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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Went to an award ceremony honoring all the students in our school district who scored distinguished on state testing in @ least one of three subjects Math, Reading & Science. My son James, he's

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Huh, looks like its snowing again this morning. This means that we've already had more snow storms in the valley in spring than we did all winter. Not that I'm complaining about more snow, bit seriously, WTF?

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Well don't worry we've had about as much heat in the last fortnight as we did all summer. Weird weather indeed.

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Just had a seriously cool metal evening with my kids. My oldest is taking piano lessons, and we did her homework from her last lesson tonight. They were distracted by my Ziltoid: The Omniscient sock puppet, so I put on the album and played with them with the puppet for a bit and they were giggling like crazy. We got back to the homework, and she breezed through it while the youngest strummed on her guitar. After it was done and she played around on the keys for a bit, she picked up her guitar and was playing and singing with her sister. She insisted that I play the piano while they were playing, and I started messing around and stumbled upon the intro from My Dying Bride's Your River. They thought it sounded cool and stopped playing after a while to join me on the keyboard. I asked them if they wanted to hear where it came from, and they said yes. As soon as I hit play on the song, my oldest started dancing to the music. It fit too, this really pretty flowing pattern that she evolved as the song changed, while the youngest just listened intently. They both loved it, and the oldest said that she could feel the music and loved dancing. It was an amazing experience.

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Just had a seriously cool metal evening with my kids. My oldest is taking piano lessons, and we did her homework from her last lesson tonight. They were distracted by my Ziltoid: The Omniscient sock puppet, so I put on the album and played with them with the puppet for a bit and they were giggling like crazy. We got back to the homework, and she breezed through it while the youngest strummed on her guitar. After it was done and she played around on the keys for a bit, she picked up her guitar and was playing and singing with her sister. She insisted that I play the piano while they were playing, and I started messing around and stumbled upon the intro from My Dying Bride's Your River. They thought it sounded cool and stopped playing after a while to join me on the keyboard. I asked them if they wanted to hear where it came from, and they said yes. As soon as I hit play on the song, my oldest started dancing to the music. It fit too, this really pretty flowing pattern that she evolved as the song changed, while the youngest just listened intently. They both loved it, and the oldest said that she could feel the music and loved dancing. It was an amazing experience.

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As much as I admit to not wanting children this has to be one of the coolest things I have heard in a long time.

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Now I'm going to be thirsty for the rest of the day...

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You're welcome :D

And in my semi-inebriated state I wound up trem picking part of 'Without God' and wound up crafting a new riff well suited to the black/doom/death vibe I'm going for.

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Cambodian new year celebration took us by surprise at the local park today. It's usually quiet here but today is berserk. My son is involved with a rotating gaggle of dozens of children pursuing one another up and down playground slides in slow motion. Bright sunlight, the smell of barbequed meat and cigarettes, crowd noises, live music, a very busy ice cream truck. If I had a beer and a lawn chair, it would be kind of perfect.

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Cambodian new year celebration took us by surprise at the local park today. It's usually quiet here but today is berserk. My son is involved with a rotating gaggle of dozens of children pursuing one another up and down playground slides in slow motion. Bright sunlight, the smell of barbequed meat and cigarettes, crowd noises, live music, a very busy ice cream truck. If I had a beer and a lawn chair, it would be kind of perfect.

Yeah that festival is a  big deal in Lowell. I used to work with a handful of cambodians who live in Lowell and I heard it's a good time. I'm looking forward to Porch Fest in Somerville om 5/12. It's local bands from around the city playing on their porches.

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Yeah that festival is a  big deal in Lowell. I used to work with a handful of cambodians who live in Lowell and I heard it's a good time. I'm looking forward to Porch Fest in Somerville om 5/12. It's local bands from around the city playing on their porches.

Lowell seems to have a lot of festivals. I've never been much of a festival guy, but there's a good sense of community here and it's nice to have stuff to do with the family. My kid had a blast. He ran around for about three hours, ate some ice cream, skinned his knee - real character-building stuff.

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We just finished recording a rough demo of our first doom/death song. I feel like the vocals and drums could have been better, but we'll see what it sounds like with some mixing and EQ.

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Hey ban are you going do to a Bandcamp page for your new band

nice warm weather today

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Hey ban are you going do to a Bandcamp page for your new band
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I'm not sure TBH. I haven't really thought much about it, but that may be something that one of the other members does, like handling our social media presence. Our bass player was going to school for music marketing and production, so I'll probably let him do it. My main concern is just getting the songs done so that we can start playing shows again and record the album.

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I'm not sure TBH. I haven't really thought much about it, but that may be something that one of the other members does, like handling our social media presence. Our bass player was going to school for music marketing and production, so I'll probably let him do it. My main concern is just getting the songs done so that we can start playing shows again and record the album.

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That’s great to hear

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The travel to Prague has been quite entertaining, and I also managed to buy this nice magnet from Sedlec's ossuary: https://imgur.com/a/hzQkY6E   

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