My brain feels like it’s a bit on the medium-well side. We got that new console installed today. 27 hours. We hit a major technical snag that put the whole project on the brink of failure, and that set us back nearly eight hours. If it wouldn’t have been for that, I would have been in dreamland a whole heck of a lot sooner. I did crash for about a half hour in my office when I couldn’t see straight or walk without running into walls. Sleep deprivation… It’s a trip, man.
Sad news graced my world the other day. I don’t think that Spain is going to be possible this year. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I’m going to have to drop back to plan B. Brian and Adam have been hounding me to come back out to NYC, so there’s that option. My only fear there is that those two are looking to trap me there and not let me come back to the midwest. On the other side of the country, Winnie wants me to go see her in the San Diego area. Another option is to hop down and visit Renee down in Florida. So I have some ideas. The hard part is choosing where to go. The city, which I absolutley love, or fun in the sun, which I am, as Nay would say, fixin’ for.
Being that it’s apart of my job, I engineered a show Friday night where Christopher O’Riley, host of the syndicated radio show From the Top, was the guest for the first portion of the show. The guy not only is a host of a program, but is a super talented musician, piano in particular. He likes to play arrangements of various tunes that he writes himself, for the piano. I thought it was pretty great when he said he was going to play one arrangement of an Elliot Smith song, and then play another one by R.E.M. However, what really got me was when he said he would finish by playing Paranoid Android by Radiohead. Each piece made my eyes light up and put a grin on my face. It was thrilling to hear him play. Being so burnt out on that board, it was a huge uplift to my spirits.