Last week’s band practice was the second one I multitrack recorded. It sounded okay, but the performance was sub par. I played my Les Paul and used the Keeley overdrive pedal for the whole practice. Today I used my SG and my new Wren and Cuff fuzz box. I haven’t listened to the recording yet but I should be able to A/B the two to try and see which one I prefer. I’m thinking the D&M Drive is the better choice. We’ll see.

Last week Mike’s multi effects board crapped out on him. Today he hooked it back up and it was fine at first, but by the time we got rolling it was losing it again. He bypassed it and plugged his bass straight into his monstrous amp. The sound was wicked. It was just plain bad ass. I really hope I was able to get even some of that tone onto the recording.

Overall our practice was a little different than usual. Last week Kevin put together a set list for us to use for our 11/9 gig. Well, yesterday the 11/9 gig was canceled due to smoke damage at the bar. We knew there was a chance for this, but now it’s a reality. We started the night working off of the set list still. After a while though, we just started trying to learn 80’s songs by ear including sometimes not listening to the actual song. There were little snippets of some Sammy Hagar and some Dokken, and praise be to the holy trinity of Prog, there were a bunch of snippets of Rush. All hail, my brothers and sisters!

It was cool. Our audience came back for a while. I’m not sure how long they stayed though.

Now that practice is over, I’m multi-tasking. The Walking Dead is on, and so is Game Two of the American League Championship Series between the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox. We lost last night, but right now we have a 6-5 lead in the bottom of the sixth. It’s only game two, but we’re already in must win territory. David Price wasn’t great tonight, but he was good enough to leave with the lead. Win it now, Red Sox. Please!

It has been a few years since we’ve had a visitor of the slithery, reptilian variety. Tonight’s home invader was not a garter snake though. Google images has lead me to believe it was a milksnake. “Was” being the key word.

I’m sure that in a one-on-one, Mano-y-Mano situation, Patches could have kicked it’s ass, but I figured I’d help her out this time.

I’m in the right place, but I’m all alone. Maybe someone will show up by the time the meeting is scheduled to start. Six minutes to go.

Our house is insulationally challenged, but our new room is all set.

We had a band practice tonight. I played my Les Paul. My first born was getting a little jealous of the new kid so I took it out for a spin. It was also the first time I played the Les Paul through the new amp. I was pretty pleased. I recorded the whole thing again and on a quick rough mix listen it sounds pretty good. I used the Keeley D&M drive for all of my dirt tonight. Next time I’ll use the Wren and Cuff Super Russian, then I can listen back and compare. I think our playing was down a step, as we haven’t practiced much lately and it shows. I know my playing was off.

We still don’t know if our 11/9 gig is on or not. Hopefully we’ll hear in a couple of days.

The cat was annoyed that I planned on watching The Walking Dead on my iPad last night.  She wanted to sit on my lap, but there was a tablet computer in the way.

She got her revenge when the FiOS app stopped streaming AMC with about 20 minutes left in the 90 minute episode.

It’s Friday October 5, 2018.  It’s 20 minutes to seven in the morning and it’s 54 degrees out.  I. Hate. Winter.

It’s also my sister’s birthday.  Wish her a happy birthday.  It’s a milestone year for her.  I’m not going to say which milestone because I’m going to hit the same milestone in three years and I. Don’t. Wanna.  The only negative to her reaching big numbers is that I reach them next.  Yikes!

I had a stressful day at work yesterday.  Here’s hoping I have a less stressful day today.  Fingers crossed.

The Red Sox are in the playoffs and their division round opponent is the Yankees.  Game one is tonight.  The pitching matchup is Sale vs Happ.  We have the edge in this one, assuming Sale doesn’t have a Price-like aversion to post season pitching.  We’ll probably know by the end of the first inning.  This is the fourth time the Heroic Red Sox have met the evil Yankees in the post season.  The Yankees won the first two meetings, but we won the historic, life altering, super amazing series in 2004.  Here’s hoping we can win this one with slightly less drama.  Go Red Sox!  Game time is 7:32pm on TBS, which means the first pitch will probably be somewhere around 9:45pm.  I hate national coverage.  Oh well.

New closet, new electrical work, new shower stall! Progress, babie!