So it’s been two months since I last updated this thing. How did that happen? Al? Aren’t you supposed to be reminding me to write occasionally?
Ha! Just kidding. Sort of. I need somebody to blame, and you seemed like a good candidate.
At any rate, I now have to sit here and try to figure out what exactly I’ve been doing for the last two months. Oddly, there have been quite a few things going on. Maybe my biggest problem will be addressing them without typing about 20,000 words.
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| Boo sits by the fire on a chilly December evening |
I guess I could start with what I’m typing this on. Several months ago, my renter let me borrow one of his Mac Powerbooks – specifically, the one that had neither a battery nor a power supply. I took it with the idea of eventually trying to write some iPhone apps, and promptly forgot about it. Then, about a month ago, I went out and got the necessary things to actually turn it on, tweaked the software a bit, and have been using it fairly regularly for various things since then.
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| Stone Mountain Cemetery |
It’s an okay machine, but guess what: I still prefer using Windows. For all those mac-heads out there who continue to insist that their computer is the superior one, I’m sorry. You’re just wrong. And yes, I am a trained professional.
The brass band’s album was finally shipped to us on December 1st and we’ve actually had a pretty good number of sales so far. I think we need to sell about 600 of the things in order to break even on the project. Not sure of the exact numbers at this point, but I’d estimate that we’ve unloaded about half of that number in the last three weeks. If anybody who reads this wants a copy, go to GeorgiaBrassBand.com and you can buy one there for $15 (plus shipping).
In my next-to-last post (from October, I think), I mentioned that I played a gig at Perimeter Church with a quintet. During a break between the services in that gig, I got an email from my father, who informed me that he’d be out of town visiting a woman in Cleveland, OH, who he’d met at his 50th high school reunion.
I got another email about a week ago from him. He has now proposed to “the Cleveland chick,” she’s accepted, and I guess I’m going to become one of that sociological group known as “step children.”
I am so not riding in a pumpkin, Dad. And I don’t sweep fireplaces, either. Let’s get that straight right now.
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| This was one of the memorials in the infant section of Stone Mountain Cemetery. I think it’s bizarre. |
My football team, thanks largely to key injuries during the course of the season, had their first losing campaign since about 1994. They finished with a 5-6 record and the head coach, who was a classmate of mine, was basically forced to resign. Many of the visitors to my website were thrilled by this.
Many of the visitors to my website are dicks, say I.
Anyway, after about a two-week-long search, we have a new head coach. Ironically, he came in second for the job when it was given to the coach who just resigned, yet all of the people who were calling for the head of the old coach are simply thrilled at the prospect of the new one.
I expect the team to do very well next year – were it not for the injuries this year, they would have done very well, and only about 7 guys are graduating. After next year, however, we’ll find out what the new coach is all about. I wish him well.
I mentioned recently that I’d be off of the band’s board of directors as soon as an election was held. Well, we held the election about a month ago and I’m still not off of the board. One of the last things I was to have done as a director was to rubber-stamp the election of the new board. Unfortunately, major screw-ups were made with the election (some members were not aware that there was going to BE one, one of the listed candidates should not have been on the ballot, etc); and, as of now, the current board is still trying to determine whether or not to scrap the results and do it again.
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| Creepy, huh? |
I’ve voted against that idea, by the way. The new board, as elected, will do just fine. There’s no reason to screw around and vote again, particularly given that the guy who led me to resign has now seen the actual numbers and will be sure to tell all of his buddies exactly how to vote in order to seat the board that he wants.
I think that’s about enough for now. I will once again attempt to make more regular entries into this thing going forward. Call it a New Year’s resolution.
Or don’t.
TWD