Whew!

It's been a busy week for me for sure. The first part of the week was spent doing the Riverfest thing, the mid-part was getting my parents packed up and back to the Philippines and the latter part was wrapping things up at the office and going to Big Spring Jam.

Got some more pics from Riverfest thanks to Lesa. She did a really good job snapping some up close photos that some of the lesser digital cameras couldn't capture well. She's got one of the Canon digital SLR's with some nice lenses. Big thanks to her. On the flipside, it's got me thinking about a digital SLR now. Cheet.

After getting all the last minute arrangements done, my folks left Wednesday morning for the long trip across the ocean. I talked with them later and found that the trip went well... no problems whatsoever. Dad did have to get used to traveling with technology though as his laptop and digital camera were scrutinized at every security checkpoint. "That's just part of it" I told him. Very glad they made it home safely. With them gone, I got going getting my place back in order again. Been cleaning, dusting, rearranging, etc. to get things back to the way I like them. Ahhhh... it's nice to have the peace and quiet of being alone in the house again. I highly recommend it.

Work went well this week. No complaints there at all. Friday was good also. After a longer than I expected meeting in the morning, me and Joel headed over to Larry's in Huntsville to do some shooting at the indoor range. I brought along my .45 and my 9mm. Joel brought his .357 magnum. We were both very pleased with our shooting. I was especially happy with my 9mm shooting. I still have to work with my .45 to get more accuracy with it. Either way, I won't have any problems hitting a target in self-defense situation with either weapon since those typically happen at short range. The range master had us try out a sweet .22 rig he had setup with a scope and a bi-pod. It was awesome! At 25 yards, I could put 5 shots into about a 1/4" group. I'm going to have to look into that. It's a lot of fun, cheap (.22 ammo, what else?) and easy on you... no recoil, low noise, etc.

I was tired the rest of the day (had a big lunch you see) but had committed to go to Big Spring Jam with Lesa and Lynn. One nice thing is that we had been provided with tickets for free and also armbands giving us access to the VIP tent where there was food and drink free of charge! Food was excellent... they had no Corona but I made do with some Miller Lite. It wasn't too bad after all.

They were good sports and went with me to check out the band "Breaking Benjamin". I had heard OF them, but I wasn't familiar with their music. Turned out to be a bit heavy, which was okay, but I knew it was a LOT heavier than what Lesa and Lynn were used to. I checked out a couple of songs then we headed on. One thing I LOVED was how the drums sounded through the PA. We have GOT to get some subs. Holy crap it was nice.

Met up with some of our clients who later joined us at the tent I mentioned earlier. Nice folks for sure. Saw some other friends there as well which was nice. Checked out part of the George Clinton set. He came out in... a diaper. I'm sorry, I don't care how successful you think you might be in the music biz, you can't pull off coming out in a diaper.

Headed back to D-town after that. Lesa wanted to head over to the Brick but by this time I was pretty tired and just wanted to get home. Got in around midnight and crashed.