What's that noise?

Played the acoustic at L-5 tonight, sounded good enough through the PA system. Just jammed around a bit. I do need to play to the mp3s I do have to get the real songs down.

Taking a day out to relax, especially since I'm having an off week from chemo this go-around, is exactly what I need. In spite of that, I still awake in the morning with the same worries I've been having for a while now.

Last night there was a rehearsal scheduled, but only me and LT showed up. Since LT runs L-5, he did about the only thing he needed to: change a lock on one of the first floor rooms so a reggae band can move down there from their second story room, since they gig often. Only make sense; one less set of stairs to schelp gear.

Today I pretty much strummed and picked Blacky all afternoon, even brought one of my too many guitar instruction books out, but for some reason put it back on the shelf. Maybe I should bone-up on lead playing and scales usage.I dunno, have any ideas out there?

Fine, thank you. A tad busy, but that is to be expected with everything I gotta deal with.

Yesterday at the oncologist's office, Dr. "M" noted that one of the blood markers that measure the amount of cancer cells has been reduced to near-normal levels. Next week when I have more blood work done, a copy will be sent to Dr. "V" for her files.

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On Sunday was a small family get-together in which the youngest niece was officially baptized into the Roman Catholic church. St. Peter church is a very tiny place for a RC house of worship, considering that North Ridgeville is still primarily rural in nature; modern "suburbia" is slowly making inroads there as my brother's current (and soon to be ex) household is: a development of only less than a decade in age.

I can say this about my niece: she really loves being the center of attention. Maybe she'll go into acting in another18+ years...

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Save for a couple of discs I have to hand edit the listings and upload to Gracenote, my entire CD library has now been re-riped. Next I'll raid somebody's own collection for the stuff I had on file as well. Oh yeah, download what I have on FA as well.

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I finally got the pop-rivet gun, ended up having to go to the power fastener aisle of the blue hardware store to find the cheapest they had. K-Mart, Sears, and Autozone all failed me in my quest to find one.

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Lastly, last week Monday I visited L-5 again, only this time to check out things at a studio called Iron Lung. In a prior life, L-5 building was at one time a very small medical supply house, and happened to leave an iron lung on the top floor as part of what was left behind when things went flat there. For those too young to even remember of such things, an iron lung was used to respirate polio patients. The down side is that they would have to pretty much stay in the chamber for who knows how long. Getting back to what I was talking about, the studio makes the one LT has seem more like my meager setup in comparison. It was mostly vocal tracks that were done this time around by LT. He had to go through a few takes to get close to what he wanted, but someone down in one of the rehearsal rooms ruined the take by power-thumping a drum kit at the wrong time, in spite of the main control room in which the vox were being sung in being of a room-within-a-room construction. Before I left , SV arrived and setup his Roland keyboard to lay down some synth parts. I don't know how they went.

Whelp, off to L-5, hopefully the auditionee actually does show up for a change.

So much for a second day of retraining; had two "oops!" moments this time.
Will be at L-5 tonight to be assistant to the assistant engineer... or something like that.

Back from visiting Mr. Thompson at L-5. we and another dude made sure we were sufficently bored with each other's playing.