harriet...sweet harriet....
now playing: so i married an axe murderer
a classic, this one...it's the only reason i'm still awake.
as is the case with pretty much all weekends, my plans and the quantity of things that i'd wanted to get done was a little overzealous and ambitious in comparison to what i actually managed to get done...but i can't complain, overall. watched the red sox lose two games on national tv, yet manage to beat the yankees by a combined score of 24-3 in the games i didn't watch. i played a pair of gigs with my buddy charlie degenhart, one this past wednesday and one on sunday night - it's funny, with charlie...no matter whether i do the necessary brushing up at home or not, it always takes a gig to get everything back in order and hittin' on all eight cylinders. wednesday was shaky, but on sunday night, everything went exactly the way it should've. well, with one exception, anyway...there's a song i usually play on lap steel that i played on dobro instead, and instead of giving it the more homey feel that i'd imagined it would, it just kinda got lost in the mix. i plugged it into the same channel as the mandolin, going through a passac preamp that i use for mandolin and guitar, and it just sucked all the midrange right out of it. bad move on my part.
wendy's parents were in town for the weekend, and they not only came to the gig with us, but they went out to breakfast with us afterwards as well - they have some serious stamina. i was impressed.
jayda spent a big chunk of the weekend with her friend destiny, and dylan spent sunday night with his buddy derek - for having had them under my supervision for three days, i feel as though i've scarcely seen them at all.
tomorrow, i have to go back through my email and start answering some of the stuff that i've read but haven't responded to over the past couple of weeks - it's been piling up. training will resume day after tomorrow, so that'll be two more days of sitting in darkness, trying to stay awake....
...and now rose is hanging from the roof of the hotel, so the end of the movie is nigh. bedtime beckons.
a classic, this one...it's the only reason i'm still awake.
as is the case with pretty much all weekends, my plans and the quantity of things that i'd wanted to get done was a little overzealous and ambitious in comparison to what i actually managed to get done...but i can't complain, overall. watched the red sox lose two games on national tv, yet manage to beat the yankees by a combined score of 24-3 in the games i didn't watch. i played a pair of gigs with my buddy charlie degenhart, one this past wednesday and one on sunday night - it's funny, with charlie...no matter whether i do the necessary brushing up at home or not, it always takes a gig to get everything back in order and hittin' on all eight cylinders. wednesday was shaky, but on sunday night, everything went exactly the way it should've. well, with one exception, anyway...there's a song i usually play on lap steel that i played on dobro instead, and instead of giving it the more homey feel that i'd imagined it would, it just kinda got lost in the mix. i plugged it into the same channel as the mandolin, going through a passac preamp that i use for mandolin and guitar, and it just sucked all the midrange right out of it. bad move on my part.
wendy's parents were in town for the weekend, and they not only came to the gig with us, but they went out to breakfast with us afterwards as well - they have some serious stamina. i was impressed.
jayda spent a big chunk of the weekend with her friend destiny, and dylan spent sunday night with his buddy derek - for having had them under my supervision for three days, i feel as though i've scarcely seen them at all.
tomorrow, i have to go back through my email and start answering some of the stuff that i've read but haven't responded to over the past couple of weeks - it's been piling up. training will resume day after tomorrow, so that'll be two more days of sitting in darkness, trying to stay awake....
...and now rose is hanging from the roof of the hotel, so the end of the movie is nigh. bedtime beckons.
posted by tom at 23:48
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