Howdy all!! Up to my eyeballs this week. Managed to finish and defend my Master’s dissertation and perform 5 shows so far. Luckily playing music is great stress therapy for me – I can go into a show being quite wound up, and come out feeling like a myself again. So far the new band is really doing great, and I expect us to just keep getting more in sync through Stampede. While I’m at it, I’d like to thank the organizers of First Flip, especially Megan, for bringing us back this year to perform the biggest, best breakfast of them all (5000 people – and they served FRESH FRUIT along with the pancakes and sausage!)! And I especially enjoyed the Stampede breakfast I did today at St. Peter’s Anglican church. John and I played as a duo, and then I did gospel tunes for the church service. The congregation was really appreciative! That’s a good thing because on the spur of the moment they needed another tune and I had to make up a verse of Angel Band on the fly (dang, it wasn’t in the Hymn book)! That’s what you call a little help from above! (and I can’t remember what I sang, but it did make sense at the time….ha ha)