Weekend Wrapup

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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Friday - Gig at Stubriks in Fullerton with Kingsize

Saturday - work and then gig at the Blue Beet in Newport Beach

Sunday - family day. Mrs W is off with my daughter and her friends at a park playdate and I'm home watching my son and one of his friends destroy my backyard this afternoon.

Spent some time working on the transcriptions of my album for a book that I'm going to put out based loosely on the woodshed diary that the guys who contributed $100 to my album fundraiser are getting. Transcribing my own solos is fucking with my head.
 
Friday--picked up my Tele from the shop, stopped by a venue that gave us a check that bounced. The guy I needed to settle up with was on vacation :mad:. I filled a 4 gallon bucket with wild grapes and canned up a gallon of grape juice, and peeled another 4 gallon bucket's worth of wild apples and made applesauce. We took some friends out for drinks and dinner to repay them for the hundreds of dollars of cloth diapers they gave us for our soon-to-be.

Saturday--another gallon of grape juice, and canned the applesauce (3 quarts). Wrote a set list for next week's show, mixed the demos and prepped the lyric sheets for the band's upcoming Christmas EP, and sent all that out. Learned that INXS song "Never Tear Us Apart". Did some baby shopping and had smoked chicken thighs with roasted beets and broccoli. Burned off some brush in the back yard, and hoped to make some charcoal in the fire, but it didn't burn long enough.

Sunday--Breakfast with Wife at a great local place w/ gluten free toast, and went for a walk in the park across the river from us. Cut down some trees that were leaning on the power lines, cut up some scrap wood for the charcoal kiln, and made a pizza. Climbed up on the roof to see what the roofers have done. Got set up to paint the trim after they're done, and did some work on the neck to the cigar box guitar I want to finish before summer's up. Now I'm going grocery shopping and hopefully getting a workout in.
 
Friday, worked then came home and cooked... Something. I do t even remember what. :embarrassed: picked up the new shadowrun game on steam and played that wayyyy later than I meant to. Great nostalgia trip.

Saturday, I took my daughter to the zoo. I totally forgot about the cubs having a home game and the Chicago airshow, the place was PACKED. We had a great time anyway, and all it cost me was the bus fare. Having a free zoo nearby is going to be a very good thing :) came home, made dinner, played some more shadowrun.

Today, nothing. All day. Just relaxed. Took a nap, even. Walked to the grocery store, grilled chicken legs and corn for dinner. Nice day.
 
Mark Wein said:
Unbelievable that a venue can't cover a performance fee. I wonder how much longer they'll be around.
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They're just getting started up. But it was WAY under our normal rate, since we had a hole in the schedule and wanted to try it out. Hard to believe they can't keep a couple hundred bucks in the account.
 
Friday - Went out to dinner and woke up at 4 a.m. throwing up. Food poisoning FTL.
Saturday & Sunday - Worked on fall scheduling. It's always rough, but I have some real PITA people this year that are simply not being reasonable. Even worse, everyone is requesting evening times, so that's going to cut into the practice/open mic availability and D&D night. Played some Fallout 3 and napped... still not feeling great. :(
 
Chicken Man said:
They're just getting started up. But it was WAY under our normal rate, since we had a hole in the schedule and wanted to try it out. Hard to believe they can't keep a couple hundred bucks in the account.
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Hopefully its a blip and not a preview of how things will be in the future with those guys.
 
not much friday and saturday. highlight was coming home friday night, pouring a drink, and playing guitar for an hour.

went to Coney Island today. started at the new Luna Park and attempted to conquer my fear of roller coasters. i was fine through the Cyclone. then we went on one where you went upside down three times and came off shaking. later, we went to the Brooklyn Cyclones game (Mets low-A affiliate). a nice day, but i'm beat.
 
Friday - worked and packed up for a weekend away at MOPARFest in New Hamburg, ON. We stayed in Guelph and I found an awesome BBQ place. Smokin Tony's.
Damn good stuff. I ate way too much and still packed enough into a take out container for lunch the next day.

Saturday - first day at the show. We got a great spot where we could put our canopy beside the car instead of behind it. That makes it really comfortable. Plus, we got some extra shade from a nearby tree for the better part of the day.
The day started with a maple bacon crepe from a food vendor. They call it the Canadian. All fresh ingredients. All from local farmers - even the bacon. It was amazing. Truly.
The car show was busy. I haven't heard the final number on the cars in attendance, but I think it was pretty big. I know there were a lot of people. The weather was beautiful.
We ordered pizza and wings to the hotel room and just vegged for the evening.

