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Ah, 2004. The year I started this LJ.
Also a big year of change, this one.
I was actually ahead in my finances and figured I could afford to rent my friend Bruce's old apartment (which fell through, but gave me the impetus to keep looking). I'd decided to cut down on some of the cd buying after a few years of spending at least $70 a week on cds. And after a good six or seven years of collecting comics, Showcase Comics closed nearly without warning. This gave me reason to stop collecting so many comics and other things. I even started ripping CDs onto my hard drive and getting rid of a lot of them for extra money.
Writingwise, I'd stalled on The Process of Belief, and while stepping away from that one for awhile, I started writing a vampire novel based on a weird dream I'd had, which would eventually become Love Like Blood. By this time my 7-days-a-week/2-hours-a-day writing habit had been dropped, partly due to exhaustion and partly due to frustration. I still wrote, but not quite as often as I'd had.
Workwise, things were getting even more frustrating at Yankee Candle. We'd lost a few long-standing coworkers either due to quitting or getting fired. Temps were few and far between. It had become your usual understaffed/underpaid/overworked situation, and Bruce and I had gotten rather pissed about it by then. It wasn't much fun working there anymore. The only actual part that was sort of fun was when I volunteered again to do the mail run between YC's buildings (some of which were a good few miles apart), something I'd done in the summer of 2003 as well.
As for life?
Well...after commenting on each other's LJs (and after![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
head58 emailed me with a "ya know...just sayin'..." hint), I went to 2004's Worldcon in Boston, where I met emmalyon for the first second time. We met up frequently during the con, chatted a lot, attended a lot of the same con panels, and had a lot of fun together. A little later at one of head58's parties, he and lynxreign hinted shamelessly that I offer to drive emmalyon to her next destination, which happened to be Newport RI for a business meeting. Our first official dates, I suppose...by winter of 2004, I was making weekend trips down to New Jersey to visit her, and by March of 2005 I had quit my YC job and moved in. And the rest, they say, is history. :)
SO! Musically? A lot of interesting stuff, most of it heard on Launchcast...nothing that was absolutely brilliant that floored me, but it at least kept me entertained and provided more writing soundtracks. :)
Oh--and it was also the year of the mashup, apparently. I have a LOT of mashups from this period.
Videos below...
( I got soul but I'm not a soldier )
So all in all, 2004 may have been frustrating at times, but it ended on a very good and positive high note!
Also a big year of change, this one.
I was actually ahead in my finances and figured I could afford to rent my friend Bruce's old apartment (which fell through, but gave me the impetus to keep looking). I'd decided to cut down on some of the cd buying after a few years of spending at least $70 a week on cds. And after a good six or seven years of collecting comics, Showcase Comics closed nearly without warning. This gave me reason to stop collecting so many comics and other things. I even started ripping CDs onto my hard drive and getting rid of a lot of them for extra money.
Writingwise, I'd stalled on The Process of Belief, and while stepping away from that one for awhile, I started writing a vampire novel based on a weird dream I'd had, which would eventually become Love Like Blood. By this time my 7-days-a-week/2-hours-a-day writing habit had been dropped, partly due to exhaustion and partly due to frustration. I still wrote, but not quite as often as I'd had.
Workwise, things were getting even more frustrating at Yankee Candle. We'd lost a few long-standing coworkers either due to quitting or getting fired. Temps were few and far between. It had become your usual understaffed/underpaid/overworked situation, and Bruce and I had gotten rather pissed about it by then. It wasn't much fun working there anymore. The only actual part that was sort of fun was when I volunteered again to do the mail run between YC's buildings (some of which were a good few miles apart), something I'd done in the summer of 2003 as well.
As for life?
Well...after commenting on each other's LJs (and after
head58 emailed me with a "ya know...just sayin'..." hint), I went to 2004's Worldcon in Boston, where I met emmalyon for the head58's parties, he and lynxreign hinted shamelessly that I offer to drive emmalyon to her next destination, which happened to be Newport RI for a business meeting. Our first official dates, I suppose...by winter of 2004, I was making weekend trips down to New Jersey to visit her, and by March of 2005 I had quit my YC job and moved in. And the rest, they say, is history. :)SO! Musically? A lot of interesting stuff, most of it heard on Launchcast...nothing that was absolutely brilliant that floored me, but it at least kept me entertained and provided more writing soundtracks. :)
Oh--and it was also the year of the mashup, apparently. I have a LOT of mashups from this period.
Videos below...
( I got soul but I'm not a soldier )
So all in all, 2004 may have been frustrating at times, but it ended on a very good and positive high note!
