Weekend Wrapup

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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Friday - ran errands, saw this being parked across the street in front of my favorite neighbors house:

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Then while we were at dinner an even more decrepit pickup truck was parked in front of my house. I wasn't happy but I figured it was someones relative visiting for the weekend.

Saturday - went to work and while I was wrapping up got a call from my next door neightbor that the guy in the camper had gotten into some sort of fight with another neighbor and that something needed to be done. When I got home I found out that the guy in the camper was "renting" curb space and electricity from the white trash guy who lives across the street from us, who is losing his house in a few weeks anyway and that they had met in jail. All news to me. After a "neighbors summit" and a conversation with the guy across the street who is losing his houses mom (who lives two houses over) it was determined that if the camper was still there on Monday I'd be calling the police to deal with it. Nothing like having an ex-con living in a camper in front of your house. :facepalm:

Sunday - mowed the lawn, went to get a Christmas tree and by the time we were back the camper and the truck were both gone, so apparently someone got the message (via mommygram, I'm sure). Tonight we went to the tree lighting in the town center and dinner. I'm stuffed.
 
Friday - Went to the dentist. Taught make-up lessons. Came home and played Wii.

Saturday - Taught lessons, worked out, did laundry, finished Season Four of Dexter played Wii.

Sunday - Went house hunting, took short trip to grocery store, started Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
 
Friday - Not much going on. Just kicked back and relaxed from a work week following a vacation. Those can always run you ragged because you feel just out of sorts. I did get a good 45 min bike ride in though before evening set.

Saturday - Exercised, then took my son to Mark's blues class. That after noon I attended one of two blues jams by the Orange County group. When it was over, I chilled at home with my son watching Harry Potter and Two and Half men. What was really cool this time at the blues jam was a number of player brought their Gibson Les Paul. Our organizer Richard had us line them all up an took a group pic. I have never seen so many Les Pauls at one of these events before. Someone could actually say - Guitar Center - :lol:. Mine is the tobacco sunburst on the left hand side.

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Sunday - Did some chores around the house and got in an awesome 1.5 Hour bike ride - Sweet! Watched some football and worked on my Weber Amp build.
 
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Friday - Not much going on. Just kicked back and relaxed from a work week following a vacation. Those can always run you ragged because you feel just out of sorts. I did get a good 45 min bike ride in though before evening set.

Saturday - Exercised, then took my son to Mark's blues class. That after noon I attended one of two blues jams by the Orange County group. When it was over, I chilled at home with my son watching Harry Potter and Two and Half men. What was really cool this time at the blues jam was a number of player brought their Gibson Les Paul. Our organizer Richard had us line them all up an took a group pic. I never saw so many Les Pauls at one event before. Mine is the tobacco sunburst on the left hand side.

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Sunday - Did some chores around the house and got in an awesome 1.5 Hour bike ride - Sweet! Watched some football and worked on my Weber Amp build.
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Your Les Paul sounded great yesterday...I actually liked comparing your guitar with the 59's with mine of the same vintage with the Burstbuckers...
 
Mark Wein said:
Your Les Paul sounded great yesterday...I actually liked comparing your guitar with the 59's with mine of the same vintage with the Burstbuckers...
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Thanks. I will probably list the one lone Burstbucker that came with the guitar. Don't want it, don't need it. I outta bring my LP Studio Plus next week for you to check out. Those pickups are stock with 495's and guitar sounds great - light too - it is deceiving. I am debating on replacing those with a 59 in the tail and a SD Jazz in the neck. That was always my normal combo before for humbuckers.
 
Friday: worked at home because of the heavy snowing and had dinner with wifey.
Saturday: relaxed the whole day, made a dinner with halibut, a sauce from fish stock, cream, orange and rosemary - the same dish as I have posted a pic of before.
Sunday: read and graded 8 essays from Arkhangelsk in the morning. Went out in the snow with the car for a rehearse with my band. The bassist has got us a gig at a pizzeria (!) where he lives, so we need to rehearse. I just wonder what will happen: freejazz for a pizza and beer consuming audience. Probably they will start to throw things, and I will get a pizza over my beloved Howard Roberts Fusion... :(
 
Friday, ran errands, loaded up on dog food, went to a new Mexican restaurant, bought new sneakers and a pair of winter shoes

Saturday, more errands and gigged Pagan's MC Christmas party/toys for tots.

