It was early christmas for me today. The DSL folks arrived, and the Fedex guy kept coming back with more and more packages for me. Now my room is covered in cardboard boxes again, I have high-speed connectivity (I can't really express how much better this is). I have a new pager that can transmit...uh.. something. It has no keyboard, so I guess I enter messages using the three overloaded multifunction buttons provided. (reading the manual: I can send one of several preprogrammed replies. I hope "fuck off" is in there.) I also have an IBM thinkpad 600. Very black, monolithic, and small. I like using it already - the screen is big and bright and sharp and it's pretty damn fast.

Today's creative musical output: Lilith, an MP3. Watching Brandon's compositions, I asked how he put the realtime guitars into Acid. He said he recorded them as the acid program played, relying on the hardware mixing to keep the signals seperate. This is the first song I've composed that way.

Okay okay, for Brighteyes and all you folks with no bandwidth, here is a close approximation in RealAudio I really think this song is pretty neat, ya know.