aaaaanyway...

now playing: eastmountainsouth, "too soon"


man, oh, man....

last time i started a blog entry was the monday after the grammies, and i made a cool little list of all the winners i wanted to congratulate, complete with links embedded in the html code, the whole nine yards...and my PC froze up before i could post it, rendering it extinct.

i was pissed.

pissed enough that i didn't feel much like saying anything from here for a couple of days.

ah, well....

anyway -

i missed work yesterday altogether - ended up in bed most of the day. got up and stumbled downstairs to the living room to find an email from my boss in my inbox, notifying me that i had all of 1/4 day of time left, and that if i was finding myself becoming "burned out" that i should think about cutting back on my work hours. problem with that is that the more i work, the more there is to do -- monday night, i actually took a nap before i came back in from jayda's basketball game, and could've easily worked straight though until dawn, but i began to fade in a big way a little before 2am.

we'll probably find occasion to sit down and discuss this at some point this week, but as much as i'd love to trim my hours, i don't see it having a positive effect on our workload at the moment.

had stone road rehearsal last night, during which darryl mentioned that this weekend will be our last show with quin, period - apparently quin had made some remarks to him when they'd bumped into each other recently to that effect, along with some of his reasons for coming to that conclusion - which kinda chafed my ass a bit, since i had a very long conversation with him after he'd announced his "leave of abscence" during which he made no mention of said reasons...so i'm both a little sad and considerably pissed off, i guess.

quin was our secret weapon - the one thing we had that none of the other bands who do what we do have. he gave us an edge, and allowed us to do songs that other bands couldn't touch. i'm gonna miss that - but, knowing what i know now, i wouldn't vote to take him back if he asked to rejoin.

this proves, yet again, that being in a band with someone is very much akin to being in a romantic relationship with someone...when things go south and someone opts out of the relationship, you may eventually get back together - but things never fully go back to the way they were before things took a turn for the worse.

ah, well.

aaaaaanyway...

i caught wind of another opportunity recently, and have emailed not once, but twice (actually once to both supplied email addresses) and have heard nothing yet - five days have now passed, and i would've thought that a band with a pretty regular gig schedule would have been a little more assertive in evaluating potential replacements, but this doesn't appear to be the case - i would've expected at least a "FUVM" notice by now...

ah, well.

aaaaaannnyyyway...