Work. Yay.

Headed off to band practice Wednesday after work. There was a big turnout! In addition to the folks on the schedule, Amber showed up as did Jeremy and Allison. We spent a good bit of time at the beginning trying to figure out why things sounded like crap. One big thing discovered was that my kick drum was "off" on the sound board. SIGH.... Once that was fixed, things began to improve. Still have to work on the stage volume though and the solution to that, while in the works, got delayed again.

Amber's got a set of pipes on her for sure. She just needs to get over whatever it is that keeps her from singing with us regularly and just do it! Wow. What a great voice. Turns out Allison was like the stealth bomber of singing. She grabbed a mic later in the evening and kicked out some notes as well. YA'LL QUIT SANDBAGGIN AND GET WITH THE PROGRAM! Heh!

Jeremy toted the congas and bongos on stage and mic'ed them up. The added sound from the hand drums gives a lot of depth to our sound. He was playing pretty hard last night so I imagine his hands are a bit sore today. Sure sounded good though.

Post-practice the usuals (Me, Kyle and The Burns) headed to Ruby's. Good food, good dessert, hot women. What? I weilded the "power of the baby" on what turned out to be a new mom at the next table. Kyle was present during all this but wasn't actively part of the dialog with the girl. Turns out her kid is 8 months old. Kyle did try his hand at fork-feeding the baby some of my dessert. I think he's gonna see if he can get one at Pet Depot.

Today, I had my most ambitious lunch at Edo's. I was by myself so I sat up at the bar and told Luis what I liked and then asked that he just whip something up. Whoa momma. I got 16 pieces of some of the best tasting stuff I've had in quite some time. It even LOOKED impressive. When he passed me the block it was on, people were looking over at it. "This isn't on the menu". It made what I usually got look pretty bland in comparison.

Work pretty much stunk but I made it through. Going to work on some things at home tonight and try to get to bed a little earlier than I have been. Lately I've been getting sleepy in the afternoons. That sucks when you're actually trying to accomplish stuff.