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My brother from the same mother, Pilot (or Lord Kickbutt as we sometimes call him), and I have started back up doing the blog thing for a few months now. We figured it's a good way for us to keep in touch now that we live three hours away from each other. Since we've started I think I've done more than one post explaining this and starting the post more or less exactly like above. Thing is, I don't live that exciting of a life and certain things that we would chat about just don't transfer well to text, or even come up at all. This week is one of those cases. Aside from being incredibly busy at work, I've mostly just been sitting around at home playing a survival game set in the cold north of Canada. The real world weather outside makes the winter conditions of the game actually look warm. The idea of getting back to writing came from the Vlogbrothers but we both agreed that editing a video each week would just lead to us getting frustrated and quitting. You can...

Work has been stressful lately. The project has been made into a mess and we have a new VP that has been tasked with cleaning up the mess. I think he's got a good start but there is a long way to go. One of the things that frustrates me about it is that a lot of the fixes we are trying to implement are things I tried to implement over two years ago and was told to stop. That is frustrating. And I'm still struggling to get any of it in as now we are too far down for most of it to matter. We just gotta put our heads down and work hard. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop looking for solutions though. There is always the next project. Plus, there have been a lot of improvements in technology in the last two years. One example is drawingless construction. There was a bridge built in Europe with zero 2D drawings created. They did the whole thing from a 3D model. That's bonkers to me. Most experts say that is find for a lot of simpler things like a bridge but when you hav...

I've run into a bit of a slump with listening to new music lately. Just been recycling the old albums over and over again. This should change coming up here though as there are a bunch of albums coming out soon. They were all announced thirty-two years ago. In the meantime I relistened to some Periphery, a Prog Metal Djent band. Or as I like to call it, awesome. Periphery is probably a little much for most people as they can melt your face off, but like most bands like this, they have a soft side. Also a silly side, as can be seen in the names of their last two albums: Periphery 4: Hail Stan! & Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre. I've previously listened to them, just enjoying it as a whole and noticing guitar stuff as I am a guitar player (Also their vocalist, who rules). This time I've really picked up some other stuff. Their vocalist comes from a punk influence and has that very stereotypical punk/emo singing style, but has the pipes to add lots of gravel to it when h...

Friday, eh? Time for another blog post, I guess. You'd like that, wouldn't you? For ol' Navigator to type out a post for your eyeballs to read. Maybe I will, maybe I won't. I'll never tell. Maybe instead I'll build a 13-carat Brazilian Space Tug with solid Jello grills. That would show you. I've got to make something though. I've got the "use my hands" itch. No, not that one. Get your mind out of the gutter! Or don't. I'm not your boss. I've been playing lots of building games lately and I always want to transfer that to real life. Unfortunately, it's never as easy as it is in the games. Pilot recently talked about reno's and such in a house. I do have to finish installing the trim from when we converted a closet to an office when we first moved in to our place three years ago. Probably about an hour of work, if that. I suck at the detail stuff though. I like stuff that doesn't look good cause then my details aren't ...

I may be a huge music lover, but I've never tried to hide the fact that lyrics aren't my thing. Not only am I terrible at writing them, I usually can't understand what a singer is saying. I don't mean just the usual ones. I probably misunderstand more lyrics than I get right. Nothing like not knowing what someone is saying a realizing years later that they are just singing the title of the song. I don't feel like it's a bad thing that I don't worry about lyrics too much. I've known MANY people in my life that judge if a song is good or not solely on what the singer is singing about. I'm prefer the Tool theory of singing in that it's just another instrument like the rest, even if Maynard does write some of the best lyrics out there. If it sounds good, I don't care about the lyrics (As long as they aren't racist or something like that). My favorite are "Are you mowing the scarred burrowed hair? Pasty rage, gross berry and lime." L...

I'm getting a full body and brain transplant from a fellow named Porcupine McSandwich. Nah, I'm just kidding. I can't afford that. Been catching up on music this last week. Without listening to music at work my listening slows down. I finally got rid of the Christmas music suggestions yesterday. Over the Christmas holidays I started watching some YouTube videos on pedals, which is majorly fucking dangerous for my wallet. The ones I got into were from JHS pedals. Sounds like good pedals but I also liked how he would explain why certain old circuits aren't just better (Similar to the digital vs. vinyl debate. Not better, just different) and he'd also show how to use the pedals. And not just his own. He's a pedal lover and creates these ones cause he loves other pedals as much as I love my tuner, which I will likely be buried with, but that's another topic. I've said for years I'd love to make one, something like a distortion is super easy by all accoun...

The readers of this blog will already know that my grandmother passed away yesterday at the ripe old age of 99. She was an amazing woman who never backed down from a challenge and lived her life showering others with love. I still have the two grandparents on my mothers side that are alive which I fully realize makes me an incredibly lucky person to have been able to know my grandparents for so long. It has got me doing some thinking though. I don’t know if it will head anywhere but I watch a lot of history YouTube videos. They are generally war videos. as that seems to be the main form of communication for humans, but there are others too. As a white male in his thirties, I am endlessly interested in the two world wars though. I also have a grandfather that repaired planes in the second one and a great grandfather that I am told fought in the trenches of the first. But, I don’t know anything about either of these. I think my dad and some uncles could fill in some details about my gran...