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Well it’s the 1st day of 2025. I pray that this year is a blessed year for everyone. I’m looking forward to what the new year will bring. I’d like to get out of California this year and possibly move to Connecticut with my wife, or some place else that has a cheaper cost of living. Also, I’d like to move some place less crowded. There’s too many people trying to do the same thing at the same time here in Cali.

Prayerfully we can make our escape and get to a quieter pace of life. I know I still have to work for quite a few more years, but my wife is getting closer to retirement age so maybe we could live some place safe, where I could handle the bills and she could retire and go on social security and we’d be fine.

I want to keep making my music as well as DJing. I’m watching a Masterclass video my brother got me for Christmas from Questlove. He’s talking about DJing and curating music playlists and its an interesting video course. A lot of what he’s talking about I already know and understand, but it’s cool to see someone like hims take on the art of Djing.

Hopefully I can connect with some more people this year in the DJing and beatmaking space and get some allies/comrades I can share my love for those things with. Here’s to a great 2025 and beyond!

If anyone does come and read my blog, I wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. This year has been a trip and a half with all the things going on in mass media and social media. The election, and all the drama that ensues with politics. We the people need to galvanize and work to make the world a better place for ourselves. I know that a lot of people don’t want to hear the truth about this reality we are in, but eventually they will need to face facts.

A lot of the people we are told to look up to are not very good people, and they have no intention of changing. They are rich and powerful because of that fact. Money makes this wicked, material world go round, and those who have the most of it have carte blanche with what they can do in this world. My advice to any normal citizen of this world is to stay righteous, keep moving forward, and open your mind to other possibilities. There is a lot going on in this world right now and sticking your head in the sand is not the answer to making it a better place.

Seek knowledge and understanding, use the brain GOD gave you, and don’t believe everything you see or hear. If it’s on the TV it’s most likely a lie or fabricated. Just because someone smiles or banters with you doesn’t make them a good person. People do very evil things in the dark and you need to be aware of that fact to keep yourself and your family safe. Just because you don’t want to face negativity and evil doesn’t make it magically go away. Put on the whole armor of GOD and fight for what is right. Peace, love, and light to you. L8r

So we had to put our dog Maggie to sleep this past Monday. It was really difficult, and I’m still not feeling well about it. We had her for about 13 to 14 years and she was a part of our life on a daily basis. I walked her at least twice a day every day and she was such a big personality in the house. When I got her from the pound so many years ago, there was a note on her cage saying that the previous people brought her BACK to the pound after getting her because she barked too much.

That was very true about Maggie. She loved to bark…at people, other dogs, us, you name it haha. She was a great guard dog though, and she always alerted us when a package was being dropped off at the door or if someone was there close to it. I miss hearing her bark and I miss her presence in the home. Whenever we came home she greeted us at the door. She was always so excited and happy to see us.

She started having seizures about a month or two ago, and it progressively got worse as time when on. She lost a lot of weight to where she was skin and bones. She wasn’t her old self and we knew it was time to let her go. I pray to GOD that her animal spirit is happy and in a better place right now. I pray she is with GOD and the angels now and driving them crazy with her barking and endless energy. Maggie was a great dog and she’ll definitely be missed. I have a lock of her hair that the vet gave us before they put her to sleep. I’ll hold onto it until the day I die, because I don’t ever want to forget that dog.

She was a pleasure to have rescued from the pound, and she really made life interesting and enjoyable for the time she was with us. I hope we enriched each others lives as much as I think we did. RIP To Maggie, you will always be loved in the Harris household. L8r

So as we move towards the end of 2024, the entire year has been filled with distractions… P-Diddy, Kat Williams on Club Shay Shay, Ukraine vs Russia, and Israel vs. Palestine (Hamas). All of those things, believe it or not, cause subconscious anxiety, fear, and angst. If you follow them too closely and allow yourself to get invested in them, they have a negative affect on your well being.

My advice is to focus on your life and the lives of those around you that you care about. Don’t worry about what’s going on with these people in the spotlight, because it doesn’t affect your day to day life. Make sure you are taking care of your business and helping your friends and family take care of theirs. What is going on with some uber-rich celebrity has little to no bearing on what’s going on with you.

Keep pushing forward with yourself and trying to improve yourself. Who knows, maybe one day you’ll be a celebrity of some type, and you can let other people know how you got to that money and notoriety by putting in hard work and focusing on self improvement. Money and “fame” are not barometers of success, so don’t make that your goal. With whatever it is you are doing, just do your best at it and try to be a top performer at it. It’s hard with day to day life… sometimes to find the energy… sometimes to find the interest, but even still, give it all you’ve got.

