A fun Saturday!

Headed out this morning for a Nashville trip with Kevin. He had a change of plans last night when Stumblin' Stacey ended up having to head to Birmingham today instead of "doing things around the house"... which means sleeping. ;-)

Things were moving along swimmingly until we ran into some serious traffic just south of Franklin. There was some paving work going on and instead of keeping a decent speed, everyone was checking out how pretty the cones were and how big the paving machinery was. Good grief thats frustrating. Got a little nauseous from the fancy clutch-work of Special K but recovered when we were able to get up to speed again. First stop was Joe's Crab Shack for some eats. As usual, we took too early of an exit off of the interstate. Note to self, EXIT ON MOORE'S LANE next time. I had a plate of grilled Grouper and a skewer of grilled shrimp while Kev had a 33 shrimp platter. Now stuffed and with emptied bladders, we continued on. Next stop Fork's Drum Closet. Tried out some smaller hi-hats as well as a heavier ride cymbal. Just shopping though since I already went over-budget on the stuff I got yesterday. I did end up picking up a set of thicker heads for my main kit at home. Ended up going with some Remo Smooth White Emperors. K picked up a shaker.

Strolled next door to Corner music and looked at more stuff. K showed me the Vox amps he was interested in. Cool stuff. He also picked up some accessories - most importantly a Planet Waves cable I mentioned a while back. It will allow him to plug and unplug his guitar cable without the ***POP*** going through the PA system. Also looked at the JBL subwoofer from the same series as the main speakers we have. It was a little larger than what I expected, but that's a good thing.

Headed north to Sam Ash. They had a lot of stuff, but nothing I was particularly interested in. There was a hottie working there setting up a keyboard (sorry Kyle, no picture...). That was about the only excitement. After that we headed back to Decatur.

Ate Jim & Nick's chicken fingers with the Burn's then finally got home. Go the new heads on and sounding good. They'll go out of tune shortly since they're new and getting settled on the shells but I can already tell I like the deeper, warmer sound of them. Going to play a game or two on the PC then call it a night.