Skylines

I wrote this yesterday, couldn't post it till now....

You know what i owe yall a long post. I'm sitting here in a slightly uncomfortable office chair in Central's computer lab being bored and listening to Taylor Swift on my walkman. I just realized a few minutes ago something amazing - when i look up, right in front of me is an enormous plate glass window looking out on the most incredible view of the Charlotte city skyline i have ever seen, even in a photograph. I mean it is beautiful. I love the bright blue sky... it's kinda noisy/quiet in here... Kinda nice though. I'm waiting for Zach to finish his math class so we can head across the street to Audio Engineering :-D It's syllabus day so that means we'll be sitting in the classroom just reading out of the book and listening to Rich teach but hey it's still gonna be incredible :-D I absolutely can't wait.

On a different note - the recording studio!!!!! Wes is clearing out some space right now down in his basement, which is where we'll be constructing it. I'm trying to figure out how the walls will be constructed - we don't want to build full plastered walls but at the same time we need them to be sturdy and soundproof dividers... Next few days we'll be transporting the special fiberglass soundproofing insulation to the basement and then taping the area off i guess. Once we figure out the walls and draw a blueprint, we'll start construction. After the walls are built, we'll double-insulate them. We plan to build two rooms, one a "live" room where the recording will take place, the place where the mics and stuff go, and then the other will be the "control" room where we'll house the computers, mixing equipment, sound boards, and speakers, along with about 200 other pieces of equipment =P Wes i've been getting so many ideas for the studio just typing this.... can't wait to go over there and map it all out!! Basically that's the plan, it'll be added to as we go along... we hope to have this studio as a place to experiment and record demos for AMP so when we go to the big studio we'll be prepared. We'll keep yall updated and we'll have pictures coming soon (i hope!!)

For all of you who have been praying for my dad, a little quick update: He's home from the hospital and he's doing great!! His doctor decided just to do a partial knee replacement on the right knee, and we hear the surgery couldn't have gone more perfectly. He's at home watching tv and napping and hobbling around with his walker. He's still in pain, but we expected that. Thank you all for praying! You guys are amazzzing.

Well how bout i talk generally about life for a minute... i think it's all gonna work out. So much going on, but it's gonna be fine. Iv'e started keeping a list of my current problems and my current assets (for lack of a better word) and good things in my life. I was amazed to find out, that even though the list was long with my current problems, the good things list was much longer!! That is a reason to praise God. And also, half the "bad things" are actually being worked out to be "good things" so right now i'm just not worried. Sure life is hard, real hard. But i think with God most importantly, and with you my amazing friends, i'll get through. That's all i've really got to say right now...

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