GOD helps those who help themselves is a saying, that’s not in the Bible, but it is very true I believe. If it’s within his plan, and you are on the same page as him, you’ll succeed in what it is you’re trying to do. It’s Saturday night as I write this, and I wish you a great rest of the weekend, and a good week moving forward. Peace, love, and light to my readers. L8r!

So life has been a trip lately. Our car was having issues which caused me to miss some time from work and it was a pain in the butt to get repaired. Then we had a leak in the ceiling of our bottom floor apartment, which is requiring the entire bathroom area be demoed and re-done. As if that wasn’t enough, our poor little doggo Maggie started having seizures this past Saturday. Saturday was the first one myself and my wife noticed, but she’s had 3 more since then.

They seem to occur when she gets excited about food or going out and things like that. I’m not sure what is causing it, because we’ve had her for years without this issue. I did change her flea medication from Nexgard to K9 Advantix, and I’m wondering if that could be the cause. I feel so bad for her when she’s had them these past few days, because I can tell it scares her.

We need to take her to the vet, but money is tight and the vet is going to run you through the ringer with fees for different things. It really sucks. I ordered some Charlotte’s Web CBD dog chews that should hopefully be here by Wednesday, that I will give to her twice a day to see if it helps her. CBD, a component of hemp, has been shown to help people and animals that experience seizures.

The company that sells the products, Charlotte’s Web, is actually named after a little girl named Charlotte that had seizures very bad, and the CBD was the ONLY thing that would give her any relief and let her live a semi-normal life. I hope it helps Maggie, because I don’t want to see her go through that.

Life is crazy, and this type of “series of unfortunate events” is what makes so many people online and on Youtube feel like we are living in some type of hellish realm. I can think of one channel in particular where the guy feels that GOD is evil and his intent is to torture us all with these different bad things that keep happening in our lives. I don’t think GOD is some evil child holding a magnifying glass in the sun over us ants, but I often do wonder why we experience so much negativity and hardship in our lives.

There’s a lot of things I kind of have a grasp on, and a lot I don’t. I do believe we all get tested in life, no matter what walk of life we are in. From someone whose homeless on the street, to the King or Prince in a high castle, we all have things in life that test our morals, resolve, discipline, and values. The point is to pass those tests and be the best version of you that you can be. It’s not easy, but understanding that fact can go a long way towards helping you in the effort. Take it easy and have a great rest of the week. Peace….

So I was watching a video of this brother from Africa talking about how he agrees with “the devil’s” side of the story. He is basically of the belief that we are living in a hell realm as he calls it, and says that GOD is not what we think he is. I believe that this realm is not, in its current state, functioning the way GOD intended. It’s been co-opted by the evil one and his followers. Also, I believe that a lot of the notions that have been pushed about GOD are not true. GOD does not want you to “fear” him. Any entity that wants you to live in fear is not of GOD. GOD is love, peace, mercy, and grace.

I think that the people in general have been led down a path that makes them very ignorant to truths and more accepting of the programming of this “matrix” we are in. You have men that are truly convinced that it’s acceptable to have side girlfriends outside of their wife. They believe that if their wife won’t “put out” that they have the right to go to another woman to get the satisfaction they “deserve” from women. The notion that having intercourse is as required as oxygen is simply not true. There are monks who go for many years without relations with women. How do they do this? Because they have discipline. They aren’t “tail hounds” and they don’t obsess over such things. There was a time on this planet, I believe, when all men had that type of mentality. They knew the magic and power of intercourse with a woman, and they held it as something sacred to partake in with their wife, particularly in the goal of creating offspring.

This world we live in right now, they sell sex and perversities like it’s a commodity. People have no idea about how things really work. I won’t pretend that I know it all, but I do have some understanding from reading certain things and paying attention to my surroundings. I don’t believe that GOD is responsible or accepting of the world we see around us in this current state. He doesn’t agree with sex trafficking. He doesn’t agree with flaunting your sexuality for the world to see. He doesn’t agree with the greed of a lot of the corporations that operate today. He doesn’t agree with people working every day, only to not own much, be constantly tired, and have little free time to pursue their own creativity. This is my belief. Just like someone might believe GOD would send a person who is “gay” (hat he allowed to exist & experience the things they experienced) to hell. I don’t believe that, but just like someone else CAN believe that, I CAN believe what I just said he doesn’t agree with.

So many people are only concerned with themselves. They live their life every day and never once think to understand anything going on outside of their own little world. They’ve heard of the fact that hundreds if not thousands of Latino children, that were separated from their parents at the boarder some years back, have not been accounted for and not returned to their parents. Who knows what has happened to those children and what they are experiencing right now. Last we were told, they were being kept in cages of a sort and their parents were not with them. That was all over the internet for a bit and then… poof… like magic it went away and I doubt most people knew about it or even if they did know, they don’t think about it ever. People never ask themselves why are children so important to the people that do evil in this world? More importantly their blood. Someone made a video, I believe on Tik Tok, where they put together a ton of clips of celebrities saying they drink or use the blood of children to keep a youthful appearance. Why isn’t that video on major media outlets?

