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March 8, 2015:

SPRING HAS SPRUNG FORWARD

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Well, dear readers, let’s just get down to brass tacks, shall we?  Or, at the very least, let’s get down to aluminum tacks or plastic tacks, although I find plastic tacks tacky in a wacky way.  Let’s just call a spade a spade rather than calling a spade a club or a diamond or a hoe.  I called someone a hoe the other day and they hit me.  Without further ado – it is Daylight Savings Time.  We have, whether we like it or not, sprung forward.  This gets earlier every year and ends later every year and I, for one, don’t like it, but then the Daylight Savings people aren’t canvassing me for my damn opinion, the little butt cheeks.  In any case, at two this morning it will be three this morning.  An entire hour just disappears into the ether just because it can.  An entire hour is kaput.  We lose an hour of blessed sleep and I’m already behind about ninety hours.  Oh, well, there’s nothing to be done about it.  It will be lighter longer and darker shorter or vice versa or even versa vice.

Yesterday was quite an okay day.  I was up early due to the early arrival of she of the Evil Eye.  I went and had a cheese omelet with cheese, and a bagel.  After that, I did some banking, picked up one little package and then came home.  I got the house set up for the stumble-through, then did some work on the computer.  Then everyone arrived for the stumble-through and we began.

It was certainly one of the smoothest stumble-throughs we’ve ever had.  Only really teeny-tiny lyric flubs a couple of times, but no stopping and the voices in this show are unbelievable.  Thankfully, the structure worked really well.  After, I gave some really nitpicky notes and that was that.  Then I did some more work on the computer, and then it was time to mosey on over to the theater.  When I got there, I cleaned up two little staging bits that had gotten sloppy.  We had quite a nice-sized house and it was a very nice audience.  I didn’t know many people there, although one nice and funny surprise was when a gal named Shelly Surpin came up to me – the minute she said her name and asked if I remembered her, I did immediately.  She and her partner, Andy Rigrod, were my attorneys when I made the deal for The Creature Wasn’t Nice.  It was fun to see her after all these years, and the really funny part is that her husband is the ex-husband of Adryan Russ!  As the Sherman Brothers would say, It’s a Small World.

After the show, a bunch of us went to the Coral Café.  We had the nachos supreme for the table and I did not overeat, so that was good.  I just had a few.  Then I also had a BLT-A, which is a pretty small sandwich there.  I stayed completely away from the fries and onion rings that were on the table.  We all had a lot of fun.  Then I came right home so I could write these here notes and get down to brass tacks.

Today, I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep, which I really need.  Once up, I shall just relax until it’s time for sound check.  Grant began designing the book yesterday, and I was supposed to go there at noon, but I’m just not going to function well on a show day, so he’ll finish the design then I’ll see him this week.  Then I’ll mosey on over to The Federal for sound check, after which I’ll have my usual artichoke and then we’ll do our show.  I’m sure a few of us will go out after for some food.

This week is filled with meetings and meals and casting and choosing songs and working on the book design and whatever else needs doing, and, of course, shipping CDs.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, relax, do a sound check, do a show, and then eat.  I will, of course, have a full report for you.  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.  Let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, after which we will have sprung forward.

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