The busiest Monday Evar
The pic sums up how I feel right about now.
Big day. Itemized for future reflection:
1) First of all, it was a long weekend, with 4 gigs, a concert and a rehearsal. I woke up in Santa Barbara, in quite possibly the nicest house in the universe. A beautiful morning, it was, and I got ready to take the 2 hour drive back home so I could make it to work @ 4. I found some fast drivers to hang with so the drive only took me an hour and a half.
2) Had time to go hang with Steve Miller, a photographer friend of mine, we got some lunch and bought some crap at staples.
2) Work was uneventful. It was a good day though, all my students are playing well and gearing up for the recital. I had two unexcused absences at the end of the day, so I got out of there early and still got paid for an additional hour's worth of work!
3) Salsa Time! I love playing with 'Sambrosa', our salsa band. We ran several new charts and refined them at this rehearsal. This stuff is really starting to sound tight.
4) Burglar! Our Timbale player says let's take a break, so we walk out of the studio and see a kid breaking into our Flute player, Jon's car! We yelled at him and started running after him, but he jumped on his BMX and took off. I ran after him and saw the direction he went, and pointed it out to the rest of the guys, who jumped in two different cars and went driving around the neighborhood looking for him. Talk about a rush. They never found him, which was probably good. I would hate it for that kid if we had caught him, we were riled up and ready to kick some ass. It looked like he was in mid theft, pulling stuff out of Jon's car and setting it on the ground. We were very fortunate to have come out when we did, cause the kid had Jon's very expensive watch on the ground, next to his old cellphone's battery. Jon thinks all he got was his old cell phone, which he didn't care about, but was really stoked that he didn't get away with the watch. Kid had broken the watch band somehow and set it on the ground, and didn't have time to grab it as he saw us and split.
5) Old Friend. After all that madness, We finished rehearsing and called it a night. I'm the last one to leave cause I have the keys, and my phone rings showing 'Unknown Number'. I take a chance and answer it. It turns out to be none other that -------------! An old friend that was in several bands with me. We were roommates in the past and super good friends, but he got all weird and we kicked him out of our band a little under a year ago. He was calling to talk, like one of those, 'Hey, haven't talked in a while, sorry I was a dick, how've you been' kind of phone calls. I was sincerely stoked to hear from the guy and appreciated the call. I mentioned that I needed to get his phone number, cause it didn't show up in my phone, and he's notorious for not being easy to get a hold of. He used to give people his number and it would be disconnected within a week. He says, 'yeah I'll give that to you, but any ways, I'm a new man now blah blah....' and before he has a chance to give me the digits, I drive through the no reception zone on the way to my house and the phone call gets cut off. Once I got home, I kept expecting a phone call or a voice mail or something, but no. In true ---- style, I get none of the above. So I just have to forget about it and wait till he calls back when he's ready. Oh well.
6) Whew. Now I'm so tired that my entire body aches. I think I'll sleep in tomorrow.
