And The Bass Keep Runnin' Runnin', And Runnin' Runnin', And Runnin' Runnin'...

Hola!

Another busy day for me yesterday...I got very little sleep before I had to get up for my doctor's appointment which turned out to be a waste of my time. I pretty much went in there, got my blood pressure taken, was told all my bloodwork from last time looked good and I was outta there within about 20 minutes. Ah well...what can ya do? Could've been much worse, I guess...coulda told me I was pregnant or something. :D

Anyway...shortly after that, I met up with some buddies of mine and we headed up to another friend's house for a little "band practice." Surprisingly, since I've owned my bass for approximately 3 years and only started playing it recently, I'm gettin' pretty decent. We've got a couple songs down well enough to play full speed and, compared to the actual song, we don't sound half bad! Maybe there's hope for my guitar-playing skills after all...

I'm hoping today is fairly relaxing...I'm planning on working out and doing a lot of sitting around. If this is the case, you probably won't hear from me until after tomorrow...if something comes up (as life tends to do to me), I'll be sure to let all of you in on the incredibly, amazingly juicy* details!

*"incredibly, amazingly juicy" details are likely to include "Went to ____'s house. Played video games. Had a good dinner. Went to bed much later than planned."

Not much else to report...considering I called the last 2 days "busy," it's not so much to write about as a few things that took up a large part of my day.

Happy Hump Day!

-Jake

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The Way It Was...

Hey everyone!

Today was fairly interesting...went ice skating/played ice hockey for the first time in my life!  Surprisingly, it wasn't as horrible as it always seems to be in movies....constant falling down and blisters the size of an orange by the end of the day.  I do have one decent-sized blister, but I rarely fell and, though I'm slow and not much good with a hockey stick, I think I did alright for my first time!  Makes me wonder what other things on TV seem really difficult but aren't....hmmm....

Also today, played a little bass for the first time in months, and, in another first for me, first time actually playing with other people and a song! (not counting GuitarPro).  Worked a little on Ten Ton Brick (Hurt), but the majority of the time we watched Ryan attempt to tune his guitar and then worked out a bit of Remedy (Seether). Doin' the same thing tomorrow, and it will probably be similar...heading up to David's house so we can put the songs through a stereo and add David on drums and Taylor on vocals...get a real setup goin'.

On a less fun note...doctor appointment tomorrow morning.  Which probably means I should get headin' to bed...I feel it's going to be rather difficult getting up tomorrow after today's adventures!

Hope y'all had a great day!

-Jake

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A New Chapter

Hey All,

My favorite band, who I shamelessly promote, Hurt (clickclick), Facebook statuses. Well, this idea has finally made it way into this blog as well. Starting today (officially January 3rd), this will be more of a "true" blog than just random poetry and lyrics and shtuff.

Now don't get me wrong...I doubt this will ever be whatever constitutes a "good" blog, but hopefully this change will make me update more often and give some less depressing, more balanced +/- coverage of whatever my topic has to be. No promises that the topics themselves will be less depressing, but hopefully I will better represent more sides of the topics I hit. Hopefully they won't be so serious all the time either.

Basically what I'm going for is a sort of journal-ish thing. I'll see or notice or hear about random things in life and, if something strikes me as interesting enough to write a paragraph or 4 about it, there's my post. Hopefully interesting, if not, well...we'll just say the blog can't go far downhill from where it's at. Nothing against my readers but, well...I only have proof of one or two of you. I appreciate your loyalty, but I'd like to reach a larger audience as well if possible.

This has been a long post so I'll finish up. I want to again thank anyone who read the old style of the blog and especially those who came back time and time again. For those who liked the old stuff, I'll still throw some of that in here when I come up with it as well. I would also like to welcome any new or return-from-hiatus readers; I hope this time I can manage to be entertaining enough to convince you to stick around!

A late toast...I have used it before, but it is fitting here:
To old friends and new, to great times and learning through hardships, and to a New Chapter. Happy New Year, everyone.

Sincerely and Humbly,
-Jake

PS. If you ever need to get in touch with me, please feel free to email cynicallyinfluenced@hotmail.com. I probably won't check it real often unless I start getting a lot of mail, but I WILL get back to you as soon as possible.

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