***PUBLIC*** Slimmin' down in the name of Rock n' Roll

Good evening ladies and gentlemen
welcome to the show
we have a little bit of everything
for you tonight
from rock to blues
and funk to folk

It's okay to be curious
and want to know how we sound
we'll get around
hit the beat
with our bad self
sittin' on the shelf
waitin' til the right time
for every boy and girl
to make their way
in this wicked wicked world...

gah. I really want to not be tired in the evenings so I can actually enjoy something besides television before going to bed.

Cutting back on my intake is really hard--I love to snack but get tired of some things rather quickly. Like fruit. Last night I made a light dinner with a salad and then gorged myself on icewater for the rest of the night. My bladder woke me up at 3 a.m., but at least I didn't wake up feeling like crap for letting myself down.

Doesn't help that Garret decided to make ice cream on Sunday. It's really sweet, and he added crushed coffee Oreos to it. Deeelish. Lucky for us the ice cream maker doesn't hold a lot. That, and since he didn't whip the heavy cream into a thicker consistency first it's extremely rich and only really good in small doses.

I'll be re-recording voice tracks for 'Grow Up' tonight. The original vox were a scratch track for the drums and bass to work with. Johnny lays down the guitar first with a click track, and I guess it's bringing out the diva in him to be the first instrument to record every time. The third song is a tune the guys call 'Pearl Jam.' I have no idea why, unless it's because the song is incredibly brooding and monochromatic. I wish they'd come up with a new name for it, because nowhere in the song do I actually sing the words 'pearl' or 'jam.'

( After practice Friday, I was helping Johnny load his stuff... )

*public* always on top

I noticed that a handful of LJ users have a post-dated entry at the top of their journals--how does one post-date the entry and NOT have it show up at the top of all their friends' friends lists? Does it just not show up on friends lists until the actual date it has been set for?

*public*

Uh-oh... I think I'm developing an obscene attraction to Jack Black. rowr.

*public* Need a little help, please

A couple of months ago we got these great Dell UltraSharp flat screen monitors. They're really nice--clear, no flickering, save space, etc.

So tonight for the first time since we got these monitors I decided to put together a new splash page for my website. This meant creating a character in another program, doing a screen capture (select screencap from menu, save as bmp coz it's the only option), and then opening that screencap in Photoshop for retouching. I have never had a problem doing this before.

Tonight I open my screencap and it looks washed out and the colors are really distorted. Kind of like a Polaroid just before it finishes developing itself--not quite the color you took the picture of, and there's a little too much flash.

I'm beside myself--I can't use my screencap at all if Photoshop is just going to screw it up. What if it's not Photoshop, but SimPose that's the problem now? I can't think of what could have happened. Any other Photoshop users out there got an idea of what went wrong? Are the display drivers on my new monitor to blame?

Thanks in advance.