OVER?!?! Already?!?

Man, these weekends seem to just FLY by these days. Dinked around most of the day Saturday and got plenty of rest. I did go over to a friend's house to check out some gunsmithing projects he had going on. Also got a chance to check out this surplus military truck he picked up. That was pretty sweet. I'm gonna have to go for a ride in that sometime. It's HUGE, it's camouflage, and it's diesel. (Insert Tim Allen grunts here...)

Spent the evening keeping it on the down-low as I wanted to be sure I was completely over sinus-gate. Wasn't motivated to cook so I let SteakOut bring me something. Got a pleasant surprise when on my steak and shrimp order arrived with double the number of shrimp I was supposed to get! Dinner made me happy to say the least.

The F1 race was in Suzuka Japan this weekend. For the first time ever, a typhoon hosed up qualifying which is supposed to happen on Saturday. The schedule NORMALLY is practice on Friday, qualify on Saturday then race on Sunday. This weekend, they qualified and raced on the same day... only a few hours apart between sessions. Because of the time difference, I was able to watch the qualifying, then stayed up till 2:00am to watch as much as I could before I passed out. Ended up finishing up what I missed when they had the rebroadcast Sunday night. Only one more race to go for this year and that's in Brazil.

Church went well today. Plenty of visitors! Music went well for the most part. Let's just say this, I wasn't responsible for any mishaps. Heh. On a somewhat disappointing note, it was decided to again put the drum shield back up. As a result, the drums sound like they're in a can again. Oh well, it's a battle to take it down, it's an irritation to put it back up. Since I try to be a team player, I didn't raise too much of a stink. All I thought was "whatever". I give up.

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Ok, I guess it IS time for a rant. Everyone else has gotten one thing or another off their chest in their blog so it's my turn. You know, with all the equipment our band has, we should sound GREAT. We aren't playing on bargain basement, marked down, unclimed baggage, thrift store Salvation Army hand-me-downs mind you. We've got "the stuff" for sure. Here's what's lacking...

More channels on the sound board to accomodate all the mic inputs individually.
More aux channels to send more discreet IEM mixes to the band.
Subwoofer.
Amp and crossover for the sub.
And most importantly, consulting with someone that knows sound to set up and adjust the gear for our room.

Most of the big stuff is already taken care of. We're SO close to having all the pieces of the puzzle and have been for quite sometime. Of course there's no plan that I'm aware of to address these issues. The people/person that needs to stay on top of it should... I don't know. I'm just the drummer. Someone who's responsible to do something needs to make a plan and execute it or just admit, that "hey it sucks and it's gonna stay that way coz I'm not doing anything about it."
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I feel better now. There's more where that came from though. Just ask if you want another dose.

The chili get together was a huge success. BIG crowd there this evening. A big thanks to all who prepared food. It was delicious. Lot's of new folks there! It was encouraging to see all who made it out. Ended up playing No-limit hold'em poker with some of the fellas. Just with chips and not actual money for those of you that would get your drawers all wadded up over playing a card game at "church".

Looks like Kerry is gonna fill my drum throne next week as I go out of town. Cool. It's good to know that it'll be in capable hands. There's a whole new band playing next week so it should be interesting.

Time for bed.