When I am finished with other projects, I will revamp this site into a brettdriscoll.com landing site of sorts, with pictures, links, and general information.

Now for the good news……… I haven’t stopped blogging! Anyone who knows me, knows I love music, guitar, writing and recording. I have been working on recording an album for the past year now, and have loads of things I can talk about. SOOOO I started a blog at www.lowstring.com to discuss such topics! THIS IS NOT A PERSONAL BLOG, I repeat THIS IS NOT A PERSONAL BLOG…. so if you want to know about my weekend you will just have to send me an email lol. I just thought it might be interesting to chronical the making of an “album” and everything I learn along the way. The site will also feature reviews of products I have purchased (no I am not getting paid for them), as well as concert reviews.

So, feel free to check out the new site, drop me a line, or stick around here while this site is still up!

I have been so busy with moving, school, and just normal summer activities, that I really haven’t had time to write anything on the site. I figured I would let everyone know I am still alive and kicking, and come winter time will fire this bad boy back up. I really think I needed a break from “blogging” anyways, because it was becoming old.

Aaron and Gina’s wedding (the first of 5 for me this year) is this weekend, so I am sure I will have news and happenings to report from the wedding itself and the stag party (which is tonight!). It will be great to have all the guys hanging out together again, as we probably all haven’t really hung out together in years. I guess I’m getting to that age where everyone is getting married, so I have to expect the next couple of years to be busy!

Cru is doing fine, and has adapted to his new habitat rather easily. I figured now that he doesn’t, have another dog to play with he would be lonely, but it really just made him that much more annoying…… he doesn’t leave anyone alone, and won’t lie down for two seconds! Oh well what are you going to do….

That is it for me; I will try not to take so long next time in between updates!

Go to the Cruiser project page for details and download! Thanks.

I already have new diggs lined up, and will be rooming with my good friend and musical co-hort Mr. Sweeney. No more apartment for this kid! We will have a little house, filled with guitars, recording equipment and empty Bud Light cans………. I can see it now! Cru will be coming with me, so don’t worry he will still be blogging from time to time.

So in closing if as of late it has seemed as though I have fallen off the edge of the blogosphere……don’t fret, I am still here my friends! I am just extremely busy at the moment, but don’t worry within the next month the dust should settle and the smoke should clear!

Is it me, or has this summer been ungodly hot in upstate NY? As I am writing this post it is 11:30 AM, and according to weather.com it is already 91 degrees and “feels like 106 Degrees F”. It was 82 degrees in my apartment when I left my this morning! Compare that to Orlando, Florida which is currently at 88 degrees….. or Los Angeles, California where it is 74 and feels like 74? What gives?

Another thing that has really been bothering me is this dude John Basedow………. you know the “Fitness made simple” guy? I would post a pic of him….. but I can’t stomach the thought of his photo on my site. He is a self-proclaimed “fitness celebrity”…….. how does one become a “fitness celebrity”? Can I call myself a “fitness celebrity”? or would that require working out? How bout I call myself the “unfitness celebrity”? I can here the jingle now…….”unfitness made simple….. unfitness made simple”. For $29.99 you can buy my DVD which features 8 full hours of me sitting on the couch watching re-runs of CSI… eating the occasional bag of SunChips, and Hint-o-Lime Tostitos. Ugh I can’t stand it……. my dog even cries when those commercials come on. I think John Basedow is really the devil and the reason it is so damn hot out lately…….. You know how there are those Chuck Norris sites, that say Chuck Norris can do anything? I think there should be a similar site for John Basedow except where we blame all the worlds problems on John Basedow……. That would be cool! Ok I’m done…

Sweens, Nick, Holls, and I played a gig two weekends ago proving that you can pull off an acoustic gig with little to no practice lol. It was fun, but at the same time brought back a lot of memories of the fact that I hate going through the whole “setup” exercise just to play a handful of lame songs I don’t really like lol. All in all it was a good night though, and we have one more gig in Canandaigua August 5th. Hopefully after that show we can get back to recording full time. The album was kind of put on hold due to the fact that it is summer and everyone is busy, but also because we had a couple gigs, and needed to practice some. If I can get up to Rochester shortly, work on the CD will become easier and occur more often.

That is about it for me, but stay tuned! I shall know more hopefully in the next couple days as to what my future plans are! This weekend it is back to Sween’s pad to commence recording again, and I can’t wait!
later

Installation is still the same as before except now you will need to open up the “style.css” file in the cruiser directory and change this line:


@import "k2.css";


You will need to change this line to the K2 style sheet you are currently using….. depending on your specific set up it would be something like


@import "http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/k2/styles/yourstylesheet.css";


If you are flying the default K2 style sheet you can simply use this.


@import "http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/k2/style.css";


I have included the default K2 style sheet in this release of Cruiser so it will work right out of the box. If you do not wish to import your own K2 style sheet Cruiser will still work.

Now we want to add a link from wordpress to your new photo gallery; edit the “header.php” file located in your K2 theme directory. You are basically going to add the following code snipet to the existing unordered list K2 uses for navigation.

Add code above to existing header.php file to match below.

To see the finished product click here

This should get all the K2 users heading in the right direction. Obviously if you have a heavily modified K2 install this probably won’t work……. But if you know enough to mod K2 then you should be able to mess with the Cruiser style sheet to match your specific theme. For future releases I will try and keep the K2 structure or at least offer a K2 ready Cruiser package.

I am working on a new release for Cruiser which will hopefully have an operable search by name feature. Stay tuned for that!