All went well at the doctor's office yesterday btw. still on schedule and on target!

Bob

Figures..I call and email everyone yesterday, and all the invites come today.  
Whatever!  We are registered at Babies R Us, btw.  Not that it matters, but it 
can at least give some ideas.

kf

Oh...and I'll be there, but might be late.  We don't get out of class til 1:45
then have to pick up Dreah, bring her and John home...then head out again.  

K~

Cancel that...got invite today!

K~

I'm pretty sure that would be a bad idea.

I don't know what you're gonna do Rick, but I'm gonna be playing video games. I
won't have any kids this weekend =)

I have to abuse that ability while I still can because I won't be able to
anymore in another month or 2.

Bob

Go ahead and post the directions...

K~

If you will..... A soon to be mother's nightmare unfolds. She makes 
preparations for a baby shower yet no one knows..... she has stepped into the 
Twighlight Zone. She used snail mail to send her invitations and for some 
unknown reason no one has recieved them. LOL.

I'm sure everyone is gonna get em.... maybe after the shower tho. Bob....What 
are we gonna do all day with a buncha kids?

RAF 

Okay, well no one seems to have gotten their baby shower invites for some 
reason, so I wanted to post the date/time for y'all.  The invites went out 
last week, so they should be coming, but who knows what happened.  Anyway, the 
shower is this Saturday the 11th at 3pm at my bosse's house in Bridge Mill.  I 
can give you directions if you need them (they are in the invites too if they 
ever come).

KF

Fear the cleric powers.

Bob

only because you can heal yourself...:-P

K~

And yet I would still win in a duel.

Bob

I have more HP than you!

K~

I have more mana than you!


Bob

Everquest rocks

-- Galanity

I added 2 sonogram pics from October in Tiffany's section of the family picture
site.

Bob

I wonder the same thing sometimes.

Bob

Why is no one posting anymore?

John,
The Virtual Vintage I have in my six string is a Virtual Vintage Solo DP404. I 
researched it on the DiMarzio website and there is a sound byte also.

Laters,
Rick

Bob says no. 
 
KF 

Yeah Bob had broken glass and he was wearing a seatbelt. I wound up in the 
passenger seat and the truck was in reverse backing me out into traffic. It was 
an interesting ride to say the least. And Bob has Mom sent you our wedding pics 
to post yet?
  
RAF

Well, had another doctor appt this week.sGained another pound.  I am still down 
one from before I started though.  I go back on the 8th and the 23rd, then 
after that it is every week visits. 
 
After carefully comparing dead Dodges, I still think that Bob did a better job 
overall.  Yours is still special and everything Rick, but Bob's had more flair 
to it I think.   
KF  

The pictures of Rick's Deceased Dodge are up on the family pictures site.

Bob

I like the new webmail. Has more features and is less buggy. I use it everday.


RAF

I work and I work and nobody notices =(

Bob

I changed the webmail server software from Roundcube to Open WebMail. Try it out
and let me know if you see any bugs. This software has a lot more features and
is a little less buggy.

Bob

The North Georgia trees have claimed another Dodge Truck today. Photos to be 
posted soon.


RAF

Beer Goggles?

Bob

Maybe your monitor is having issues. After a few hours it decides focus is no
longer important.


RAF

It looks crystal clear to me.

Bob

Why does this thing go blurry Bob...is that Voodoo DNS???

K...I have to get off this ride now...i'm getting dizzy...

K~

Kinda hard to tell them if I can't e mail them.

RAF

AOL sucks. They don't interoperate with half the planet.
Tell whoever it was you were sending it to that if they want to get all their
email get a different provider.


Bob

Hey Bob, I tried to send an e mail to someone with an aol acct. and it was 
returned. Is there a problem sending email from webmail to aol? Or is it just 
the crappy security that aol uses?

RAF

Drink lots of cranberry juice I heard that was excellent for kidney and bladder 
infections. That and water. Let us know how everything is going.


RAF

Well, leave it to me to have more issues!  My back woke me up killing me this 
morning, so after almost all day calling the dr back and forth I finally got 
worked in.  They kept telling me to take Tylenol and put heat on it; I knew 
that wasn't gonna help, but I did it anyway.  Finally, after 3 or 4 calls to 
the dr they agreed to see me.  Turns out, I have a really bad kidney infection.  
They gave me some antibiotics, and said if I don't feel better in 2 days to 
call them back.  In the meantime, all they tell me I can take is Tylenol, so I 
guess I get to suffer.  Oh well, at least now I know what the problem is.  
Needless to say, work didn't happen today, and probably not tomorrow unless I 
feel a ton better in the morning.  Could be worse though I suppose. 
 
