I can still hear the beats in my head. The cyclical hum of the computer fan, the air conditioning, the patterns of bumps in the road on the way home.

I have this thing going with Detroit techno. It's my comfort zone, it's my family away from home. Our friends at Paxahau have pulled off a huge festival, well organized, as smoothly flowing as anything I've ever seen.

I had to leave because my ride home was tired, leaving behind Rich about to play yet another set, and a cute punk rocker girl who kept meowing and clawing at me. It was really, really hard to leave.

More thoughts later. This one will take a while to digest.

How could it possibly take 5 or 10 years to update a website?

How about distraction. Chasing women. Focusing on immediate priorities while abandoning long term planning.

Clearly, I will have to update the website.

I have a strange feeling, having just rode out the derby rush. There were a lot of mistakes I would have made in the past that were avoided- I put my car in the shop for four days and had it maintained _before_ driving it into the ground. Bills are paid. I was done printing for the horse sale before I left, not printing at the last minute. At the shop is a pile of well organized work orders.

There's still stuff to be done- redo both the company and the untranslatable site, hopefully in time for DEMF, along with a promotional blitz for both. Work on getting an automatic press. Keep going to the gym and systema. Keep upgrading the workflow for the memetech- make it to where every job doesn't need to go through my hands to get priced and organized right... but still, all these things are happening.

I feel like I'm done with a level of a video game, and all I'm doing now is running around to see if I missed anything cool. But really, it's time to go on to the next page, an increased level of difficulty.

Maybe it's the wrong thing to ask for. Maybe I should just enjoy this.

Oh well. Tomorrow it's time to sell horses. There's a computer that's acting strange, I need to keep an eye on it- brand new Dell that says the motherboard battery is dying. I tweaked the connectors and it works now, but I have a strange feeling it's going to make life interesting tomorrow if it goes out.

Sleeping in motel beds makes me realize I need to get a new one at home.

post-derby. Spent the actual race at a BBQ at Marea's house, 3 blocks from the track. Hung out last night at a couple of small events, mostly chilling, did the designated driver bit and got a little sleep. Now it's off to the sale.

discovery: electic sheep is a very pretty open source screen saver. it's a collaborative project driven by user ratings of trippy screen saver graphics, shared and downloaded, seeded with leftover random data from your graphics card. sweetness.

have a good post-derby existence.

craziest. memetech day. ever.

started at 7, went to the gym. realized that my left arm is weak as hell. biked to the shop since my car is hissing at me (blown hose, which is a symptom of something else- a continuation of the coolant issues for the volvo) - anyway, it's a busy time to run a business without a car.

we knocked out 6 good sized orders, while waiting on an art setup that was supposed to be all finished by yesterday. still got to track down some flyers coming in on a bus (!) and we'll see if things get finished then.

tomorrow promises equal insanity.

ok, so it wasn't the craziest, but it was up in the top ten.

All I'm going to say here is that it's the wrong night for me to be reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.

(Expletives deleted... I can't stay angry very long.)