Wow!! 33 weeks!!!
How time flies.....I guess I don't really take this too seriously, otherwise I'd post more. But its my blog dammit and I'll post how I want!! Wait...who am I arguing with?
So....uhhhh....yeah, lotsa gigs, lotsa new stuff, oh...and DINGLEBERRIES!!! Got a new/old roomate in my good friend Auden, got a new/old job doing contract tech support and started working a couple of new orchestras. All around I can't complain......well actually I CAN, but I have less to complain about now :)
Anyhoo, I'm in El Paso right now. I'm working with the El Paso Opera and I must say I'm pleasantly surprised. There's some good players here and everybody seems to be really cool. I'll chalk this up as the second cool city I've visited in Texas. Thusfar Texas' reputation has failed to manifest, and I suspect it will continue to be that way.
I'm staying with and adorable gay couple. They're really cool guys and their house is an absolute inspiration, rarely have I ever seen a domicile so tastefully furnished and kept, all without feeling antiseptic or museum like.
The music is somewhat difficult, I'll actually have to practice for this one rather than rely solely on my sight-reading skillz. It's an all Puccini program of three, one act operetta's. Cant remember off the top of my head...but they're nice, but not much fun to play as is often the case with Opera, unfortunately.
I splurged and purchased a PSP for this trip and thusfar I am extremely happy with it. As a game playing machine it works quite well...I'm quite happy to relive my memories of the PS2 with GTA Liberty City Stories...Daxter is cool (I got the Daxter pack) and the media playing capabilities are really fun. I've been enjoying streaming media from my PS3 back home, watching MST3K, Family Guy etc. all from my central unit back in sunny SoCal. The streaming works absolutely perfectly thusfar. Text entry is a pain, but oh well....I knew that going into it.
I got alot of cool complimentary food coupons from the Opera company, some of them are supposedly to some really nice place. I'm going to start looking into these on the morrow.
Anyhow I'm going to end this post here, I hope to summon the interest to post my adventures at Carlsbad Caverns today, but that'll have to wait. Hopefully for not too long......
So....uhhhh....yeah, lotsa gigs, lotsa new stuff, oh...and DINGLEBERRIES!!! Got a new/old roomate in my good friend Auden, got a new/old job doing contract tech support and started working a couple of new orchestras. All around I can't complain......well actually I CAN, but I have less to complain about now :)
Anyhoo, I'm in El Paso right now. I'm working with the El Paso Opera and I must say I'm pleasantly surprised. There's some good players here and everybody seems to be really cool. I'll chalk this up as the second cool city I've visited in Texas. Thusfar Texas' reputation has failed to manifest, and I suspect it will continue to be that way.
I'm staying with and adorable gay couple. They're really cool guys and their house is an absolute inspiration, rarely have I ever seen a domicile so tastefully furnished and kept, all without feeling antiseptic or museum like.
The music is somewhat difficult, I'll actually have to practice for this one rather than rely solely on my sight-reading skillz. It's an all Puccini program of three, one act operetta's. Cant remember off the top of my head...but they're nice, but not much fun to play as is often the case with Opera, unfortunately.
I splurged and purchased a PSP for this trip and thusfar I am extremely happy with it. As a game playing machine it works quite well...I'm quite happy to relive my memories of the PS2 with GTA Liberty City Stories...Daxter is cool (I got the Daxter pack) and the media playing capabilities are really fun. I've been enjoying streaming media from my PS3 back home, watching MST3K, Family Guy etc. all from my central unit back in sunny SoCal. The streaming works absolutely perfectly thusfar. Text entry is a pain, but oh well....I knew that going into it.
I got alot of cool complimentary food coupons from the Opera company, some of them are supposedly to some really nice place. I'm going to start looking into these on the morrow.
Anyhow I'm going to end this post here, I hope to summon the interest to post my adventures at Carlsbad Caverns today, but that'll have to wait. Hopefully for not too long......