KF 

I haven't heard anything about a harness.... Tell my non calling brother to 
fill me in sometime. I did hear about the glucose thing and I'm glad everything 
is normal Kristi. Keep the young-un bakin and hope the rest goes good.

RAF

Awesome Kristi!  That's a load off your mind!  The harness may be too small for
ya if it cuts ya in half.  I wouldn't wear it if that's the case.  

Mmmmmmm....chocolate (sugar) - enjoy it while ya can.  Losing the weight SUX!!

Uh...I don't know how the thing posted twice...I'm sure it's DNS and not me!!
Which is probably the same reason it's all blurry now...i'm getting dizzy...

K~

Sugar good.

Bob

Well, as you can tell, I haven't been on the board lately.  The harness helps a
little.  I must be doing something wrong though, because when I sit down it like
cuts me in half.  My back is a lot better now though.  I guess whatever it is is
working it's way out.

On another note:  I passed my 3 hour glucose test!!! YAY!!!  I have the mother
of all bruises on my right arm, but I guess that is a small price to pay- that
means I can still eat sugar!!  WOOHOO!!

KF

No holiday for the wicked!!!! We jam

You fell victom to hitting refresh again didn't you.. Stop that!!

I'm gonna have to break down and write a subroutine to check for duplicate posts
I guess.

Bob

Technically...it's Sunday...

Technically...it's Sunday...

That's Monday.. 

Bob

because of the holiday...

Why would it be?

Bob

I thought this weekend was cancelled...

mmmmmm.. crunch and destroy...

yummy.

Bob

K guys I like the addition you made to the track. I think we can get a little 
more crunch and destroy in there also. See ya this weekend.

RAF

Hey Kristi - how's the back?  Are ya wearing the harness?

K~

We worked a little on a new song this past weekend. Once we come up with a
little more for it we'll have another finished song written and in the queue to
be recorded. Slowly making progress toward finishing out the album. 

Bob

Somewhere....



J

Where?

Bob

Gooooooooood Morning!

K~

Yeah Happy New Year......dammit

BTW, Happy New Year!

Bob

Sounds about right.

Bob

So...you're having delusional thoughts about porn???

K~

You forgot Delusional Mail.

I thought about the Delusional Porn thing as well, but it sounds a bit too far
over the top.

Bob

I don't know.  You've got Delusional Mind and Delusional Radio already.  I think
"Delusional Porn" sounds more official.  Of course, that sounds like a type of
strange fetish, but whatever works I guess.

KF

Exploration of a Dirty Mind

Bob

What porn service?

That's what the name of our new porn service is going to be.

Bob

Did someone say Dirty Mind?

Nope.


J

I guess not.

Bob

Was there ever any doubt?

Bob

You people should be ashamed...thinking of Santa in that way!!!


Of course, it also means you passed the test...yup, ya'll officially have DIRTY
MINDS 24/7!!  hahahahahaha

K~

The same thought occured to me as well.

Bob

...dirty thoughts..dirty thoughts...shouldn't post things like that...

Santa Came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAH HUMBUG!!!!!!

HO HO HO and stuff and things!

MERRY X-MAS!!!


J

Actually, it IS because of DNS.. I added an entry in my DNS server for
family.treborlogic.com but that information probably hasn't been transferred to
John's server yet. My guess is when your machine asked for the address it asked
John's server and it said, "Huh?"

I'll log into it and force an update.

Bob

Because of DNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahahahaha

SO HOW COME WHEN I GO TO FAMILY.TREBORLOGIC.COM I GET A DEAD LINK?

I moved the pictures that aren't related to the band out of the image gallery to
their own space. The images in the Delusional Mind gallery are now limited to
band related images only. All the others are available at family.treborlogic.com

Rick, I still need your wedding pics and anything else you want on the family album.

LIES!!!!



J

I heard you go blind if you do stuff and things.

Bob

Did some stuff and things this morning. Nothing else to report.


J

and then immediately fell silent for days.

Bob

yes, we jammed about 2 hours ago.

Bob

hahahaha :-)

Bob, 
Call me and let me know if we are jamming tomorrow.

RAF

i'm no traitor. It was obtained while John was still working there. Once
Earthlink outsourced his job as well I dropped them like a bad habit.

Bob

TRAITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, its cause its from Earthlink.


J

I agree.

Bob

DAMN THE BAD LUCK!

