Ok, I'm a week behind on blogs, so these are going to be a bit brief.

It's my birthday.

I'm woken up by the phone ringing at 10.30am. Oh yeah, my mate (lead guitarist) wanted to start playing guitar at 11am today, instead of like 1pm or 2pm like we keep doing, ugh.

I ignored the phone. About 10.45am, I dragged myself out of bed.

I called my mate (the drummer) back, told him that I was up, and getting ready. He'd left his place, and was on his way to my place.

I got ready, had a shower etc, I was just eating breakfast when he got there.

I finished eating, grabbed the guitar, and jumped in the car.

We went around to my mate's place, he was up.

We dragged his pc out to the loungeroom, while he had a shower, and setup the instruments again, we mucked around for a bit.

I hadn't brought any of the cables/adapters stuff, because I'm sick of mucking around with this crap. We were getting somewhere now though, with this new software.

About 12.30pm, we decided to get some lunch.

My mate wanted to go to a florist at Erina, and we'd decided to go and get the cables and stuff from my place, and a couple of soundcards.

My mate who picked me up took me back to my place, while our other mate went to Erina.

I went in, grabbed all the cables/adapters/microphone/soundcards etc, and went back to the car.

I tried calling my mate to find out where he was, but he didn't answer his phone.

We went back to his place, waited in the car out the front.

He called me back a few minutes later, was just at Erina, so my mate and I decided to just go and get some lunch at Hungry Jacks a bit 'round the corner.

We went there, got food, started eating. My mate rang me, asked where we were, and I told him that we were at Hungry Jacks, so he said he'd come there.

We kept eating, he turned up just as we finished our meals. He went through the drivethrough, so my mate and I dumped our rubbish in the bin, and went and jumped back in the car, and then followed our mate back home.

I didn't realise it, but a guy from work was in the pub near there, and saw me.

We went back inside my mate's place, he ate his lunch, I went about putting an extra soundcard back in his pc.

I don't have high hopes of this working, since last time windows wouldn't even boot with them in there.

Very surprisingly, it did boot.

I went about configuring the software to record from 2 cards, it claims to be doing it, but you can hardly hear anything, even using microphones in the mic inputs.

I mucked around for a while with that, trying to get the line levels set correctly, but it just wasn't working, it was so low, it was pointless.

I went back to using the creative card, it was fine, it must have a preamp on the microphone input or something, and the cheap and nasty cards I bought don't.

Oh well, I'm back to thinking about building that preamp box again, with 4 mic/instrument inputs, 4 separate preamps in parallel, and combined into 2 x 3.5mm stereo jacks to go into the line in on a couple of sound cards.

It was now about 3pm, because I remember checking my watch, to see if there was time to go to Jaycar, I think they shut at 4pm on Sunday, so we could have got there, but it would have been a waste of time, and it's not like I could have put them all together this afternoon anyway.

I ripped the soundcard out of the machine again, and then I then mucked around with the onboard soundcard, trying to see if I could use the mic input on it. I fiddled around, managed to get that detected (my mate had just disabled it in windows, rather than in the BIOS, which I only found after rebooting and going into the BIOS).

Once I got that configured, I tried to use Sonar with it, after selecting it, and restarting it, it would just complain that it was not supported, when I tried to use it anyway, and record, it would just refuse.

Crappy onboard thing.

We gave up at that point, and just put the one microphone in the Creative card, stuck it in the middle, and played a few songs.

I think we finished up a bit after 6pm, and then I packed all my stuff up, and my mate dropped me at home.

I took off again, and went to the supermarket, bought some dinner, and went home again.

On Saturday night, when I rode to my mate's place, I noticed the front fender wobbling around everywhere, when I looked at it, I saw that the tear had gone right up the side, and was starting to go backwards, through the forks. The whole thing is going to tear off soon.

I took it off, and looked at it. It looks like it could be welded, but I'm not sure, since I'm not a welder, and don't really know anything about it.

I put it back on the bike again. I tried to find if there was a way to stop it wobbling so much, and wondered what would happen if I stuck something in the tear, to stop the fender from shearing back and forth across it.

I looked around, Dad's throwing out a bunch of old computer crap, I looked for a bit of cardboard. I didn't find any, but I found a Microsoft license agreement book, and it was printed on think paper.

I grabbed the cover off that, folded it up, and jammed it in the tear, it seemed to work.

Wow, I think I just found the first practical use for a Microsoft product.

I don't remember what I did for the rest of the day, not much, probably just ate dinner, and watched some tv.