Sunday, worked around the house, fixed the doggie gate, bought an amp, watched 1/2 hour of Steelers and went to bed.
 
friday - went to see George Porter (bassist from The Meters) at Sullivan Hall. Lo Faber & Aaron Maxwell from God Street Wine opened with an acoustic set and Warren Haynes showed up at about 1:30am. it was a good night.

saturday - lessons. they've been a lot of fun recently. then went over to wife's friend's place for drinking and empanadas. i think i ate something like 10 empanadas. i'm still full.

sunday - recovery. played a little. noticed that i lead with my ring finger and i'm now trying to lead with my pinky. it's like a whole new world.
 
Had a birthday party for my daughter on Saturday. She is turning 14. We had about half of her soccer team over and they played music and I lit a fire. They roasted marshmallows and generally destroyed my house.

We have one of those fire pits you can buy at home depot but I am thinking I want to build one in the back yard now. We use it frequently and I think it would look cool. Need to figure out some plans.

Sunday I went to see a band play at our amphitheater. Finally, a good band with a good sound guy. I was starting to wonder if maybe our building was problematic for sound but my faith was restored. This band is actually a band for one of the local churches and they were fantastic. There is a local girl who has done some recording in Nashville named Amber Leigh who joined them. I've seen her perform since she was about 16. I think she is 23 or so now and is amazing. Plays fiddle and mandolin mostly and of course sings and is a great performer. So they played everything from Pink Floyd to Taylor Swift.

And, I actually got some good guitar time in this weekend.
 
Friday- worked late
Saturday- picked up giant bed from furniture store with the help of a friend with a trailer. Assembled bed. Took me five beers and a trip back tot he furniture store to get the correct bolts/frame slats. Wife was very happy to have a new giant piece of furniture in the bedroom for me to stumble into in the dark when I get ready for work.
Sunday- typical chores around the house, worked on a grant.
 
Friday - moved old computer down to the rock dungeon. Tried unsuccessfully to connect it to the wireless internet. I think I just don't get much of a signal down there. Then FenderPusher and his lady-friend came over for BBQ and some cocktails.

Saturday - Was gonna paint the living room this weekend. Started scraping some crummy looking plaster off the wall under the bay window. Realized the drywall was rotten. No problem - pulled out some drywall. Oh, the load bearing studs are also rotten at the bottom. And what's that, dirt down there? No, that's the remains of the sill. Fook. So in the end we dismantled an 8' section of curved load bearing wall, one stud bay at time, down to the foundation, and rebuilt it up from the top of the foundation to the bottom of the window using pressure treated wood. Then insulation, vapor barrier, expanding foam to seal up the cracks.

Sunday - drywalled the rebuilt wall and actually did some painting. The moral of the story is KEEP THE FUCKING GUTTERS CLEANED OUT and you won't get water where it shouldn't be and ruin your weekend.
 
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My weekend was pretty good... a lot of chilling out and movie watching:

Friday - watched "Knight and Day", played a little guitar

Saturday - we had my parents over for dinner so we went shopping in the morning. Watched "The Last Airbender"... sucked.

For the meal, we served a Caprese salad to start, then had a quartet of flatbreads for the main meal served family style:

1. Italian Sausage, onion and goat cheese
2. Chicken Pesto
3. BBQ Chicken
4. apple, smoked bacon and brie

Then for dessert, we served "fried ice cream". It was a great meal, just expensive and took forever to prep.

Sunday - taught some lessons, the wife decorated the house with Christmas stuff, watched "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", played more guitar.

Great weekend!!!
 
Friday: Not much to report. Watched a movie at home, I think.

