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Category: Random Thoughts

Learning to crawl, learning to post audio

  • 01.24.14
  • Dale
  • · Blog · Fatherhood · Musings · Random Thoughts

Baby Abby is learning how to crawl. Apparently it is very frustrating – she does a bunch pushup-type motions, rocks back and forth, cries and coos, then falls over, sometimes getting her face better acquainted with the floor. I’m feeling about the same, learning how to really update my website, make posts look the way that I want, and in general un-christmas my web presence.

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So Abby is getting there, about as quick as I am. Fun times. There’s a new/old demo on the homepage media player – I just learned how to do that! Now that Nikki’s computer is up and running so she can make with the designs, I had the time/gumption to figure that out without asking her to just do the thing for me. That means I’m growing as a person, right?

 

What’s your entertainment thinking about?

  • 11.29.13
  • Dale
  • · Blog · Gigs and Gigging · Random Thoughts

I can’t believe I never published this!!!

I wrote this post last year – before I told anyone we were pregnant with Abby, at a gig that was kinda killing my soul just a little. Anyway, I had a lot of fun with it, and I hope you like it too:

I’m at a gig right now. I’m writing instead of focusing on the job. I’m still doing great, don’t worry. Folks are talking, dancing and in general enjoying themselves. I do my people watching at gigs that I don’t have to think too hard about. Here’s some things I’m musing about as these folks go about their celebration:

I don’t care what you saw on television. When you’re confronted with a microphone in public, don’t tap the damn thing. That just makes you look dumb. Scratch the screen if you really don’t know if it’s on or not. Tends to annoy people a lot less.

When that microphone starts to feed back, don’t cover it. That makes it worse.

Pregnant women throwing up is hilarious.

That orange that’s not an orange, but rather a chocolate thing, and you smash it and it’s a buncha pieces? Those are dumb.

Couples that keep their finances seperate freak me out. Makes no sense. Either you’re supporting each other as a unit, or you’re just dating. Kinda.

Jimmy Buffet is kinda boring. I like Brian Adams though. How are those 2 ideas related? Bite me.

I want a CR-V.

I wish the soundcheck feature on iTunes was better.

That’s all I got. I think I’ll sing a few songs now – – – hold on…

Professional people fake hula dancing pleases me. Make a video and post it as a response below!

That is all. Imma go sing now. Do your job well, you guys.

Hey, Tuesday!

  • 11.12.13
  • Dale
  • · Musings · Random Thoughts · Wee Wednesdays

Took Addi in for report card pickup today – she’s doing real good, and I’m super glad and proud of her. She can be a total space cadet sometimes, but if anything, that only delays whatever agenda Nikki or I happen to have. By and large, she’s a super sweetheart, and I’m so glad to have her 🙂

Are the works of children protected under copyright law? Here’s ponies or something aiming their farts at each other, for all I can tell. This ain’t addi’s. but it’s AWESOME. I would love a dramatic reading of the story, if you got the time…

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YOTI, Haloween, Kids, et al

  • 11.04.13
  • Dale
  • · Blog · Musings · Random Thoughts

Happy Monday!

I hope you’re reading this at a cubicle – that makes my Monday morning pajama-party all the sweeter! Did you take advantage of the time change? I didn’t but, I’m pretty sure this is the temporal arrangement that my body prefers…

Have some pictures!

The kids have been great the last few days, since they have a bucket of candy, though it wasn’t all super easy the whole time for them. Aiden resisted dressing up –

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but once he realized that people were giving him candy, he was unstoppable.

Addi was Fanky Stein from Monster High:

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The best part was when she popped the bolts off of her neck at the end of the night. Apparently, 3M makes surgical grade neck adhesives. Adorable.

Abby was a fuzzy pink monster!

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She slept almost the entire time we were out – made me only kinda regret that her costume was like thirty bucks… A sleeping baby is a happy baby, though, and that thing didn’t breathe, so she was super warm out in the rain and everyone had lots of fun.

I like to pretend that Nikki went as a zombie apocalypse survivor the day before the outbreak. I went as a clone of myself (how meta).

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Now Saturday night I was at YOTI in Mt Prospect with Something Beautiful. It was our first show with the backing tracks instead of a drummer in a few years, so as far as I’m concerned, it took a minute to readjust to the level of precision I had to play with, but we did really well, I think.