I won’t pretend to completely understand GOD, but I do know that where he sits, according to scripture, it hasn’t been much time that all of these things have been going on here in the earth realm. I hope he moves swiftly and quickly to turn things around and get the human race back on track. For the people who recognize it, we are tired of seeing all this wickedness go on in the world around us. We want a change, and we ask GOD that either he fix it for us, or please give us the power and knowledge to fix it ourselves. L8r…

Man, time is so fleeting! I feel like there’s not enough hours in the day to do what I want to do with myself. Honestly, I wish I didn’t have to go to sleep. If I could skip sleeping, I’d have all the time I need to do what it is I want to do and go to work in the day time. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way and you need sleep in order to function properly the next day. As it is, I really don’t get enough sleep to perform optimally.

I often find myself slightly scatter brained and doing things I probably wouldn’t do if I could get 9+ hours of sleep each night in bed. Sometimes I fall asleep at my desk at home and that’s not rejuvenating sleep at all. It’s not until I lay down in the bed that I feel I’m really resting and recovering from the activity of the day. But you know how it is. I want to stay up and DJ, or make beats, or watch people on Twitch/Youtube, or play my Playstation, etc. I even get up around 4:30am each AM so I can have some time to do some of those things before I have to head to my wage slavery.

I get the feeling that even people who are celebrities aren’t truly free. From the outside looking in, it looks like they have a lot of money and are living the life of Riley, but it’s not that at all. A lot of them have to participate in things they don’t want to. They are constantly dependent on the public “buying” their brand so they can stay relevant. A musician is only as good as their last album, or as the elites who control them say they can be. I won’t get conspiratorial, but they probably have to participate in things they really would rather not in order to stay in the graces of the “overseers”. That might explain why so many are drug and alcohol addicts.

Anyway, I’m grateful for everything in my life that doesn’t bring me displeasure. I hope that one day I can get a bit more of my time back. When I was working remotely during COVID, I was a lot happier. It wasn’t so bad being able to work at my home around my stuff and having more time to sleep in before I got to my computer to get to it. I could walk my dog Maggie more often and I could pet my feline Lucille and that kept them happy. I was able to make coffee for my wife in the AM and go to the grocery store on my lunch break to get add-ons for dinner that night. Maybe I should look for a remote position to find some of that happiness again in that regard.

It’s hump day Wednesday, and we’re almost to the weekend. Thanks for coming through and reading this. Stay safe, stay blessed, and keep looking for the truth about our reality and existence. Have a great rest of the week reader…

So I swapped out MPCs. I sold my MPC Live 2 which was in pristine condition with the original box and items, and picked up the MPC Key 61. The MPC Key 61 is basically a modern MPC with a 61 key keyboard integrated into it. It’s a full on music workstation that has the usual 16 Akai drum pads on it. I’m in love with it. It’s an amazing piece of gear and I’m geeked to be using it. It even works as a midi controller attached to my PS5 and using the music learning app Rocksmith plus. I can play the keyboard a little bit, but I’d like to become very proficient at it. I’m taking a break from the Rocksmith game/app to write up this post.

The Key 61 has a ton of shortcut buttons on it and it’s really easy to navigate the MPC OS when using it. It has a touch-strip which makes it really easy to initiate effects and things like that when making beats. You can plug in Sustain, Expression, and Footswitch pedals at the same time. I happen to have all 3, and I use them when needed. You can also install a SSD into the bottom of it and keep all of your files and samples on it with a large drive. It also has USB ports where you can plug in a USB drive should you need to move files around with that. You can also plug XLR speakers or mics into it, and it even has +48v phantom power for condenser mics!

All in all, it’s a very nice music device and I feel grateful to have it. I’ve already started 3 beats on it, and the one I was working on today I’m going to record out and upload to my Bandcamp page by this coming Tuesday. I may even push it through on my Distrokid. When the rest of the world is yammering about what’s going with Donald Trump and that fake shooting, I’m enjoying my music gear by making beats and djing where I can. Regardless of what’s going on in the world, I have to go to work in the AM, so I’m not going to spend my free time contemplating what’s going on in politics or the other nonsense going on in the media. Call me when you guys are ready to overthrow and revolt against some ish.

With that said, I hope you have a great start to this upcoming work week. Remember to listen to and make some dope music, and do your best to be positive, in spite of all the negativity around you. I’ll be doing the same, and starting my days looking forward to getting back home to my family and working with music. Peace, love, and light to you reader, and be blessed!

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…