All is well. Finally building up some savings for the first time in years, hopefully my transmission with 155K miles on it holds out (no slipping, but it tends to get clunky at slow speeds on the 1st to 2nd shift... guess I'll just drive fast), and I can get my brake pads & shoes replaced before too long. I'm also going to beg for new tires. With any luck, ol' Kreiger should be ready for the drive to MFF come November, and I'll have enough left over to actually afford it.

 warcat still needs a drummer and a bassist. Found another guitarist in Knoxville, a real artist who's great not only with a guitar but makes movies as well. Cool dude. He can also play drums, but nether one of us have a set. I'm able to use my dad's garage for practice (hopefully that remains so), but meanwhile my little mixer has found use for practice in the air conditioning of my apartment.

Still stuck with just my laptop, so recording gets a little cumbersome with just 2 USB ports (thereby requiring me to unplug my external HHD or my mouse). Combat Arms, oddly, runs better on it... at leased until some one gasses me or lights me on fire, causing my screen to go black x_x. Once I get $2.5K (and nothing breaks first), I'm planning to build a new desktop system. It'll have a Sabertooth MoBo, 6-core processor, and for the sake of silence, a fan-less graphics card. Great thing about about a Sabertooth, it's got zoned cooling with a thermal radar, so no problems there. Add on a USB mixer, and eventual studio rack, and I'll have a nice little studio rig. Looks like it'll be a ways down the road, though.