Busy weekend...
The weekend was non-stop! But then, fun work IS how I relax. ;^}

Started Friday with some more ADAT transfers and some studio work on an old C.O.G. cover that we're exhuming - 'Green Slime' Should be fun, although I note with disappointment that I can't play the Theremin part all the way through the song, as I'm busy singing at the same times, and it's virtually impossible to do those two things at once!

Saturday was spent backing up songs on my main computer (hadn't done that in a while, and it was quite overdue.) I also learned the hard way that Cakewalk cannot save a BUNdle file larger than 2GB. Badly needing to back up the full length C.o.G. concert mix I did last month, I ended up cleaning out the WAVEDATA directory of everything BUT the concert audio, then just saving that directory and the PPJ project file onto a DVD. Worked like a charm. Next will be archiving the video portion of that project... THAT's gonna be a bunch of DVD-R's.

Saturday night was enjoyed with Jeannine's sister Michelle and her friends at her birthday party in Covington. Some of her friends are musicians and I passed the time quite enjoyably with some great conversation about drums, drummers, and drumming. (Most intense part of the conversation was from her friend Edvin's observations about being a musician living in Bosnia during their civil war. It's sobering to speak to somebody who's been through such an experience and reflect on just how good you've got it and how much you take for granted. Makes one want to aspire to greater heights, just out of sheer gratitude to your own good fortune!)

Sunday afternoon was spent shooting for the second installment of Charlie Brown's D&D themed 'Dice Jockies' comedy shorts. We developed a bunch of great script additions in rehearsal and blocked out some more physical stupidity on the set. Great fun working with those guys again... my character is so geeky it's hilarious just coming up with material for him. I'll let ya'll know that's online to check out.

Sunday night, after eating some yummy steak from the grill and watching last week's Doctor Who, I capped off the weekend with a visit from some old friends, the singer and drummer from the old New Orleans metal band Dead Rebecca. I have many fond memories of working with these guys, and their drummer Mike actually taught me much of my original live sound mixing techniques. Singer Will Fey had moved to Hawaii after Katrina, but had still maintained contact with some of his old bandmates, who ended up forming local metal cover band Brah. Will, Mike and I met last night at the C.O.G. Secret Lab studio and actually worked on some of the old unfinished recordings from the last installment of Dead Rebecca - instrumental parts had been recorded, but not vocals, and the storm put a stop to everything. After a couple hours of metal, we worked on a bit of Will's newest passion, reggae - recording an entire song in 30 minutes. It needs a bit of production polish, but it was amazing easy for us to loop up a great sounding reggae groove in no time flat. An easygoing end to a great weekend.

Oh, one last thing - I think I fixed my office fridge. Yea! The PTC thermistor had disintegrated. Hopefully I didn't mess up the compressor running it without the thermistor working... got a new one on order. Fingers crossed...