The Tracy Story

I mentioned the other day I had a Tracy story. I guess since I said it existed I should go ahead and share.

Friday morning of last week we were having a fierce thunderstorm around 4. The thunder woke Tracy, so he was ready to get up and go. I ended up with Gray because he was scared of the storm and Shelly took Tracy downstairs to get some water.

After Tracy had his water he told Shelly it was time to get up. She told him, no, that it was the middle of the night, and we need to go back to bed. He insisted, though, it was time to get up. Shelly again told him it was the middle of the night, to which he responded that it was not because the morning was 'blinking its eyes'.

We all know children come up with some good ones. This one was exceptional to me, though. Sure it made me giggle, but I really enjoyed the creativity. First he wanted to get up but he knew he couldn't if it was still night. He also knew that the first thing he does when he wakes up is to blink to clear his eyes. Logically, then, the lightning was morning blinking its eyes. Logical creativity, great.

Of course as cute as it was, Shelly did convince him to go back to bed. Once he went back to bed he stayed there until 9 that morning. All in all it was a pretty good morning.

Too Much of Everything, Not Enough of Anything

I have been bad lately, not posting, not updating, not doing much of anything but working. It seems I have at least two full-time jobs plus kids and a wife.

I think I've mentioned previously that I'm in a new band. This one has a legitimate shot at doing a few things. We're not going to hit the top 40's, it's not even a desire, but right out of the gate we have word of mouth and a couple decent gigs lined up. Right now we have a couple small things lined up as warm ups for a big gig in late June. The promoter's expecting 2,000 at the June gig. We're also working on our press/promo package and hope to really hit the festival and fair circuit pretty hard next summer. We may have an announcement about a pretty big gig in late July/Early August. Stay tuned...

It turns out, though, that it's a lot of work getting this off of the ground. Obviously I've been involved in other musical endeavours, but when there's only three people and you're doing all of the work yourself, it takes a lot of hours for everyone to make things happen. So I feel like I have at least two full time jobs.

Things are coming along at home, too. Shelly graduated from college last weekend and Gray's getting out of his cast on Tuesday. Gray also gets out of school Friday, so we're heading off on vacation next Saturday. It's much needed.

And that's an update for now. I may post some more over the weekend. I have a good Tracy story in the wings.