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Mon 10 Oct 05 @ 10:35 pm

Okay, first blog, EVER!

My long standing handle in the computer industry has been PCGUMSHOE, hense my community name. I have a website reserved in that name as well. The name stems from what I spend most of my time doing, sluething around in computers, including the internet.

People have accused me of being a hacker, and I'm sure hackers would take MUCH offense to that. Since I've been working on computers since 1986, I have some background and knowledge. If a problem crops up, I try my hardest to find the solution.

My title isn't far off... I'm legally disabled because, well, I'm nuts! Some would call it a gift, but I'd like for ONE WEEK to go and have 7 nights of restful sleep, with 8 hours of sleep, and 16 hours of wake.

Because I'm disabled, I've had to find ways of "supplementing" my income. I couldn't hold down a 40 hour a week job in the "traditional" sense. To many distractions.

I'd say the first time I ever DJ'ed was in 1990 in a very small town called Parker, Arizona. I had NEVER DJ'ed before then and really hadn't thought about it. There was a bar/restaraunt there and they needed a dj. I wasn't yet 21, but I told them I was. I can remember how sad it was... I had NO IDEA what I was doing and the place was always dead. They just needed someone to keep the DEAD air away.

It was the end of the 80s and I had a late start... I remember saying to the audience (all 5 people) "Here's a request" well, it was from me... sad, really sad!

Time has marched on and in 1999 I found my calling, FIX KARAOKE! It sucks... most KJs are in the business for one of TWO things, BOOZE or EGO STROKING... I'm neither, but none of them hurt from time to time.

I'll eventually post some of my "guidelines" for karaoke that all karaoke hosts should, in my opinion, follow. If you don't, you are NOT giving your audience/clientele their fair shake.

I got turned on to Virtual DJ back in 1.9 and, admittedly, used a cracked version of it. Sorry, It wasn't YET what I wanted... It had some nice features and it was easy for me to use as a DJ program, but it wasn't yet there... so I had NO interest in owning it.

Then you added karaoke support and video, now I'm hooked. I bought my copy this summer. I haven't really used it that much on account of it didn't work to terribly well with my show system. I do, however, play with it at home and when it surpasses my expectations on a perfect system, it will see the inside of a club.

I now live in the NYC area, I moved here from St. Petersburg Florida, Used to live in Seattle and Arizona as I mentioned, but I'd call California (South) my home state.

I'm very opinionated. I don't like terrorists and I consider police and politcians terrorists... Also, anyone who perpetuates their BS... Amereica is NOT the best country in the world and as SOON as I find a better one with proper health care for the disabled, ME and my Partner are moving there. I have my eyes set on Germany. I speak the language and have loved the people.

Well, That's the first draft, I doubt anyone will view it, but maybe as I get a little more active in the community.

A.S.