Payback for doing a charity gig!  There's my pickup and preamp for my mandolin.

From: CCB Automated Mailer
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:10 AM
To: Shane
Subject: Bluegrass

Hi Shane,

My boss at UTG is a member of Cherry Hills. He said several months ago there was a Bluegrass band from Hope that performed there. He really enjoyed it, and ( Read more... )

Ohhhh!!!!!!! I just got my pay stub! They didn't tell us that we got a cost of living increase... And it's retroactive!! Neat-o! Nice, unexpected $1,000 for Shadow to play with!! Sweet!

Damn... The bruising keeps growing and getting darker... My toes are bruised... Top and bottom... And now I can't get my shoe back on... Being injured sux!

Lighting + home PC = Suck!

Guitar is done.  I guess the saddle upgrade significally lowered the action...  He mentioned this 3 times...  Fear?  I'm flatpicking, which equals playing pretty darn hard...  If that action is too low, playing hard going to be a problem...  Oh well...  Oh, and I won't be able to pick it up until tomorrow because I'm completely fucking swamped here ( Read more... )

I just died and went to heaven...   I have not listened to this song in years...  

I do believe I get to see the California Guitar Trio this week.  This is very cool ( Read more... )

This song is *really* growing on me.  The whole album is a dit difficult to connect with.  I think they have transitioned from performing artists to recording artists.  Deffinetely some choice moments, but I really can't see these guys pulling this stuff off live. 

Caddies.
Piles of work.
Time to go.

In a couple of hours Amy Jo and I - (minus) children will be going out on a boat.  This week has included spending the days outsidew hanging gutters on my in-laws house.  It's been entertaining =)  Today was a break from that pleasure in trade for digging post holes, leveling poles and pouring concrete.  It's 3:00 and I'm on my 3rd beer.  When Amy ( Read more... )