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Two videos from Oktoberfest in Aggieville

Aaron — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:17:33 +0000

These links are also available on the videos page. I’ll have some songs up on the downloads page up soon.

Singularity, live, Last Chance Saloon, Manhattan, Kansas, 18 October 2008
Click here to view the embedded video.

Getting Over You Again, live, Last Chance Saloon, Manhattan, Kansas, 18 October 2008
Click here to view the embedded video.

Tubby’s tonight, Palin as President

Aaron — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:24:33 +0000

Maddy and I are playing at Tubby’s in Aggieville tonight at 6 p.m. Come out and get some food and have a good time with us (read: keep us company).

If you can’t make it, here’s a nugget for you:

http://www.palinaspresident.us

New shows section

Aaron — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:41:17 +0000

Aaron Traffas, Lucas Maddy and Chris Goering

We had a great show at Bobby T’s on Friday. Thanks so much to everyone who tuned in to the broadcast. Thanks to Ty and Rob, our friends from San Francisco, who called in with credit cards to buy us rounds of drinks from several states away.

Thus ends the three-day weekend of relaxation. Today was the best day by far. Erica ate with us this morning and when I dropped her off she ended up with both of my cell phones. There is an unexplainable sense of peace that accompanies the knowledge that nobody can contact you.

It’s weird having Erica here and Megan gone. My sisters are quite similar and yet quite different. I’m excited to get to know her as I got to know Megan.

I’m watching Chelsea Lately with Lucas and Diane and plugging away at finishing the new shows section of the website. My mother was in town all day Saturday and never contacted me because she thought I was in Omaha because that’s what my website said. We had booked a show there and when I Twittered regarding its cancellation I never got around to updating the convoluted event calendar that was nailed on top of Wordpress. That’s all fixed now, as the new shows section now includes all shows, both upcoming and past - all the way back to the first launch of the site when Trevor Burgess and I were playing at Fats.

I’m typing away on my Apple slim aluminum keyboard. It’s the one I poured nearly a full cup of coffee into a couple weeks ago. I dried it, wet it, dried it again and when it wouldn’t work I’d left it for dead. A week passed and I tried it one more time and it’s been working well ever since. I guess I bought a pair to have a spare. With all the damn computers around here, I guess it will get plenty of use.

I’m selling my Cloudbook at Thursday’s auction. I couldn’t ever get the wireless to work as well as I wanted, though it seems I’m not the only one. The graphics always seemed weak, though VIA just released an open source driver for it.

I’m currently rocking the ASUS EeePC 900. It’s quite possibly the finest piece of equipment on which I’ve ever laid my hands. I turned it on long enough to hit restart on the Knoppix distribution of Linux so that I could install Ubuntu. I had good luck with Ubuntu-eee as opposed to Eee-Ubuntu. Everything worked pretty much right away. I had to load a different kernel to get the microphone working so I could play with Skype with Diane.

I got Diane an Acer Aspire One as an early birthday present. It’s slightly bigger than my Eee, but the difference in the keyboard size is pretty huge. It also runs Windows XP, which is pretty much a must for her iPod Touch. It was also crazy-cheap, weighing in at $349 at Best Buy.

It seems like John McCain’s Eskimo running mate’s daughter is knocked up. How fun.

Pre-recorded show from Bobby T’s

Aaron — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:23:51 +0000

Free TV Show from Ustream

Streaming live on aarontraffas.com

Aaron — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:34:20 +0000

We had a great show. I removed the video stream from the post now that it’s no longer active.

Twitter stalking

Aaron — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:42:31 +0000

So, in an effort to try to make Twitter yet even more useful, I added everyone in Manhattan to my “following” list. I found this link on one of their tweets. It’s a Photoshop thread and is quite good.

Anthony Lake

Aaron — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:43:24 +0000

What a time we had yesterday at the lake of Anthony! We gave away the ballance of the Republican shirts as they, like the song, have a hopefully limited lifespan of about 199 days.

Guse opened up with some face-melting balls-rock.

5 minutes later….

So I’m pounding away here at the house, getting ready for a long-awaited review of harvest 2008, the movie Wanted, and the Guse show in Manhattan, but I guess I get play mechanic instead. More later. I promise.

Power hop

Aaron — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:09:11 +0000

Looks like Jim’s going to play the show in Minneapolis with me tomorrow. We haven’t played a show together in years. It’s going to be a hoot, that’s what it’s going to be.

I finally fixed the tire on my dolly today. It’s the one that G and dad always gave me a hard time about. I over inflated the tire, actually. Lucas says it’s going to hop a lot now.

Minneapolis

Aaron — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:32:17 +0000

Looks like we’ll be playing a show in Minneapolis this weekend. Come drink with us.

Softball and graduation

Aaron — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:45:36 +0000

19-8 was the score in tonight’s softball game. It was a late game, but the first we played with a full compliment of girls. We were able to perform much better with the ability to field ten players instead of eight and not and to bat an entire lineup without taking an automatic out.

My house is full of Pampered Cheff things I either can’t pronounce or can’t understand a purpose. Megan is moving to St. Louis next weekend and my house became a waypoint for her…things.

After I help Megan move to St. Louis, I go to Pueblo, Col., then to Norton, Kan., then to San Francisco, Cal., before heading home to Sharon for Megan’s wedding. It’s going to be a wild couple of weeks.

Erica’s graduation was good, with the exception of the salutatorian and validictorian speeches. I saw Jesse Mease and Logan Jacobs. It’s good to see old friends.

I’ve been tagging a bunch of pictures on Facebook. Help out if you want.

Congratulations to Erica and Diane.