So Far, So Good

I may have mentioned here, but I know I have mentioned elsewhere, that this week is going to be totally insane. I have lots of open projects for Basic Web Design & Graphics, and we are also doing a Christmas Concert Blitz this week! Concerts every night from Tues-Friday, and then two on Saturday! Fun!

Last night we sang at Fairport Village Coffee. The first time we sang there was Christmas of maybe 1999? Could it be?? Whoa. Seems like so long ago. There were only a few people there when we got started, but several more came throughout the night, including Jen’s brother! We hardly ever get to see him and his family, so that was great. It was a nice relaxed visit (we got to chat in between songs, sets, and even during a song or two! Ha!) and definitely a highlight of the evening. We also got to chat with several other folks about anything from Apple computers to life with God and his church.

And, they liked the music, to boot. πŸ™‚

Tonight was much of the same. Though, tonight the people working there didn’t know we were coming! Ha! That’s always funny. πŸ™‚ We sang at Earthtones Coffee House in Webster tonight. Another place we have played quite often, and for a long time. Jen’s mom came over this afternoon and stayed with the kids, so even though we were “working”, with the 40 minute drive and set up time and the two hours of singing… it’s a nice evening with my wife. We also stopped for a late-night snack at McDonald’s on our way home. Quite nice.

This time, no one came that we knew, but that allowed for some nice conversations with several people who were there. The music was well received again (one lady, whose favorite song is O Holy Night, had many compliments for Jen’s rendition of the Christmas classic! That was awesome!) and we even sold several CDs and a book! Quite nice.

One of the workers tonight came over to the table after we had been singing a while, and was checking out my There’s The Steeple… Here’s The Church book. When we finished the song, she asked a question about it, and we ended up talking at length (actually, throughout the rest of the night, too) about church, and God, and life lived with him. Neato! Then, at the end of the night, we met another musician from the area and got to chat with him a bit about music and gigging and all. It was a great night, I’d say.

So, I actually started this with the intention of writing it during the second half of Superman Returns, which I started last night… but… that wasn’t happening. πŸ™‚ The movie’s over now, so I can finish this.

I think I just did.

Where Has The Time Gone?

This has been a stange week.

It started (as every fall weekend begins) with a Bills game on Sunday, followed by some show prep, followed by the recording the Buffalo Bills Review, followed by (a little later) a few hours of editing and updating websites. My Sundays are usually 9am or so to 5am or so. Yikes.

So then I had scheduled a meeting to help a client with some nagging e-mail issues for Monday morning at 10:00am in Rochester. (Only time she could do it.) That meant I had to get up at 8:30 at the latest. I did. I was very confused when the alarm sounded. πŸ™‚ I made it there at a reasonable time, and continued with a normal Monday from then on.

By the time Monday night rolled around, I decided to watch the first of the three X-Men movies … starting at Midnight. Yes folks, working on just under four hours of sleep, I popped in a movie just after midnight. Fascinating. But, the good thing is, I liked the movie, so I made it through all but 30 minutes of that. I awoke at 4am to the main menu screen playing the sound effect over and over again. That was fun.

Tuesday began at around 8:37 when I woke up and, staring at the clock, remembered that Ian has a piano lesson at 9:00am on Tuesdays. He was still sleeping. We all were. So, Jen got up and took him to his final 9am lesson. πŸ™‚ (We had to change that…)

By this point, after a full weekend, a full week prior (it was Alex’s birthday week!) and now these two crazy days, I felt like it was already the middle of NEXT WEEK. Certainly not just Tuesday!. It was a full day in the office Tuesday, working on some stuff for a bunch of new clients, as well as continued maintainence for current clients… lots of fun.

Oh! Add to this that I have been posting a ton of stuff this week to the Bills website. Lots of Bills fans are not so happy with the Bills loss at Chicago, so I have been doing my civil duty as a Bills fan with a blog on the Bills website, and performing some fairly intense damage control. Stop by and check it out if you like.

Probably the coolest part was when I decided to start watching X2 last night at about 11:45. Especially knowing that the movie was roughly two hours, AND that I play basketball at 8am on Wednesdays. Yeah. That was cool. πŸ™‚

So, after a 7:30am wake up this morning (following probably a 3:30am bedtime last night)… I’m a bit tired, and unfocused. You’re probably picking that up from the barrage (or, is it barage, like, garage?) of blog postings today on random topics of nothigness? πŸ™‚

I have one more movie to watch tonight… and no reason to awake before 9:30 tomorrow morning. So… perhaps I’ll get a little sleep starting tomorrow morning.

We’ll see.

I really just need to figure out a way to add about 6 or 7 more hours to each day. I could use about a 30 hour day, I’d say… πŸ™‚