Saturday: Got the car inspected, did a little grociery shopping, went home. Our upstairs heat quit working on Thursday, so I decided to take a look at it on Saturday. Turns out the blower motor burned out, so since we have two furnaces (one upstairs, one downstairs) and we don't use the downstairs furnace (we use oil filled radiators down there) I took the blower motor from the downstairs furnace and put it in the upstairs furnace. Once that was fixed, we took my parents to dinner for their 40th anniversary. Then we went home and relaxed.

Sunday: Got up and ran 6.5 miles with the pups on trail in the snow. Then went home and took hot showers. After that, Mrs. P made some chili and stuffed peppers while I watched TV. Watched an Arrested Development marathon, then watched a really bad chick flick from Netflix. After the movie, Mrs. P went to bed and I watched football.
 
Friday - Watched 'How To Train Your Dragon' for the first time (B-Day present from my oldest son). Great flick....

Saturday - Band practice got canceled so we ran errands all day. Watched some 'The Two Towers' in the evening.

Sunday - Up early for church then chilled for a bit with some friends. More anime with the kids (yeah - we are addicted) then to bed early.

Basically we didn't do jack all weekend....
 
Let's see.

Friday night I had band rehearsal from 7:30-10:30 and I gotta say that was probably the first time I had a Friday night rehearsal in at least 15 years. This band is new so over Thanksgiving I went into the "Song Hopper" and boned up on stuff I've written that never got used. Threw six new tunes at those guys. After that watched that Scorsese Stones film with the Mrs.

Saturday I slept in and went to the gym to pump iron around noon. Got back home, shoveled snow and put away all the patio furniture and stuff. Then I did a bunch of chores but when I was taking out the paper and cardboard recycling I slipped on the stairs and cracked my back really fucking hard. So I spent most of the night laying on bags of ice, it hurt bad and it still hurts today but not as bad as I thought it would.

Sunday I got up early and mixed the recordings from rehearsal. Then teh Mrs. put on a big pot of chili and we watched the Bears/Lions game. After the game I made some fruit salad and then iced my back while watching the third period of the Blackhawks game and then I went bed.

Not really all that interesting.
 
Fri. - Big holiday hootenanny in Balboa Park. Had some killer Hungarian sausage and some Old Speckled Hen ale. Very nice.
Sat. - Took the kid to our next door neighbor kid's birthday party at a cool gymnastics place. Then went to the in-laws' place for mother-in-law's birthday. Ate a pile of sushi and drank Sapporo and Kirin Ichiban. (Had some cake too.)
Sun. - Made Danish filled pancakes (Ebelskivers)--YUM! Chilled out and played some guitar. Had some good tamales that my father-in-law picked up at some hole-in-the-wall restaurant. Drank Firestone Double Barrel and Pale. Watched the season finale of Boardwalk Empire.
 
Friday: conversation with lead guitarist that made me realize that the band would not be getting together this weekend or next. If we're lucky then the 17th. Decided to play around "learning" a few songs out of early 1990's Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazines. Found most of the tunes I was interested in required downtuning of guitar, so settled on lazy scale practice.

Saturday: Took daughter to ballet. Some a-hole was bugging my friend about my parking my camper on the public street. Apparently that's a crime these days. I would have taken care of it, but my parole officer already has me on a tight leash. Anyway, after ballet, we hung at the Barnes and Noble because there are no real bookshops or cafes in the neighborhood these days. Bought a Christmas tree. Went out for dinner with the family, then came home, put kids to bed, and considered playing the guitar. Settled for filling out job applications.

Sunday: Holy crap. Apparently a-hole across the street formed some kind of posse and threatened my buddy's mom. Looks like I'll be moving on. Anyway, took my son to basketball; it was the first game of his season. Then we went shopping for socks and undergarments for the homeless (no, not my soon to be evicted bud and myself -- for men at the local shelter) and for some 3T clothes and toys for my son's school's Christmas giving drive. Graded papers until my eyes bled.
 
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