practice and work...

tuesday evening i opened up my old car stereo and rescued the cds from it...one did come to a tragic end at the desperate hand of my screwdriver: 3-Way Tie (for Last) has met an untimely demise...though of all my cds that i can temporarily do without until i get a replacement, i guess that's a good one (in that it's not particularly good...sorry, Minutemen, you did do much better work...) not to say i won't replace it...but it's neither rare nor a special favorite of mine, one i only marginally like...still it's sad when any cd dies...all the others were fine, as far as i know...it was in the middle...i got the first few one the bottom out by pushing 'em down and through the opening...it got harder as they went up...and that method obviously didn't work for that one...so then i had to unscrew some more and take 'em out through the top, which was easier and i should've done to begin with but i hadn't been certain how the mechanisms worked and everything fit together...oh well...

yesterday, after driving home in monsoon weather, the band got together for a little bit of a practice...mostly setting up and dicking around...not very productive material-wise, but that's generally to be expected the first time we get together after many months...it's worth it just to enter back into the swing of things...it was sans Josh, he's been busy lately, hopefully he'll be able to continue again...the rest of us were there...it was quiet too with practice pads on the drums...

work...well, having been rewarded with an extra thirty minutes to take with my lunch i was going to use it yesterday and have lunch with Mary Beth! well, her car wouldn't start so that had to be scrapped...she got a jump from a neighbor...it seems to be working now...well, anyway, the plan was to try again today...ay! well, Nick was the one who promised it to me and he ended up leaving early today but he told me Mallory was aware and that he would take care of it...well, Mallory's prissy about juggling time off and he wouldn't do it (covering the time as a "coach" he would only do a "break on me" where the supervisor takes over calls and he said he was too busy, and Nick i guess was just going to cover it as a "coach"...) though as this comes out right when i'm going on lunch and Mary Beth's already waiting for me at the restaraunt, he gave me ten minutes as a "coach" as i'd been inconvenienced (which is kind of weird logically, but anyway...) so i didn't have the hour lunch i thought i did, but i rushed and Mary Beth had already ordered (this was at La Playita and was very good) and i ate fast and managed and all was fine and will work out i guess in that i'll get to have two lunches with my wife! (i'll have to try again next week when Nick is definitely going to be there all day...) for some reason i made a stupid calculation in my head for when to head back, meaning to give myself ten minutes but ended up giving myself only five, i realized this getting to my car so i rushed and made it back to work just in time...anyway, now it's my weekend...and i really have real weekend days for once!