Napping

I took a nap today for about an hour, and now I've decided I need to nap more often!
I've been staying up way too late for the past week and have been trying to catch up on sleep (staying up late writing this blog entry doesn't help either), but I think the nap in the middle of the day equates to about twice as much normal (night) sleep.
You know that you're not getting enough sleep when every morning you are singing the tune of "I'm so tired" by the Beatles...and can't quite wake up without that shower and morning cup of coffee, well...at least that has been my morning "tiredness" guage.

Streets of L.A. and the Line 6 FBV Shortboard

I recently bought the Line 6 Shortboard to go with my new Amp, it is a really great addition, and now I've been playing my guitar lots more and playing with the Wah pedal. The FBV Shortboard unlocks something like 32 extra amp models/effects to play with too...at first I bought the Line 6 Floorboard model, which doens't work with my Spider II series Line 6 amp. The Shortboard is only $20 more, so I'm actually glad the floorboard didn't work with my amp so that I could get the FBV Shortboard footswitch. Line 6 definitely needs to get a better naming convention for products, the floorboard box says "Works with all Line 6 digital amps", and the FBV Shortboard says "...not compatable with spider...series amps," if you go to the Line 6 website, their nice little footswitch guide makes it clear that the floorboard is for the older Spider I series amps and the FBV series of footswitches are for the newer Spider II's and Vetta's.

I've also been playing True Crime Streets of L.A. again on my PS2, after killing the zombies and the demon heads in the sewer, I couldn't kill the freaking dragon for months until I finally passed the annoying laser sight gun-improvement test, and used that on the little guy. The trick is to hit him as much as you can in the head while he's going around the outside (hold the fire button to get into slow time mode), then when he popps his head up to breathe fire on you, use the slow time mode again to hit him as fast as you can in the head, if you get him enough he'll just drop down into the lava and you can do it all over again, if you don't...run like hell to the side so that he doesn't flame you, and look out for his tail. I'd be done with the game by now if I had the PC version, first person shooters are impossible on a console when you don't have the perfect mouse/W-A-S-D (keyboard) combo.

Incubis Concert

Last night I saw Incubis at the Forum (in Inglewood), Incubis was great and the Sparta band that opened for them was pretty good too. The only thing that sucked about the venue was the $20 parking and the fact that they didn't have the parking lot under-contol at all leaving, so we just sat in the parking lot waiting to leave last night for almost an hour. I don't think I would choose to go back to the Forum again unless I really want to see the band and they aren't playing at another venue in the area.
Not much else to report, I've signed up for classes at Santa Monica College and Pierce College, I'm taking a couple of music classes, a drawing class, and hopefully a creative writing class (if I can get my transcripts from CSUS in time). So starting Aug. 30th I'll be really busy, but I'm looking forward to the classes, they should be lots of fun.