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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 | | 4:44 pm |
Haven't updated in awhile. Remember a few weeks back where I said I punched a door and hurt my wrist pretty badly? Yeah, well, it still hurts a lot so I'm pretty certain something in there is broken. I have full use of all my fingers, but I cannot bend my wrist fully up or down without a lot of pain. I'm still rocking out on tamborine, tho. I'm a pro and am working through the pain! :) I haven't had the time and definitely don't have the money to get it fixed or looked at, but I need to do that eventually. Don't wanna end up with some permanent damage in there or anything. And I'm not sure if I ever mentioned how our Cool Bus completely died on me, but it did. However, a great friend and fan of the band up and straight out GAVE us a full size GMC van. Amazing! It's in really good shape, too! Usually when somebody GIVES you a vehicle, it's on it's last legs and ready to die, but this thing is in awesome shape. I got it checked out and, outside of a few minor things like a small oil and transmission leak, it got a full clean bill of health. I've been driving it around the last few days, and it drives really smoothly and I see no real problems with it at all. There are a few minor things like the radio doesn't work and there's some internal electrical things and the backup lights don't work, but nothing that will affect the overall performance or reliability of the vehicle, and that's all that really matters. | | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | | 12:13 pm |
Anybody know where to get a cheap, small, enclosed trailer? We need one to haul our band equipment around now that we don't have the Cool Bus, but the smallest I'm able to find is 4x6 at a price of around $1500. All we'll be hauling is drums, amps, and maybe PA speakers from time to time, so I don't need 6 feet of space, and $1500 is way more than I want to spend. Ideas? | | Friday, June 26th, 2009 | | 1:24 pm |
| | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | | 11:07 am |
You should go to this  | | Friday, June 19th, 2009 | | 1:44 pm |
| | Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | | 11:35 am |
Bad couple of days. Things keep piling up. When it rains it pours, right? Last week, I got upset and ended up punching a door. I'm an idiot, I know. Anyway, when I did so, I'm pretty sure my thumb was tucked under my fingers and that ended up doing some pretty bad damage to my wrist tendon near my thumb. I can move all my fingers and move my thumb fine and I have limited movement in my wrist, so I don't think it's broken. But when I move my wrist from side to side, it fucken hurts. And it hurts just sitting there doing nothing, like now. A lot. It's either a severe sprain or a minor hairline fracture. And I don't have the money to get it looked at. Which brings me to my next point. We have our tour planned for August. The bus has had problems with the brakes for a long time. Basically, it hasn't actually HAD brakes for months. I got my tax return and figured I could use that to get the bus fixed, so I took it in. I get an estimate of $2200 to fix what needs to be fixed - brakes, shocks, exhaust. I skip the exhaust work and just do the brakes and shocks, but that still comes to $1500. Way more than I was ready to pay, but it had to be done. On top of that, my car has been overheating so THAT needed to be fixed too. I took that to a mechanic and had to drive the bus for a day while the car was being fixed. While driving the bus, I start hearing a slight clicking noise coming from the engine. I think maybe it needs oil because it is low and it's been awhile since I got an oil change. I put a quart of oil in and keep going. The clicking gets louder and worse and gets to the point where I lose horse power and the bus will not accelerate. This seems to be a major engine issue, right after I dumped $1500 in to it for brakes and shocks. And the exhaust still needs to be fixed, too. The "good news" is that my car "only" cost $300 to get fixed and that's now running fine. But now I have a couple thousand dollars that needs to be put in to the bus to get it back in running shape, and I just don't have that money. The Cool Bus may be dead. And on top of it all, I have a broken wrist that I need to get fixed as well, which also will likely be a huge medical expense. Money is dumb. So is work. Can I run far far away somewhere and never be heard from again? | | Friday, May 29th, 2009 | | 12:53 pm |
| | Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | | 12:31 pm |
Sweet Relief
Really excited about this weekend. Finally get a chance to be away for a few days and relax. We're heading to Cincinnati tonight to play a show with the fantabulous Buckra. It's their lead singer's "bachelor party" tonight, and he specifically requested US to go play this show with them. That's so awesome to me. I love this band and those guys so much, and it's awesome to know they like us just as much. Anyway, it's his bachelor party show, so it should be packed and be a hell of a time. Then, after the show, the rest of the band will be heading back home tomorrow while me and Heather stay down there the whole weekend. There's a big food and music festival happening all weekend in Cincinnati - Taste of Cincinnati - and that looks like it will be really fun. It's free, there's tons of bands, and tons of food vendors selling cheap food. That's a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon, if you ask me. On Sunday is Dylan's wedding, and we're going to be crashing the reception. We weren't officially invited, but they know we'll be there and we are welcome, so it's not exactly "crashing" it. That will be a good time, too. It will be really really nice to get away from Saginaw and from the band and just spend a few days with my girl. I desperately need this weekend and hope it's going to be as fun as I think it will be | | Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | | 11:07 am |
Pics
Did another band photo shoot this past Sunday with my talented lady behind the lens. We stumbled across this awesome burned out old building on the other side of town and it was perfect and we got some great shots. Check 'em out | | Friday, May 15th, 2009 | | 10:17 am |
We're in the midst of a triple shot of shows. Played the first one last night at Rubble's in Mt. Pleasant, tonight we're at White's in Saginaw, then we hit up The Ritz in Detroit tomorrow. Unfortunately, I have to work today, so after getting home at 3am last night/this morning after the show, I had to drag my butt up and come to work. Then, after working all day, I gotta pack up all our sound equipment and head up to White's for the show there. Fortunately, I can sleep in tomorrow and rest up. | | Thursday, May 7th, 2009 | | 12:26 pm |
| | Monday, May 4th, 2009 | | 6:35 pm |
We find out tonight if we're on the Warped Tour again this year or not. Keep your fingers crossed for us! | | Friday, May 1st, 2009 | | 5:36 pm |
