February 16th, 2024. Coff and weaz.

Despite the cynicism of this post, it’s actually been a really great couple of weeks. Our Live from the Lair for rob Day was pretty much one of the best things ever. Even though I didn’t get the cameras REALLY where I wanted them, we had a great time packing into the basement and playing our hearts out. In addition, people were really generous and I was able to pay everyone like it was a Real Gig!

Snoof. Kristen’s down and out with COVID again, a word that I still don’t know if I’m supposed to just Capitalize or CAPITALIZE or just not capitalize at all. It had such an effect on the world that it seems like it deserves my ALL CAPS treatment so mayhaps I shan’t question it, especially in MY little Journal, in which I capitalize and fail to capitalize as I see fit. Right rob? I Love Living as I please, as it comes to capitalization at least.

It’s amazing to think that we will probably never have any way of contextualizing the years of 2020 to 2022 to those who didn’t Live through it – and even those who DID Live through it seem to have rewritten the history. The fear and question marks and suspicion and isolation. Especially as the world settles and people normalize the aftermath and minimize the fallout. We have short little attention spans and as Kristen suffers what’s effectively simply a bad cold it’s good to be reminded that a) I still really don’t want even “just a bad cold” and b) it’s “just a bad cold” in the context of Kristen having had it at least once before and being vaccinated. Again. And again.

ilyAIMY Live from the Lair – a thing that simply would never have happened sans the madness of COVID.

CNN released a really interesting (to me) article on the Georgia Guidestones today ( https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/02/us/georgia-guidestones-mystery-cec-cnnphotos/ ) which I think I’ve written about before back when they were destroyed almost two years ago. The author’s trying to track down new details about their destruction, about their construction, about their history and mystery. It’s horrifying how many people seem to be onboard with the idea that “yeah, culling the world down to half a billion people sounds like a good idea” as long as the right people are culled… of course, we saw that in action throughout the pandemic. It wasn’t so bad, as long as it wasn’t YOUR town that was out of hospital beds…

Another crazy COVID-era thing – webcasting shows for FocusMusic. (Live Saturday night with Tina Ross from Island Pride Oasis in Gaithersburg, MD)

A dark mood. I continue to test negative and be symptom free. We’ve got a gig tomorrow that’s going to suffer from lack of cello. I’ve relearned some of my guitar parts on my baritone in order to fill in the low end, something I don’t GENERALLY worry about too much, but in this context (we’re a promtirement dance band?!) I can’t get it out of my head that we’re going to be missing our bass.

One more COVID holdover – our open mic collective coming together to celebrate VOM 200 this Monday night. A list like the Bad Old Days and a glass or 10 lifted for Grover Duffield. #18.

Darkness outside. Snow should come down soon. I’m expecting it to be a non-event but there are a couple of concerned parties. Heather’s at a gig. The cat is whining. I’ve laid out my stuff for tomorrow half-heartedly. Gonna miss Kristen.