Road Trippin'

Well, I promised an entry after I got my internet connection back. Unfortunately, the details on my recent projects will have to wait until next week, when I get back from my road trip. Amazingly, I got about everything I wanted done, and had a bunch of fun outside of that to boot.

I'm in Chicago now at the Casa de Steve, just finished band practice (sans Ben, our singer) and ate some late-night Popeye's. In another 4 hours or so, I'll need to find my way to O'Hare - still not sure exactly how I'm accomplishing that yet. Then I'm off to rendezvous with Jet in PHX to begin (my portion anyway) of the road trip!

I'll be meeting up with (assuming all goes well) Monique, Terri, Bob H., and Gene - each in their respective cities along the way. I'm fairly psyched about this.

Oh yeah, I got a call from my sis during my drive up to Chi-town and had a good chat. Amongst other things, apparently my parents want me to come out during August for my sister's Korean wedding (for those who don't know, she got married last month in San Francisco - ok, technically in Marin County)... and they'll pay for it! Sweet. Maybe I'll just have to schedule some extended stopovers in Seattle and/or the Bay =).

I tried doing some 4 track digital recording (with an old desktop - I know, crazy eh?) today at practice. I had been recording practices with my laptop (and just using primitive micing), but I wanted to try and get a decent recording this time with semi-isolated tracks. Anyway, didn't have a mixer so this didn't turn out so well. Evan (our bassist) is bringing a Mackie out to the next practice, so I'll see what I can manage next week. I even brought tons of adapters and splitters, in case I'd need to jury rig something. No matter though - I figured this try might not fly.

A quick shout-out to Alicia, who has been giving me great discourse lately - thanks sweets!

Finally, a heads up to you all that a move to MovableType is imminent (minus the Road Trip Time Rift of course) and hopefully, with that move I'll be able to incorporate a few design changes that I think will improve the site. Thanks to Mike K. as ever, for being the shepherd and blog fooking master. He's my saving grace, and the only reason this blog exists.

That's it for now, perhaps I should get some sleep before I have to get my ass out to ORD...