Month: June 2024

Hey what’s up reader.. all is good in my neighborhood. I just got a new Rane 70 DJ mixer. I now have a total of 3. The Ecler Nuo 2.0 w/ Eternal crossfader, the Pioneer DJM-S11, and now the Rane 70. The 70 is a dope mixer and it’s built like a tank. Even the FX paddles are beefy and well built. It makes my S11 feel a bit less well made. The S11 is still dope, but the Rane is definitely made for the traveling or battling DJ.

The sound quality on the Rane is very good. It’s about the same quality as the S11 and I’m very happy with it. The Mag Four crossfader is pretty decent as well. It’s not as good as the Magvel Pro on the S11 or the Eternal fader on the Ecler which is the best fader I’ve ever used. It’s decent enough though and you can do some tight cutting on it. I am considering upgrading to an Innofader for the 70 that is basically just an Innofader PNP3, which is a nice crossfader. We’ll see if I end up doing that or not. If I do, I may make a video showing me doing it for my Youtube channel, that you can find here by the way: http://www.youtube.com/@GODInTheWax444

Other than that I’ve been slaving away at my IT job. IT can really be a pain in the behind sometimes. Someone thought it would be a smart idea to have like 37+ new hires start this coming Monday. Me and the other IT tech were slaving away trying to image laptops for the last 2 weeks, as well as help the users with daily issues. We also had to setup their desks which we didn’t get done yesterday (Friday). My co-worker is out on Monday, so I’ll have to work on that by myself this coming Monday as well as deal with the backlash of people needing to be setup and some other new hires needing laptops and desks.

I swear it seems like this life ish is built to stress you out and give you a hard time. I’m not going to let it though. I’ll sit there with a blank expression on my face if people come at me crazy. They could fire me for all I care, I’ll just collect unemployment and be happy to not be bothered anymore. Granted I don’t WANT to get fired, I prefer collecting my paycheck, but I’m just saying before I’ll be worried about that I won’t care about it. I’ve lost and quit jobs before and everything turned out ok. I’m here still standing and still moving forward.

I’m going to relax this weekend and get some DJing in and maybe go to the record shop later today. I got a little more disposable income since paying off some debts, so I’ll maybe splurge a bit and get a few new albums. Nothing too crazy. Maybe spend like $50-60 at the shop and get something good I can listen to this weekend and add to my collection. I’m up to about 500+ records owned now which is pretty crazy. I want more and more and more. I want to be one of those DJs that has wall to wall records in a room with their setup. We need to move into a 2 or 3 bedroom pad before I can do something like that though.

Peace and blessings to you, and I hope you have a good week upcoming. L8r!

Hey what’s up reader? If you’re reading this, I hope you’re doing well and enjoying your journey through life. I am doing ok, and after receiving a complete remission from Leukemia diagnosis, I am feeling healthy and blessed. I am a bit tired, but that’s just from the sleep deprivation that tends to plague a lot of us stuck in wage slavery. You spend 10+ hours going to, at, and leaving work, then when you get home you want to relax and do what YOU want to do, but you only have a few hours at night to do so. I have been going to sleep lately around 10:45pm or 11pm. I am usually settled in at home by 6pm after work, so that gives me a bit under 5 hours to take care of things around the house, walk the dog, and so on.

I have recently discovered burning Palo Santo wood. It smells good and its said that it gets rid of negative energy in the area, which I believe. I’m writing this at 6:30am before work, and I’m burning some right now. I’ll see how it starts off my day and if I feel better as I go through the day. We all get bogged down with negativity from the things we see out in the world, dealing with certain aspects of work, and even sometimes the people in our home. You have to find some way to cope with it and find some positive energy out of it. Meditation can help, as can smudging items like Palo Santo and sage.

I’m still DJing and scratching/juggling. Got to keep at it even though its sometimes hard to find the time. I’m also still making beats on my MPC Live 2. I need to finish some out and put them up on my Distrokid, or at the very least on my Bandcamp page. Hopefully this weekend I can work on that. I’m trying to collect more vinyl records as I go along, and I have recently realized that buying from Amazon.com is cheaper than buying at a record store. I know that sucks, but when a record shoppe is charging $38 for a record that costs $21 on Amazon, it’s hard to compete. Vinyl records are making a comeback, and a large conglomerate like Amazon is all aboard the train. That’s good for the consumer, but may spell doom for these mom and pop record shops.

That’s about it for the update. I’m still slaving away at an IT job and doing what I need to do to pay bills. I just finished paying off a major debt, so hopefully my money situation improves as I go along. I’ll post here again when I remember to, but I enjoy having this page to go back and look what I was thinking about at a certain time in the past. Peace, love, and light to you and stay blessed. L8r…