Big thanks for Skull Fogger for coming out Saturday night, and to Scars of Armageddon for supplying amps, and Rock in Chicago for promoting and coming to hang out!

Shopping with me may or may not be embarrassing.

  • 10.30.13
  • Dale
  • · Blog · Musings · Random Thoughts · Wee Wednesdays

Took Addi shopping for dinner, and there was a vampire holding a bunch of liquor in the middle of the freezer section! I sprang into action, whipped out my phone and took a selfy of me killing the hell out of him!

Also, Abby.

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Baby Abby vs Skeletor!

  • 10.15.13
  • Dale
  • · Blog · Fatherhood · Random Thoughts · toys on tuesday

Happy Tuesday! I don’t have any He-Man toys unpacked, but I got photoshop 🙂 That is all

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Let’s play with Transformers

  • 10.01.13
  • Dale
  • · Blog · Musings · Random Thoughts · toys on tuesday

I like lots of things, but love a select few. Interacting with things I care about gives me energy to be passionate about things. Reminds me that life is fun. This is Predaking:

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I had been seeing the Transformers Prime figures, and the Beast Hunter line, wondering what the deal was with that. I hadn’t gone all the way through Prime yet, so I didn’t get it. Most annoying to me was the way it seemed like they were just redressing the old characters in some organic looking armor to make a buck – which in some cases they do – but anyway…

I DID finally finish Prime, and I’m totally in love with it – not going to need all the toys, just named characters as they were animated. I’m not too into the alternate versions unless they remind me of something else.

As far as the show itself went, they developed the characters in new ways that stayed mostly faithful to the G1 show, and even made room for the Maximal/Predacon conflict from Beast Wars, I think. That’s really the thing that does the show for me – it reminds me of Beast Wars. Once I’m done unpacking my toys, I’ll talk about those figures. But if you’ve got a fondness for season 1 of the G1 show – give Prime a chance – then let’s get a bucket of wings and a copy of the new movie, Predacons Rising.

 


I’m too stoked.

Here’s a day for you :)

  • 09.20.13
  • Dale
  • · Blog · Fatherhood · Gigs and Gigging · Musings · Random Thoughts

So I’m supposed to be writing my bio right now. And looking up my upcoming show dates. Instead I’m writing this for you, and hanging out with our Aiden and Abby, while Nikki works on some design ideas for Northwest Arts Connection. She has deadlines, and all I really have to worry about is finding a 14-hour energy drink so I can play Magic: the Gathering tonight. More on that in a minute, but for now, here’s Abby:

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There’s at least one Dale Tippett Jr feat Tin Lolita show coming up – I’ll let you know details when I know. Something Beautiful will need to get back to work, we have one in November that I need to start thinking about… That’s of course, alongside a TON of solo work, and studio sessions for Angel Anatomy.

Know what’s kind of fun? Putting links into blog posts.

So there. I’ve been productive today, right? Right??

Meatstravaganza and Show-teaser-palooza!

  • 05.31.13
  • Dale
  • · Blog · Musings · Random Thoughts

So this week was a bit of a wash – HOWEVER, I DID book a slot at the NAC tent for BBQ Fest with Tin Lolita – so that’s a good thing, right? ALSO, I’m waiting on a call back from Ribfest – I booked a wedding ceremony for that weekend already, so we’ll see how that goes. exciting!

In the meantime, we had the 11th annual Meatmorial Day Meatstravaganza! Big fun, tons of food, friends and drinkin! Best moment:

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Otherwise, I been working on getting myself back in gear for hitting the gym on the regular and doing LOTS of these:

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So stay tuned – I’ll have em videos up in no time. Getting the graphical elements together and picking up my new bottle of energy supplements to get my gumption up! See you soon, you guys!

 

Not a Photoshop Tutorial

  • 05.07.13
  • Dale
  • · Blog · Dale Tippett, Jr. · Musings · Random Thoughts

So I’m always teasing Nikki about how serious she takes everything… Maybe I’m being an ass about it, but I don’t mean to be, sometimes things are just funny to me. Everybody’s got their quirks.

Anyhow, we were out with the kids for breakfast one morning. Addi was coloring, and Nikki was holding her iPhone aloft and trying to get a good pic – as is her custom. She looked super dramatic and focused, so I snapped one of her – as is mine. Took it home and while she busied herself with some design work, I cranked a few of my own out. Hope you like em!

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