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Losers

At band practice yesterday Mike posed the question, which team will win the most games this year?  The Bruins or the Patriots.  The Pats play 16 games.  The B’s play 82.

After watching the Bruins lose their third game in a row to open the season, 6-3 to Tampa Bay, it certainly feels like the Patriots will have more wins.

The Bruins suck out loud.

Speed Leaf Peeping

Yesterday morning before dawn, Jen and I got in the car and headed North. The plan? To drive The Kancamagus Highway and do some leaf peeping, while still getting home by lunch time. We invented a new craze: Speed Leaf Peeping

The sun wasn’t cooperating, as it was a bit on the gloomy side, and we think we were a little past the peak of the fall colors, but it was still beautiful and definitely worth the trip. We only got out of the car once, so there aren’t many pictures.

The side story of the day was definitely the crows. There were tons of them and they were everywhere. For the Watch, right Ollie?
Leaf Peeping on the The Kancamagus Highway

Welcome to the White Mountains.
Leaf Peeping on the The Kancamagus Highway

Leaf Peeping on the The Kancamagus Highway

Can you spot the crow?
Leaf Peeping on the The Kancamagus Highway

Leaf Peeping on The Kancamagus Highway

Leaf Peeping on the The Kancamagus Highway

Two in a Row

Today was the first band practice after two weeks off. It was the second practice since I had my really scary pain filled practice. Fortunately, it was the second in a row that was mostly pain free. I had a little issue early on in my right hand, which is pretty unusual. My left hand, where most of the crippling pain happens, was okay. Whew!

Lots of issues though. I plugged in the MacBook and there was a ton of noise coming in on the left channel. I spent a couple of minutes trying to track it down and then just closed the laptop and went on with practice. Next week I’ll get some new cables and bring some compressed air and try and figure out whatever was wrong.

I also had a battery in a stomp box die. I decided to go with the quick fix here too and just plugged the guitar straight into the amp and bypassed the pedal board entirely. That lead to the silly problem. As I was plugging the cable into my guitar I threaded it through my strap, as you should. Unfortunately, the strap popped off and I didn’t re-thread the cable when I put it back on. Wouldn’t you know it, the very next song I stepped on the cable and popped it out of the guitar. Damn it! I plugged it back in, threading it through the strap again, and the strap popped off again. Argh! I literally screamed in frustration… while standing next to my microphone. hehe Woops!

The things we guitar players do, am I right?

Emotional

I think we need to put a stop to watching 9/11 documentaries and footage for a while. It’s making me really upset. Over the last couple of days we’ve watched hours of footage from NBC and CNN. People seemed to have had their VCRs running from before the first word and just kept them going. Then they put the tapes onto youtube. I think I’m done with reliving how awful it was. For a while at least.