This’ll be my last entry of the year. Jen and I will be leaving today for the Bay Area, and we’re not going to be back until Friday, January 2nd. I’m not going to post some cheesey year-end recap. If you want to know what my life’s been like in 2008, check the archives. One last bit of 2008 that I need to cover is Christmas. We went to my sister’s house and had a nice dinner. We also received some really great gifts. A few photos are available here.

Jen and I don’t own laptops/iPhones/Crackberries, so we won’t be doing much Internetting during our trip. I did just set up a Twitpic account, and if I can get it to work, I’ll be sending some pictures from my phone during the trip. Considering that I’ve never managed to get any of these cool web 2.0 mobile services to work with my phone, I doubt it’ll work. Regardless, there’ll be plenty of photos and probably some video when we return.

So, Happy New Year, Internetz. Stay safe and don’t die.

UPDATE: The Twitpic account works! I’ll definitely send some photos during the trip, so stay tuned to Twitpic or my Twitter account to see those photos as they come in.

Inside My Head show number seventy four

In today’s show, you get to hear the final chapter of the continuing saga “Jen’s Quest for a New Job”. It has a happy ending!

This show also contains a big fat rant about all the things I shall not miss about working for Barnes & Noble Bookstores. Enjoy! It’s the last rant about the book store.

Do you play World of Warcraft too? Go check out All Things Azeroth. It’s YOUR World of Warcraft Podcast! I featured a promo for this show in my show today.

Music in this show by:
*Fucking Beautiful , with a song called “Freespace”

*Hello Operator , with a song called “So Free”
Here is the video for that song:

*Dragon Ritual Drummers , with a song called “Zombi”

*Artist vs. Poet , with a song called “Runaway”.

No more book store! I’ve run away!
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Little panda can’t escape his enclosure. Aww!

This is Panda Dog.

“Fat man’s comin’ ” ?

I’m not a big one for New Year’s resolutions. So, instead of making impossible plans to magically morph into a brand new person come January 1st, I’ve decided to make a list of to-do’s for the upcoming year. I’m posting the list here as an easy reference point for myself. I will mark things off as they are completed, and I will also be adding things to the list as they may come up.. I encourage Shawnogram fans to stop by this list every now and then, and leave words of encouragement to help me stay motivated. And by “words of encouragement,” I mean things like, “Hey, it’s July and you haven’t done ONE thing on this list. Lazy bastard.” And now, the list:

Home improvement/Repair:

• Have skirting panels replaced/repaired
• Install track light in kitchen
• Set up the empty planter so something can be planted in it
• Paint the air conditioner support structure

Internet:

• Get website online for my sister’s new business
• Update all entries on Book Sandwich to include book cover images and Amazon links
• Add new banner images to Shawnogram>
• Create logo for Central California Bloggers group
• Import all entries from old blogs into Shawnogram
• Update the Hyper Nonsense website
• Update all WordPresses to latest version (podcast site updates will hinge upon the new podPress release)
• Set up Haiku of Frustration Twitter account
• Create new Phantom Power Media site

Personal/Creative/Other:

• FINISH GUITAR REPAIRS
• Refine guitar tones/patches using PODxt LIve and “new” amplifier
• Finish recording The Sidebars album
• Record stuff for other peoples’ podcasts
• Get switched over to new work schedule
• Pursue internship at local recording studio

This list is meant strictly for things that should only need to be done once. I may come up with another list of regular reminders for things that have to be done repeatedly over time.

A little advice about what not to buy at Barnes & Noble