Beautiful weather on a Sunday

Woke up to a terriffic morning. Sun was shining, birds chirping, my car covered in tree sap. Headed to the church after my morning hygine routine. Parked behind the church in the grass and realized that about a bushel of grass clippings sticks to your feet when you come in that way. I noticed that the area behind my drums looked like I was starting a mulch pile which is when I made the connection. Got all my stuff hooked up and jammed a for awhile while everyone got ready to warm up. The mic switch I did on my kick drum fixed my drum sound. It has some built-in EQ that gave my kick drum some ooomph. Turns out the ooomph was only in my IEM's. Kyle made the comment (he was sitting in the crowd today) "Holy crap, there's like no kick drum or bass guitar in the mix..." All he heard was vocals, snare and Kevin's guitar. We really need to work on getting that fixed especially since the kick drum drives the tempo. I shudder to think that in the room all you hear is attack and no resonance from my kick. If our system isn't reproducing it, I should take my shield down and let the acoustic sound of the drum do it's work. It's kind of frustrating since I'm completely mic'ed but the only person really enjoying the sound is me. Oh well, not my problem. I've done my part to present the signal from my electronics to the house gear. After that, it's someone else's ball. I think a solution is in the process though. Just hope it happens soon.

The music went well this morning. Only had some minor things happen. Evidently, Joel was looking at the wrong chord chart during one song and locked up a bit when he realized what he had done. I had a stick malfunction during Ancient of Days when my right stick got knocked out of my hand. No sweat though, kept everything else going and grabbed another one I had stashed. I have extra sticks in holders on both sides of me JUST for these types of things. Got it all back together just in time for a big fill in the song. Don't know if anyone really heard it though...

Dave did our next lesson on Moses. It was very good. Even learned about a new people... the Magiptians.

Afterwards, a crew of us went over to Logan's for lunch. Jeremy & Friends joined up with the usual suspects. Kyle was hoggin Kailyn again. Speaking of Kyle, he started making noises that sounded like an old glass-pack muffler from the 80's. Apparently, this is a noise supposedly produced by cajuns. Kev mentioned that Kyle was Cajun-Asian and named off some cuisine of this new culture... Kung Pau Catfish, Sweet & Sour (forgot this one).

Next stop - Publix. Ran around the store a bit with the Burns picking up groceries for the evening then I headed home for a much needed nap. Later, I headed to their place to grill out and have our devotional time. Eli, The Wes's, Brian & his attachments, Kyle and myself were in attendance. Had a great time together rolling hot dogs across the patio then putting them back on the grill... "whatever got on it will just burn off..." (this was Brian's comment - watch out if he's cooking). Jordan came over to corral all the larvae into one room so the rest of us could meet in peace more or less. Thanks Jo-Jo.

After our devotional time I headed on home to finish up some laundry. The weekend's already over. Sigh.