So I was moping around about the doctor visit, and I was thinking about this coming Friday (today) … I’m traveling down to Columbia, MD for St. Patrick’s Day … Not the best thing I could think of doing for St. Patrick’s Day, but that’s not my decision … Octane is working at Nottingham’s … They wanted us to load in at 11:00am this morning, but that wasn’t going to happen … Two thirds of the crew have day jobs that prohibits this … The thought of sitting around and doing nothing after we load in besides the fact that it’s over a 2 hour drive just to get down there … Blah! Anyway, so I’m figuring that we won’t use what we normally use there …
I usually bring in my FOH board and run through their system … They’re not normally too happy about me taking up floor space, but there’s a nice cubby hole where I go that works well … I’m thinking that for St. Patrick’s Day and amatuer hour that I won’t be brining in a board that costs $7500 and a rack full of about $10Gs in gear not to mention sitting my $2000 laptop on top … So, instead of trying to fit a place for my laptop in a house system situation, I finally broke down and bought the iPod … I thought it might cheer me up having this thing to mess around with … It didn’t entirely … Money doesn’t necessarily buy happiness … Maybe I was concerned that I shouldn’t have spent that money on the iPod … They aren’t cheap you know … $399 plus tax … Then I got the case for it ($35) and a docking station ($99) … Makes it an expensive toy … The case is justified as I think you need to protect something that costs $399 and is that small … I’m sure it will earn its worth in the future …
So here I sit, just hours away before I have to get into it all … Not looking forward to it, but I am usually optimistic about these things … The situation usually warrants that it turns out to be a good one … Octane is a good band to work for in that they play music that I can get into … If I’m lucky, the music usually takes me away from the situation …