Really feeling burned out lately. Between work and the band, I'm spreading myself pretty thin. I've been working on two big multi-band "festival" type shows as well as booking our East Coast tour this summer, on top of all the other shows I've been trying to get booked for us. And work has been a bitch lately. Just really busy and stressful. I need a vacation away from work AND the band. Luckily, I have a bit of time to myself coming up. Memorial Day Weekend will be a nice getaway. The band is playing in Cincinnati on Friday, May 22, but then they'll all be heading back home while I say down in Cincy for the whole weekend. Dylan, lead singer for Buckra, is getting married that Sunday, so I'm sticking around for that. Apparently, Saturday the 23rd, there's going to be a big downtown music festival going on, so I'll have that to do on Saturday, and then the wedding on Sunday. Lots of fun. Plus, just found out that we don't have to come to work on Monday/Memorial Day, so I don't have to take that day off of work now. Then, after that, there's sporadic days/weekends where there band isn't playing that I've got other things going on, like going to some Tiger games, heading back down to Cincy for a concert, going camping, etc. It will be a fun/busy summer. | | Friday, April 24th, 2009 | | 12:15 pm |
Busy Busy Busy
Sat down and figured out my schedule for the next few weeks, and I don't have one fully free weekend from now until the middle of August. Between BC shows, family get togethers, and just my own planned road trips/mini-vacations, I'm booked solid every single weekend until August 14/15. There's a stray free Friday night thrown in every once in a while, but there's always something happening at some point every weekend. ( For my own reference so I have it written down someplace, here's my Spring/Summer schedule ) | | Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 | | 2:04 pm |
Checked my last update and see that I haven't updated since I posted about how sick I was. I'm better now. Thanks ;) Not much to report on now, though. The lady is practically moved in to my place. We're working on finding room for her stuff and getting everything organized. She's only at the house 3-4 days a week for now, so it's working out decently. She's filed for unemployment since she was screwed over at her last job. Hopefully that comes through, because it will be hard for her to find a job right now since she has to head down state for half the week to help tend to her Aunt. The little bit of extra money will definitely help her out. We're pretty sure her wrist is broken, but with no income and no insurance, she will not get it looked at. I bought her a $15 wrist brace from Meijer that she's been wearing to help keep it sturdy and she's been wearing that. It is getting better, slightly. She can actually move and use her fingers now, but I still think it's broken and not just a bad sprain. I'm trying to get her to get it looked at, but she won't since she can't afford it and doesn't want to go more in debt. We've had shows the last three weekends in a row. We don't have one this weekend, and that's kind of nice, actually. Don't have any real plans, either. Maybe some Spring Cleaning or something. Or maybe......nothing. Just nothing. That'd be nice, too. I got a pretty busy summer coming up with the band and other family events and the like. Should be a fun one. I'm looking forward to it. | | Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | | 6:16 pm |
I. Feel. Horrid I'm pretty sure I have strep throat. My throat hurts when I swallow and talk, though honestly not TOO badly. But I feel horrible all over. My skin is so sensitive. You know how your skin gets all "chilled" and sensitive when you get goosebumps? That's what it feels like ALL THE TIME. My head doesn't feel right. Feels cloudy. It's hard to move because my skin hurts. And we have a show to play tomorrow. This came out of nowhere and hit me yesterday afternoon around 4pm. I went and got some Nyquil after work and downed close to half the bottle last night and was out at 9pm until this morning. I woke up 3-4 times through the night and was covered in sweat, but other than that, I slept 12 hours straight. I hope to do the same tonight. Gotta get rid of this. Too much stuff to do this weekend. Along with the show tomorrow night, we were hoping to take some band pics and some other pics for our live album that's coming out. On Sunday I was planning on heading up to Elk Rapids with the lady to pick up a lot of her stuff that was left there and then I was hoping to have a few people over to watch WrestleMania with me Sunday night. I think I'm going to call in to work on Monday no matter how I feel. I didn't call in today and I should've, so it's make up time. If I came to work when sick, I should be able to get a day off when I'm not. But something tells me I won't be completely rid of this come Monday. I sure hope so, though, cuz this sucks | | Monday, March 30th, 2009 | | 5:34 pm |
| | Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | | 12:24 pm |
In The News...
So, we're in the Saginaw News today. Cover story on in the Living section. Not the best article ever, pretty "fluffy", a few misquotes, but whatever. It's cool. Nice big color photo of us on the front page, and it plugs all our upcoming local shows. Neat EDIT: Here's a link to the article online | | Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | | 9:07 pm |
Anybody have any connections with venues or other bands in the Cleveland area that might be able to help us out with a show out there? | | Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | | 11:29 am |
Work has been horrible lately. Just very stressful. They've updated the system we use for tracking and documenting our work, and it's just....not good. It's supposed to streamline everything in to one program - whereas before we had 3 different systems to use - but this new system just doesn't work well for what I do. I make outbound calls to customers after they've contacted us looking for help. This new system is good for tracking the work after we set up the job with the customer, but it is not good at all for scheduling and making and documenting calls. Because of this, my work load has increased and I'm not able to be as efficient as I once was. Before if I came in and saw that 25 calls needed to be made, that was simple, an easy day. Now, I almost can't get through those calls, and that's with working constantly. 25 calls should not take 8 hours to make! But with going through this new system and doing all the documentation, and finding things that other reps have done wrong and cleaning up after them, and so on, it takes way too long. I'm sure it will become easier as everybody, including myself, learns the new system, but for now it sucks and it sucks hard. And that's my anti-work rant for the day. Hope you're all doing well. |
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