Well, it was good, but short, as I had to work Saturday. But Friday was a fun day; we had a practice baseball game in the evening and with both kids on the same team, things seem a little less hectic. My wife and I also did lunch, just the two of us (boy, how unusual is THAT!?!) at a restaurant called P.F. Chang's. Very good Chinese cuisine.

Saturday was the aforementioned work, but it was only five hours.

So on Sunday, we did a jam session. There were five of us to start out. But the drummer (an old neighbor) could only stay for 2 hours, so then it was pared down to four of us.
(We had a drummer lined up, but I didn't check my email on either Wednesday or Thursday and didn't realize that the guy had canceled out...so I scrambled calling every drummer I knew, and just when I thought none of them would make it, Bill called and said he could play for a couple of hours.

So we had 3 guys named Bill (bass, lead guitar and drums), a Jim (a buddy of mine that I haven't really spent any time with for about 15 years, now an attorney in Chicago), and me. Jim can sing pretty well, though he didn't do a whole lot of singing at this little shindig. I, otoh, pretty much blew out my voice singing some songs that were way out of my range. Beers were going down pretty easily, but I spread them out over a lot of hours, so all in all, today I feel pretty good! It was a lot of fun, if a bit sloppier than our usual sessions.

Factor in that I got a new mixer for Christmas and finally incorporated it into the sound setup, (I mix my four keyboards, my acoustic guitar and now my electric guitar's mic-ed amp through a separate mixer before feeding them into the main sound system) and it appears to be changing the sound of everything. I don't know why. It's probably just the setup I've got going on. And I'm used to hearing things the way they were with the old line mixer, which has a couple channels dying slow deaths.

In any case, I think I just need to tweak the controls then tweak them a bit more, or maybe get someone else to help me tweak them.

Lastly, I read an excellent book, Harlan Coben's latest novel titled LONG LOST. I couldn't put it down. The plot, involving international terrorism, might be a little far fetched, but then again...do we know what lengths terrorists will go to in order to accomplish their "goals"? How far "out there" would they get? How creative are they? (Hopefully not as creative as Mr. Coben...) Good plot, great pacing, and fun, interesting characters (sports agent Myron Bolitar and his buddy Win Lockwood III, to name two) made this one a winner.

Back to the grind...