It also locked up again yesterday. Apparantly it's getting ready to die on me..
Time to start looking for a new one.

Bob

Shew!!  I feel better now that I know - thanks for more DNS!!!

K~

Just in case anyone was wondering why the site was down all day Friday, my DSL
modem locked up right after I walked out the door to go to work. First time that
modem has even given me any trouble. As soon as I got home and reset it all was
well again.

Bob

FTW

John has suggested setting a date by which we should have the album completed. I
think it's a good idea. Applying some pressure to ourselves might help motivate
us to not spend an entire jam session playing when we should be focused on
writing and recording.

I want the album finished above all else. And by finished I mean a full
complement of songs of at least moderate technical difficulty(not the same riff
over and over ie chunk and epic). That way if/when we do play someplace, even if
it's only 2 songs we play, afterward we have something impressive to give to the
people there who want more.

Bob

OK for the record, I don't wear panties. I was upset at the way it was 
presented to me and yes you have been at some of the rehersals. But the ones 
you aren't at are some of the best. Bob I agree that we do not rehearse enough 
to be at a professional status. Frankly we don't have the enthusiasm or time 
to rehearse that much. As for playing live I did not mean that we were going 
to jump up and play an entire set... only a couple songs and get the hell out. 
As far as being nice? When the hell have I ever been nice? And yes the music 
we are doing now has been done to death and we have played it so many times 
that it has become boring and redundant to the point of mistakes because I 
have quit paying attention to what I am doing. We need to finish recording the 
songs we have YES... And it needs to be done soon. I have been working on some 
new arrangements that make "There and Back again" seem boring. I haven't 
played any of it because there are several movements to be considered. But 
until we get something going I am not going to bring in this drummer because 
he is that good. And I don't want to be considered by friends that actually 
play live and perform with at times to consider us ridiculous and 
unprofessional.


RAF

no more show for you!

Bob

Woohoo - We love family fueds!!!  Damn right we're entertained!  Much better
than Bob's DNS!  hahahahaha

Now...Commence to the next round, please. :-)

J&K

What he said. As far as hearing you jam..well I've been there done that many
times.  That, and I have seen the video (over and over and over thanks to Bob).
I'm not saying you should never play live, and I'm not trying to be mean.  I'm
just looking at it from a marketing perspective.  Establishing a fan-base is
important (obviously), and word of mouth is instrumental in that.  You don't
want to jump into something too soon. Then you end up with a bunch of people 
leaving the show and telling their friends that you suck or something.  That
isn't the case, but one bad night (especially when it's your first) can ruin a
reputation really fast.   This next part is not nice, but I have to say it.  I
can't help myself.  Besides, if we were only allowed to say nice things all the
time on this wall, then it would be considerably shorter than it is now.  Okay,
here goes:  if the stuff you are playing now is boring, old, and redundant, then
following logic,  shouldn't that equate to less mistakes instead of more?  Just
curious(that is my sarcastic nature coming out again-sorry).  Anyway, that is my
retort for the moment. Didn't mean to make you get your panties in a wad or
anything dude.  If nothing else, at least we are putting the wall to use;no
annoying crickets chirping.  That, and we must be providing great reading
entertainment for John and Karen ;)

KF

Zing!!  Right over his head...

I'll be honest and say right now my priority is to get the album finished..
playing live for an audience when we have no real album to point to and say "get
more here" is not very useful. I'm not against playing a venue now and then but
before we get on a stage we need something to play for them. In my opinion we
have 4 completed songs(Insanity's, Nameless, Aphro, and There and Back).
Everything else we play is at best an interesting riff that should be a part of
a better song. 

Rick, there are very few times we play a song all the way through without one of
us screwing something up. That's to be expected when we only jam 2-3 times a
month (if we're lucky).. The best example of this is the video we attempted to
make the other weekend.. The camera is on and all 3 of us managed to screw
up(royally) at least 1 thing in the song. Today we jammed and it was an awesome
session. We pretty much nailed everything. BUT, we need to be able to do that
EVERY time and right now we don't. If we can increase the frequency of jam
sessions, or at least all of us show up for the ones we schedule now, then we
can start talking about getting on stage. 

Kristi can say anything she wants on here, the same as you.(also keeping in mind
she owns the server and the bandwidth this is piping through).. everything she
said was true. i have no intention of setting foot on a stage in front of
anything more than people I already know unless we can get together and belt out
a set of COMPLETE songs without messing up bad enough for anyone to know the
difference. If that's the goal you're aiming for then our next several jam
sessions need to be dedicated to finishing recording what we have and writing at
least 4-5 more complete songs to fill out the album. Once the music page says
"Here's the complete album of Insanity's Realm" we can set our sights on a stage.

