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so since my last post many moons ago lots has happened… a few highlights…
i embarked on some semi-continent-spanning craziness… i flew cross-country to attend & participate in my dad’s 65th birthday… it was a hoot and i felt like a total rock star while doing it… just had a backpack and a guitar with me… took a red-eye flight out, got an early morning flight home, spent less than 24 hrs on the ground… and in between had a great visit… saw some cool sights, met a bunch of wonderful people, spent a portion of my time as a competitor in the most-intoxicated-feller contest (i think i may have won), and had the chance to play a few songs for folks… interestingly enough the last two items were going on concurrently… and even more interestingly the entire event was being videotaped… i’m told my performance was just lovely but i’m interested to see the evidence…
much sickness occurred within the family and was not enjoyed… colds… ear infections… with the amount of snot-slingin’ that occurs when a one year old and a three year old are sick i’m actually quite amazed that anyone in this house is ever healthy… our illness adventures included a bout of the 24-hour flu that the lovely and talented karen and i shared on a thursday afternoon/evening… i/we pretty much questioned if we were gonna expire as we went through lists of who we could ask to come watch the kids as we drove ourselves to the hospital… in the end we decided to just lay around moaning and whimpering fetal-like and let the kids watch entirely too much tv… that sucked…
not to be left out one of the family felines had all sorts of problems too… a few rather large vet bills later she seems to be on the mend…
three piece rock & roll adventures continue… i think the mighty spank has pretty much decided to not stress too much about the bass player auditions as steve has taken over those duties and is having a hoot… our sound’s a bit changed… and we’re all a tad challenged to make it all work in a sparser fashion… but it’s an adventure and so far a pretty fun one with some cool results… we’re goona try to play a gig as a three piece in june i reckon… maybe even try to sneak one in before that too… i’m looking forward to that…
i have done very little running… excuses abound… travel… illness… general overall busy-ness i guess… the mercer island half-marathon has been shelved… i think i’m gonna follow zman’s lead and shoot for the half-marathon in vancouver in may… then who knows???… maybe the full seattle marathon in the fall???… we shall see…
my xbox360 addiction has reached new levels… the kids are a good way to temper that… otherwise i think i’d just play the thing for hours at a time… tiger woods golf… kameo… pgr3… i’m hooked…
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