I haven’t posted much lately because things have been nuts. We’ve been in the process of getting a new roof on the house for three or four weeks and we finally finished this week. I still have to figure out how we’re going to pay for it, but it looks pretty good. In addition to replacing the shingles and the flat roof portion, adding/removing various venting systems and flashing and replacing rotted siding and eaves, we’re also still going to replace a rotted back door and will need to paint all of the new woodwork. It’s just primed right now to match the two year old unfinished paint job courtesy of me in the front entry area. We’re either going to paint the whole damn house or just the primed stuff depending on the estimates.
We had Thanksgiving in Dallas with my Great Uncle from Worthen, England. He’s the last of my grandfathers brothers still with us. I went to see Helmet the first night in town. It was good to see them again after all these years. I went with an old high school friend whom I haven’t talked to much lately. It was a nostalgic evening all around.
My band, The Bad Rackets (I had nothing to do with the site design. In fact, I’ll be re-doing it as soon as I finish a few other prior obligations), had another gig Thursday night with Ugly Beats, Blue Flames and Faster Disasters. Our next show is an early one at Beerland on Saturday, December 18th. The Wife and I ate at Stubb’s before our show at Room 710. We saw Lance Armstrong who was attending some sort of cycling dude dinner. We decided not to hassle him.
We put our tree up last night and attended the KUT Holiday Sing-a-long. It was a little harder to get into the holiday spirit with temperatures near 70, but it was fun.
I signed myself up for Holidailies this year, so there’ll be a lot more activity this month. I’m hoping that I’ll have the time to live up to the commitment. I already screwed up and didn’t mention the Holiday Sing-a-long on Metroblogging