Bob

First off Kristi, you aren't there to hear us play and we don't f*ck up 
everything we play. And it's not like it's gonna be tomorrow that we play a 
live gig. First we have to get the drummer in line. And as far as it goes I 
have played live in front of an audience and so has John. The only one that 
hasn't is Bob. If you have nothing positive to say then don't say it, we have 
been practicing the same stuff for a very long time and to me it is getting 
boring. When we get an opportunity like this we need to take it. Mistakes 
happen in the basement because we have played it over and over so many times it 
has become redundant and therefore old. This is not meant to be mean or nasty, 
but until you can play guitar or bass or add something to the music let us be 
the judge of what we do or when we play live.

Rick

That was my wife.. Thank you.

Bob

BURN!

Ummm..hey Rick..here's a thought.  Before you go somewhere playing live in front
of people, don't you think you should learn how to play in the basement without
f***ing up on something every song.  By that I mean all of y'all, not
necessarily you in particular.  Not saying y'all suck or nothing..just saying
that playing live might be a little ways away.  Don't want to make total fools
of yourselves the first time out (at least not any more than you have to).

KF

What's up aaron! things are going great with us.. you need to log back into eq
sometime and say hi..

Bob

Hey Aaron!!! Good to hear from ya. We miss ya in EQ land! Hope things are going
good for you and the family!!!


John

Yes John the guy is allready in a band and also happens to be a percussion 
teacher at a local music store that we visit from time to time. He is a kickass 
drummer and has agreed to give our stuff a try. And if he likes it and can play 
it will come and jam with us and record for us. Hell we may even have a small 
venue to play at live with his band. Although the place is not a metal club we 
can get Bob over the limitation of stage fright there.HEHEHEHE.

Laters,
Rick

Howdy folks,

Just dropped by to say hello.  I haven't talked to you guys in a good long time 
hope things are going well.. it looks like they are.

Aaron (Fob)

it has been found and squashed. thanks for playing.

bob

I'm hunting an obscure, nonfatal bug in the Wall..

Bob

Must be a hard question.

bob

Is this guy already in a band? 


J

Actually I believe this guy can play the parts we wrote on the tracks on the 
web page. He is that good.

RAF

keep in mind there are copies of aphrodisiac, nameless, and insanity's realm
that have no drums in them at www.delusionalmind.com/tracks

Bob

Well lets hope that it turns out to be something positive!!

J

I'm taking a copy of the unfinished works to a friend of mine that just happens 
to play drums. I'm going to issue a challenge to him and see if he takes it.

RAF

I feel sorry for Bob.



Bob

Well, let's all feel sorry for Bob again since he has to work today too.  

You better.

bob

I'll save ya some dressing Bob.

RAF

that's right.. you should.. I'm so bored it hurts.

Bob

Everyone feel sorry for Bob..all together now...awwwww!

somehow i got elected to work on thanksgiving, so eat some for me. i won't be
getting off till 8pm, which is too late to really partake in the feasting.

Only redeeming factor is holiday pay!!

Bob

Happy Thanksgiving all!!

John,Karen, and Dreah

Giving Happythanks everyone!!

Bob

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!!!
from:
Rick and Family

burned turkey doesn't taste good.

Also, to update, we recorded a video this past sunday, though we didn't mix it
well and we all managed to find a way to screw up something in the song. Call it
a practice run. We'll do a better version next time and use a real video camera
as opposed to our digital camera recording to it's 512MB SD.
 

Bob

BURN!!!!


J

If the beak fits...hahahaha

Gobble...Gobble...  

K~

who are you calling a turkey?!?!

Bob

It's Turkey Week!  So Happy Turkey Day to all you Turkeys!

K~

at least it seems that way.

Bob

into a void from which there is no return. and it just keeps getting sucked in
faster and faster..

Bob

Dreah will be a year old in 2 weeks!!!  Wow...where has the time gone?!

K~

the server is starting to sound like crickets again..

Bob

btw, as of a few posts ago we broke 1000 posts on the wall.

Bob

update: we didn't get a chance to jam this past weekend so the video is on hold
until we do.

Don't have a clue.  Not really feeling pizza though.  Of course, Caine is kinda
picky, so it has to be something that has something he will eat.  Either that,
or if we decide ahead of time I can bring him something to fix.  Whatever; there
isn't much to choose from if we want to order in.  Whatever it is will give me
heartburn, so it doesn't much matter to me.

