Rubbish https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/ ...yup ja More Car Updates
After I picked it up in the afternoon, I walked downtown to go pay the car tax at the post office.I got the new disc while I was there and now both cars are taxed though next year!

The truck still needs to be MOT-ed by the end of the month though.

I need to keep on practicing driving though, maybe I should drive to and from work tomorrow. ]]> https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10551495520.html Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:45:12 +0900 Audio Tips to Help You Quit Sucking at Life.
-Just because you can turn up the bass on your stereo loud enough to drown out all other frequencies doesn't mean you should.
-If you don't know how to use EQ, just leave it flat. It sounds better than the ass you are probably going to dial up.
-If being in the same room as your stereo causes my ears to ring, use your brain for once and turn it down.

These tips will be useful for professional types:

-In the studio, don't record a brick off sound. Making everything as loud as possible sounds like pure ass.
-For the man behind the sound board at a concert, most people would like to be able to hear each instrument. Please help make this a possibility.
-Don't deafen me if I am at your show. Please!
-If you are DJ-ing someplace I am at, please turn your shitty music down low enough to at least allow me to have a conversation.

All of these "tips" are related to recent experiences I've had with people trying to piss me off by not knowing how to play music correctly. Well, the live music complaints are kind of old but so few engineers know what they are doing in live settings its not even funny. ]]> https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10547738570.html Fri, 28 May 2010 16:50:00 +0900 Car Updates Anyway, in related news I have been practicing driving the Mercedes. Its a lot easier to drive a manual transmission than I remember it being.

On Tuesday, I drove a loop around Saltergate Dr.

On Wednesday, I drove a loop around Jennyfield. I headed down to the round about at the end of Saltergate, drove all the way down to Ripon Road, turned left at the stoplight, turned left at the roundabout on to the A59, and the went back home taking Crowberry Drive.

Today I drove to and from work.

Tomorrow I will probably drive to work and then leave the car on base until time to take it to get MOT-ed on Tuesday.

頑張っています。 ]]> https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10546836299.html Thu, 27 May 2010 16:05:00 +0900 GRRR!
I leave work early today so I can get to the post office on time. My first mistake was to assume when she said "my local post office" she meant any post office. So I put my Crocs on and walk to the co-op and they have a sign on the window saying they can't handle Car tax. Next I figure, I'll go to the one on Cold Bath Road to avoid going into the center of town on a weekday. They can't handle it either, so I end up going to the post office downtown anyway. There I make my second mistake. I assumed I can pay with a credit card. Of course I can't though! Only ATM (with that stupid freakin' chip in it) or Check or Cash. So while the lady is already ringing up the tax disc for one year on the Nissan, I go and withdraw as much money as I can from the ATM. I am able to get enough to pay for the Nissan but am £20 short to pay for the Mercedes. I have a second ATM card with Community Bank but of course that is COMPLETELY useless anywhere except on Base.

Anyway, long story short, I need to try to go back and pay for the Mercedes tomorrow, except that the MOT for the Mercedes expires tomorrow so I am not sure if I can still do the tax disc with an MOT that is expiring the same day. I need to just get the stupid car MOT-ed but I suck at driving standard transmission cars. So if they don't let me pay for the disc tomorrow, I need to bug someone to help me get the car to a garage. I would go to Evan but his dumbass has to be in a class right now. I guess I'll have to bug Sean, see if I can get the car MOT-ed by Saturday and then pay for the tax disc also by Saturday since the post office will be closed on Monday for some silly little bank holiday.

What a pain... ]]> https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10545091586.html Tue, 25 May 2010 18:20:00 +0900 new headphones
残念 because I really liked those headphones. They were ちょっと uncomfortable if you wore them for long periods of time, but they were pretty nice sounding and the way they folded up was convenient.

While I was at Lakenheath, (after getting Taco Bell of course) I bought a new pair. They are the little earbud type everyone else uses. The cord is a bit thick but they sound really good. The only problem is you have to shove them in your ear just right to make them sound good. If they are off by even a little bit, they start losing the bass frequencies. Of course they move around a lot while walking or running and you end up messing with them a lot if you want them to sound good. Its quite a pain in the ass to be honest.

Oh well, I bought them, I better use them for a while.

At least they are green! ]]> https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10544173672.html Mon, 24 May 2010 17:40:00 +0900 Alconbury / Lakenheath
First we went down the M1 instead of the A1 and we ended up way to the west of Alconbury, which is right next to Cambridge. It took us a while to figure out where we were and then get back to the right place.

Of course all of that could have been prevented if his GPS (and his iPod) hadn't been stolen a few weeks ago.

Once we got there, I bought various uniform stuff I was missing from my Class A Jacket. They had Metallica's Death Magnetic on sale for 7 dollars so I went ahead and picked it up. I have been curious to hear it for a long while now, and its actually pretty good.

Once we were finished, we headed down to Lakenheath, which is a little bit further south. The main reason we went was to get Taco Bell, since (I think) that is the only one on the whole Island. Also while we were there, Sean was able to buy a replacement for his GPS.

We had left at 9:30-ish in the morning and by the time we got home, it was already after 7pm. Long Day. ]]> https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10542882496.html Sun, 23 May 2010 11:45:00 +0900 hi https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10426219291.html Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0900 時差ぼけ!!!!!!
Tonight I am attacking my body with caffeine hard enough to at least keep me awake until 10:00! This is pathetic. ]]> https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10245405962.html Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:05:00 +0900 another pigg picture.... アメーバピグ スナップショット
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]]> https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10245115318.html Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:15:10 +0900 Gackt - Miyazaki + DVD
Anyway, Miki and I went down to Miyazaki for another Gackt concert shortly before we returned to England. The first thing we noticed was how laid back things in Miyazaki were compared to Fukuoka. Everyone was just kind of standing about unorganized like, where as the people in Fukuoka immediately formed a line in front of Sun Palace. Also many more people were in causal clothing instead of dressing up all nice and stuff. Thats cool! Considering how small the city is, there was a ridiculous number of white people there. The age range of the fans was even more extreme than in Fukuoka. The youngest person in attendance was a newborn and the oldest person could be a Grandmother. A lot of older people came with their children and it looked like both mother and son or daughter were fans in all cases.

The show itself was the exact same set list. No shock there, it was what I expected. The new songs all still sounded badass and in Fukuoka we thought that Gackt might have been lip syncing some of the time, just because the vocals were too perfect. But with better seats in Miyazaki, Miki is fairly certain he was not lip syncing at all. I wasn't really paying close enough attention to his lips to make a call.

Afterwards we met up briefly with a few friends of a friend and hung out and took pictures. One of them was a dude that was doing his best (a very good job at that) of looking and acting like Gackt. We were all getting our picture taken together just because, and a huge ring of people formed around us. Turns out they too wanted to get their pictures taken with the Gackt look alike. He was a good sport about it and let them all. We then made our way outside, said our goodbyes and called it a night.

One other thing that was different was the cd and dvd selling booth they had set up, in addition to the tour merch booths. We ended up buying the Diabolos tour dvd.

It is a impressively 2 dvd set, with a set list made up predominately with songs from Crescent and Diabolos. It also features Gackt riding a horse though the Tokyo Dome as part of the introduction. Much like the shows we went to, it features an intro movie and two other movie segments. With the earlier portion of the show being more serious than the middle part. The dvd tour though, features tons of back up dancers, where as the tour we went to had only a few.

Anyway, the dvd concert performance is really impressive, however I think the tour we went to was better. ]]> https://ameblo.jp/jonaryn/entry-10245113846.html Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:00:00 +0900