Quite a few things have happened since the last blog input.
Remember the deep ache from yard work? It turns out that it wasn't my arm but rather neck problems. They called it cervical spondilosis which is a spinal degeneration disease much like Osteoporosis of the spine.
I have had nerve root blocks and physical therapy with minimal results. My MRI was discouraging and it show that I have been lucky up to this point. Sometime this month I will probably go through a review to see if and when I am to have 3 of my vertebrae fused.
For my birthday I accumulated enough money to purchase a faster and more capable PC for running Pro Tools on. I built my own Quad Core machine using the Intel Q6600 and the Asus P5q Pro Mainboard. It ran for a little more than 30 days and just died. After about 4 days of trying to get the machine stable and dealing with Asus technical support I had to buy a new hard drive and another pair of Corsair Dominator Ram. ChaChing! Ouch... Repairs are costly still of hot rodded Machines.
I also bought Digidesign Structure LE and downloaded a huge number of patches (audio samples) for composing. I have so many songs that are unfinished and much of that has to do with a strong dislike of my own voice. Some songs are started but I can't seem to the timing or somethings right enough to motivate me to move forward.
Hopefully I can finish something soon...
More later ;)
