Time keeps rushing forward!
Wow, the next C.O.G. show's tomorrow night in Baton Rouge! VERY EXCITING!!! This is the first stage show with Lab Girl Trixie, and I'm hoping she gets a warm welcome from a good audience. Hope you're there!!!

Aside from that, progress has been made in other areas - like my laptop; the replacement motherboard came in from an ebay liquidator and I'm back up and running for $27 plus shipping. Can't beat that! Awaiting a fresh battery for the thing too. That's been needed for a good while now.

Also got my replacement Scooba battery in and hastily cleaned my office for an appointment that never showed up. *sigh*. It's kind of depressing; this is the 2nd time I've been stood up on a meeting with a new salesperson. I really need to get a salesperson or two into the mix soon or else I'll be having to work another gig. And I'd hate to lose my comfy little office. Still, all is not yet lost. More on that later.

Been spending a bunch of time programming show stuff for the C.O.G. show, of course, and it occurs to me that replacing the ancient Amiga computer that serves up our backscreen material is long, long overdue. I'm currently investigating replacing it with a PC running some very interesting software written by one of the guys from the band Klaatu (remember them?) The brutally lengthy 2 hour show list we had to assemble for this weekend precluded my getting any good research done on THAT, so for this show the trusty old Amiga continues to creak its way along. But hopefully I'll have our backscreen video system changed over for the big 100th C.O.G. show in a month or so. (that and maybe I'll also finally sit down and do DMX lighting cues for our scan lights.) Should be possible with a more reasonable, limited set list. Fingers crossed...