If it's too loud....

Last night my boys and I headed over to my brother's for our first Rock Band and Pizza night since they have moved to the area. They have been here for a bit, but between them getting moved in and settled and J's flying schedule, this was the first time we were able to work out.

I brought my hard drive over with all my downloaded songs and we got J's xbox setup with rock band. Only to discover he was missing one of the guitar adapaters. He took off for best buy to grab a new one while the boys and I finished setting up. We quickly discovered that it didn't want to play any of the downloaded content without being able to log into xbox live since the HD was attached to a different console. As he didn't have his router/cable modem near his xbox, he couldn't hook it up as he didn't have the absurdly priced wireless adapter for the xbox.

So, over the course of about 90 minutes, we rewired half the stuff in his apartment to move his cable modem and router close enough to the xbox to plug it in with the cables he had. We had to reset the router and reconfigure the wireless security to get it all working finally. Got both his computers back online, ordered pizza and finally got the downloaded content working on his console.

My sister-in-law showed up with pizza and we watched Chris Angel's show while we ate. The boys liked it, but I think the guy is a prima donna who loves to see and hear himself and is overly impressed with his illusions. Anyway, we finish eating and we settle in for some RB finally.

During the first set we played early, we had the TV up a bit loud and his downstairs neighbor started banging on the floor, so after dinner we turned it way down as it was about 830pm and we put a couple of mats to cushion the bass pedal on the floor to make sure it wasn't stomping noise. We played through a new 4 song set and about 2 songs in, he was banging on the floor again. We turned it down a bit more so it was actually too quiet sitting 4 feet away from it and B was playing the drums as quietly as he could, missing notes in trying to play softly. Still.. neighbor was not happy.

We turned the stuff off and gave up, not wanting to cause problems with J's new neighbors so soon after they move in. Much to my surprise, when the xbox and tv were off.. what did I hear? The racetrack. Apparently there is a actual car racetrack not too far from their apartment and Sunday night is a race night for them. Even with the windows and doors closed, it sounded like a NASCAR event was being held in the parking lot outside. So WTF were they complaining about? They probably couldn't even hear the RB over that noise.. especially since they had their windows open I saw as I was leaving.

So to J's downstairs neighbors. Remove the large stick from your ass and realize that some noise from your neighbors is going to happen on occasion and stop banging on your ceiling like a bunch of babies. WAAAAHHHH.. I'm in an apartment and I can hear noise other than mine. Deal already asswipe. Its part of apartment living. If you don't like it.. go buy a house in the country with no one around for miles and then it will be as quiet as you want.

So .. after trips to the store, reconfiguration of the apartment wiring setup and almost 4 hours, we got in about half a dozen songs.. most interrupted by the guy below who could have at least had the decency to slam the ceiling in time with the drums or something if he wanted to participate. Next time, we are doing it at my place as my neighbors will all be in the garage next door smoking and drinking anyway and won't hear anything. :P