Slept in my own bed for the first time in three weeks last night and I didn’t realise how much I missed the place until I got into bed. I slept the sleep of the dead and have woken up this morning full of energy unlike Heather who is hoping that against all odds we will have that thing in the sky that makes it warm again before Xmas…I also share the optimism but in all fairness I think we have seen the last days of whatever constitutes our ‘Summer of 2008′ and are now firmly into AUTUMN - my favourite season when the leaves FALL…. hehehe..Dang it was cold last night at Casa Bonita…
I haven’t laughed so hard in so long as when we went to see ‘Step Brothers‘ last night at the cinema. It rounded off a great week and a weekend of fun with Mills and I went to bed last night a happy man. Now that I have a Tortilla obsessed daughter as well as girlfriend, I commented that they can’t be that hard to make rather than buying them all the time. 
So Heather checked it out and they really aren’t very hard to make at all! Plus they cost practically nothing…and they taste fan-bloody-tastic fresh. As we are living at the Ranch while Mom and Paul are in Cali, we had loads of space to bring her little table and chair in to the kitchen area so she was involved in all the cooking and loved it . Me and Mills also made scrambled eggs and she was amazed after the eggs that she had smashed and mixed became firm. Oh the fun we’ve had this weekend! Flour everywhere, even on the dog who has really taken to rubbing herself in fresh badger poo most mornings, which is nice….
I’ve changed the buttons on the right hand side (above the search box) to be two of the web sites I use a lot and highly recommend - finetune and pixlr. Finetune is amazing because you just put in an artist you like then hit play and then you have a free playlist of music while you are on the web. Pixlr is a web based picture editor which if you use Adobe’s very expensive photoshop, you will be right at home BUT for free!
After 3 gigs this weekend including a great set at the bar academy in Brum and a slot at the Bridgnorth Festival, we came, we saw, we rocked. I played badly at the Saturday gig as I had a few blister issues and was really put off by this big lump of water filled skin which today looks like another finger is trying to grow. It felt like a piece of cork stuck to my finger and kept getting stuck on the strings. I also sang badly but there is nothing new there ;-) Last night we did a lower key but tight performance at the Lounge bar in Bridgnorth and today I am shattered. I’m really looking forward to a week without music and some time to see my family and allow my hearing to recover…I ain’t gonna lie to yer, it felt good out there on that stage…
Had the heads up on this piece of software from Dexter at work, it’s pretty good and more importantly legal! To watch the freeview channels on your computer all you’ve got to do is download the program, sign up and then bingo. Robert is your father’s brother and fanny is a rude word…
We took Jake home last night after his Summer of graft at the Ranch and, just to make a change, I made a bad decision on the direction on the Motorway and had to drive many miles to get back on the right side. So, this morning on the way into work I said to meself “enough is enough I have to get another GPS system” - I was there, you should have seen it, I was very forceful. I am sick of relying on my damaged brain to navigate me when even getting to a gig in the middle of Birmingham is like trying to get through Bejing to me. I just can’t remember the routes and the frustration it gives me is just not good. SO, it was my Birthday last month, (you may have noticed) and I was planning on something special for me with my cash but I reckon that this will make me happier in the long run. Good old t’bay has provided and with a bit of luck if it claims to be everything it says it is I can use it worldwide. Which is nice. I’ll still probably manage to enter the wrong address and go the wrong way for an hour before I notice….
Given that my phone doesn’t create videos that my normal gallery likes, I’ve chucked a couple of videos of Mills onto my YouTube account. if you click on WATCH at the top of this site (next to LOOK and DEAD etc.) then you can check ‘em out.
Also, we have a gig on Friday 22nd August in Brum at the Bar Academy. We have to sell many, many tickets so if you fancy a night out in Brum please let me know ASAP.
I’ve got this week off to do my bit in making our new album and we are once again setup in the School that Neddy teaches at. As the kids are out making mischeif for the summer, we can use the School’s facilites to get the drums down for our 10 or so tracks that are ready to be put to tape (or PC hard disk as it is these days). Listening back to what we did in October last year, we have really improved both in playing and in what we are playing note wise and I’m really looking forward to hearing the results - we may even get some real CDs created for sale to the baying crowds at our gigs….well there was this guy at the last one who looked drunk enough to want to buy some stuff….and he did nearly climb the stage on our last number until he fell into a bunch of amps…
In other news, it’s still all gravy here at Casa Bonita with lots of smiles and ‘happy auroras’ abound plus looking forward to a possible trip to California at Xmas. Fingers crossed if I can swing the cash that is. Might have to start selling organs soon though or as Wez put it the other day, I should sell a kidney on ebay and rent the machine until I can afford to buy one back! The point is that I’m happy again now and the last 12 months of hurt (yes it has been very nearly that long) have been some how worth it to find someone who has made me this happy in just a month. I thought I’d be broken forever and would never find someone who made me feel like this. So good to be smiling again. AND she makes grrrrreat cakes!
It’s been a while but Wolves has once again lived up to it’s reputation. Some cheeky f*ckers have only gone and stolen my licence plates off my car in the night. Who knows what they are currently stuck on and for what nefarious purpose. I’ve reported it to the Police and have a crime number. This morning I had to create new plates out of folded A4 paper and my best rendering of a number plate font - well the best that you can do whilst rushing to get to work and using a Sponge Bob SquarePants crayon that is…
