Well, dear readers, we’ve had the second to last performance of Inside Out – not as sharp as Friday night’s performance, but still it went very well and we had a very appreciative and completely full house. I actually didn’t know more than a couple of people, which surprised me. After, a few of us made our usual pilgrimage to the Coral Café. I had a Chinese chicken salad – not great, but filled me up. Then I came right home.
Prior to the performance, I’d gotten up early, had a cheese omelet, picked up no packages, had my smog check needed to renew my registration, then come home. Once there, I answered e-mails, had telephonic conversations, made a tentative song order for the first half of the April Kritzerland show, and then finally went to our three o’clock band rehearsal. Our bass player had gotten poked in the eye at some silly basketball game so he couldn’t be with us, and Grant Geissman was under the weather so he couldn’t be with us. So, it was just Lanny, Ed Smith (on drums) and Phil Feather on reeds. We went through everything, got tempos where we needed them and switched up a couple of endings to make better buttons for the show. That all took two hours. Then I came home, got ready, and then moseyed on over to the theater.
Today is a completely crazy day. I have to be up by nine and out of the house by ten-fifteen. They’re doing some bicycling thing near me and many streets are closed off, but I’m hoping I can get to the freeway without any problems. I then do the paperback book show in Glendale, signing from eleven to twelve. I don’t know why I bother doing it – I think in the four years I’ve done it I’ve sold two books. I’m bringing a random selection plus some Nudie Blu-rays. Once I’m done there, I go directly to the theater for our closing performance of Inside Out. Hard to believe we’ve already had our entire six-week run. As soon as we come down, I have to beat it over to The Federal for an abbreviated sound check. The band, however, will be there at three-thirty and they’ll be running stuff until I get there with Sandy. That should give us a half-hour to run the most critical tempo stuff. Then we eat, and then it’s show time. We should have around sixty people there, which is a nice-sized house for the room – obviously not a sellout, but they set up the room so it looks full, which is great. After the show, either some of us will go out, or I’ll just come straight home, as it will have been a very long day for me.
Tomorrow, I have to really catch up on a lot of stuff – the ALS show, writing the commentary for the Kritzerland show, hopefully entering the final corrections for the new book and getting that all finished up, doing errands and whatnot, eating, hopefully picking up some packages and then at some point maybe even relaxing. The rest of the week is meetings and meals, getting the piano back in working order no later than Tuesday, some ALS rehearsals, and lots of other stuff.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a book signing, see the final performance of Inside Out, do a sound check, eat, and debut Sandy’s new act. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, sad to be saying goodbye to Inside Out.