KF

Blah...blah...blah...More DNS!!!!!!!!!

Pizza...maybe...Kristi - any ideas?

K~

we are now hosting a copy of "there and back again" in the music section that is
in flac format. For those that don't know, flac is a lossless audio codec that
produces a perfect copy of the original. no loss at all. That means the audio
you listen to is perfectly identical to the source we created it from. Ogg and
mp3 formats are lossy and even if you can't tell, there is fidelity lost when
they are created that is preserved in the flac file. It is quite large since
it's lossless. The flac file is roughly 60% of the source file's size. If you
desperately want a perfect copy or are going to burn it to cd and want a cd
quality source then the flac file is what you're after. If you just want
something to listen to that is close to cd quality then the ogg and mp3 files
are what you want (and are MUCH smaller).

Once the album is completed, we will offer it on the web site for free in ogg
and mp3 formats. If you decide you like it and would like to purchase the album
(and help fund the next one) we will provide the entire album in flac format, or
burn a cd and ship it to you (your choice). 

Bob

dunno.. we can order pizza, or wings. or whatever..

Bob

The rematch is on for Saturday - woohoo!  hahahha

What do you guys want for din-din?

K~

Just so others know, we're trying to get a rough video together of us playing
"There and Back Again". This isn't a glamour music video or anything. Just a
video of us, playing the song in the basement, mainly for kicks. We're going to
record it live through the mixer and once the whole thing is put together we'll
make it available from the site.

Bob

Don't everyone post at once. Don't think the server can handle it.

Bob

I was trying to hook him up with the super secret map to broodlands. but it
looks like the site had a hard drive failure between when i mailed it to him and
he checked it and they lost all their maps.. it's conspiracy i tell you!

Bob

Webmail...looks like the guys have their secrets now too...hehehe

K~

john, check your webmail.

Bob

lol

professional suicide is always fun to watch.

Bob

Every man's dream...TAMPA � Two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders were arrested
after a bar dispute that broke out early Sunday after patrons complained the
women were having sex in a bathroom stall, a police arrest report said.

damn...heheheh had to share - it was in the AJC today.

K~

What sucks?

It sucks!

Well, if they wouldn't decide to raid Time on Saturday night we could do some
card playing.  Damn them.  Oh well, I suppose there will be another Saturday.

Yeah, you better believe I will be coming for some girly baby stuff at some
point.  I didn't keep much of Caine's, and what I did keep just isn't gonna work
out for Tiffany..hehe.  

KF

Call me when you get a chance Bob


J

Ok, I changed around the look of the wall by moving the post box to it's own
screen. That way if all you came here for was to read the wall you won't have to
deal with the big white box in your face. 

Tell me what you think. If it sucks I'll set it back to the way it was.

Bob

I actually haven't listened to any of it yet. Can't crank it up here at work.
I was just getting a kick out of Steve Harris's daughter having a guitarist
named Faulkner, who's first name isn't far off from Rick's


Bob

She sounds like Pat Benetar...cool.

K~

I just found this:

http://www.monstroentertainment.com/lauren.php

it's Steve Harris's daughter!! 
Want to know what's really wierd? Her guitarist is Richie Faulkner!!

Bob

EQ friday night right?

Bob

LOL!!!  If you remember, it was guys versus girls last time.  But either way is
cool.
K~

you miss kicking our asses that much?

Bob

All ya need to do is come over and you'll have everything you'll need for little
Tiffany!!  Between what was given to us and what I bought for Dreah, you won't
have to buy anything for the first year of her life unless you just want to!!

Plus, it's about time for a rematch of Spades! :-)

K~

Well, we are all registered now at Babies R Us.  Wow, that took a long time to
do, but it was kinda fun.  
KF

FYI it was because the copy of firefox on your machine was version .9 something
and the webmail app requires firefox 1.0+. you're up-to-snuff now.

Bob

fixed

Bob

nothing! what browser are you using and from where? i just logged into it just
fine 20 seconds ago.

Bob

WTF???  My browser doesn't support webmail?  It did the other day.  What have
you done now Bob?

KF

hahahahaha - yeah, you suck!  I like that one better!

K~

ok, after a double-take i see what you mean. fixed.

Bob

What would you like for it to say? You suck?

Bob

Ok one thing I noticed on webmail. When you end the session it says... you have 
succesfully finished your session, goody bye. Ya think you could fix that.

RAF