Sunday - back to the show. Got the same spot. My brother-in-law came to visit and we walked around and checked out the cars for sale. Then we had crepes for brunch. (Hehe. Crepes for brunch at a MOPAR show... Suck it, concourse d'elegance.)
I had The American, which was ham and Swiss cheese. It was good, but The Canadian was better. :P

I won a t shirt and a cooler bag for answering a trivia question. ("Hello mudda, hello fadduh" was the answer)
We also bid to win on a couple of silent auction items.

Packed up and took the looooong way home. Almost all country roads and very round about. It was a nice drive. Picked up some food on the way home and unloaded the car and chilled for the evening.

The show is all for fun and to raise funds for kids charities. There is no judging. That makes it pretty relaxed and cool. Cars that were in the "Special interest" group in the arena in past years are out on the field this year. A car can only be in the arena once. And people do bring these special interest cars back and put them on the field.

It was a good weekend that almost didn't happen.
I usually book time off before (to get ready) and after (to recover) and I had to cancel my vacation because work piled up and will still need my time to or row and the rest of the week. So, I'll have to take that time before the end of September. The nice thing now is that it's kinda like free time because I don't have any plans for it.
 
Me Chuck and PRAGES jammed
At my mothers annual party at her house on the Greenbrier River. It was an absolute hoot. Our only freebee of the year and possibly one of the funnest. Thanks To Greg and Chuck for coming down and jamming year after year. Mom Stan family and friends really do appreciate . Peace out, Lino
 
Friday: My wife and daughter went to girl scout camp. My son and I had soccer practice, after which I played guitar and he watched 30 Rock. It was very exciting.

Saturday: Coached a soccer game that we lost. Drove to State College to have dinner with my parents.

Sunday: flea bombed the house in an effort to devastate the burgeoning flea population, thanks to our cats. Hit the grocery store, cooked up some pasta for dinner, and now I'm on the forum avoiding grading papers for my summer class that's ending this week.
 
Fri. - Gig in West Hollywood (see thread in the On Stage forum).
Sat. - Drove home and slept most of the day.
Sun. - Stained patio furniture.
 
Spent the weekend working around the house. Replaced the battery in my car (luckily it died at home) and built a handicap ramp along the stairs for a geriatric cat.
 
Friday - Got in a nice 3 mile walk and chilled. Played some guitar and figured that I need to work on some basics again like alternate picking.

Saturday - Gig with Crosscut Delux at Wholefoods followed by a party jam at a friends in Culver City. Got to the Culver City in time to be placed in the first of 2 groups. Played 3 of the 4 songs as I was setting up in Song #1. Songs played were: Blue Bossa, One Love and Footprints.

Sunday - Low key day. Got to watch 42 which is a superb movie. Gonna head off to practice some tunes soon.
 
Pretty much the usual as far as horses and the newborn. Did get some practice time in tonight, and while I'm now able to see certain ideas and sometimes pull them off, I think I suck more now because I'm trying to learn why the stuff matters and how it fits together. Before I could just wing it and if I hit a bad note I'd slide it till it sounded good :tongue: Always darker before the dawn, and all that, right? :lol:
 
Friday, hmmmm, don't remember. Grilled some steaks. Probably some kind of chores around the house. Made a run to the parts store for oil and new clay bar.
Saturday, a couple of garage sales. found a telescope at one, now just need one of our 3 clear nights a year to roll around. Did more chores. Went down to our Aquatorium on the river to see some friends band.
Sunday, more chores, changed the oil in the truck, built a picture frame for the mrs, Grilled some corn and some flank steak for fajitas, worked on a Brian Wilson teardrop and a Darklordbaimuncasterbergerdoublecut.
 
Took friday off, picked up Son of fused at airport... Did much needed stuff to bring kid back into nomal society (Photo license etc....)

Friday night, drank and drank and drank and drank....with Son of fused....and drank and drank....

Jam session sat night with Son of fused and Nephew of fused.... It was just awesome.
And we drank and drank and drank and drank................................and drank...............

Son of fused built studio monitors for fusedimprov... Now maybe fused can get the mix right. He took courses in sound design that included
designing and building the crossover etc.... Yeah, he did it all...

Built stands for monitors on sunday...just needs paint...but tested and yeah, I'm in heaven...
and we drank and drank and ...did I mention that we drank?
 
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