un-manic Monday 

Good morning! It's 9:03 and 28 degrees on this Winter Monday. Back in working days, a Winter Monday was a double whammy. Monday by itself in the Unemployment Office was already like a Minnesota Winter, regardless of the actual Season. . No, scratch that. A North Dakota Winter. But once you got Monday out of the way, the rest of the week was usually downhill from there..

I don't think much about those days anymore. In June it'll be ten years. But I do think about it on Monday morning. Well, for a minute or two...

Musical news. An almost gig yesterday, at Indigo. Flute/saxophones, guitar and Vibraphone. Our employer never showed up to let us in. Just a tad bit too cold to stand around outside, so we waited in our cars. Still, I didn't begrudge the time.

Except for the cold, it was at least a nice hang. The flute/saxophone guy and I have known each other for over 40 years. Hadn't seen him in ages, so there was some catching up to do. And I got to meet a new musician, Matthew something-or-other. Nice guy.

As I've said before, gigs are social events. So the nice conversation yesterday was at least half the battle..

I ended up having a great day on the guitar back here in the Lab. Recorded a bunch of things with my digital camera, of which a few survived. So there should be some new stuff on the YouTube page. Continuing to get new subscribers, which is still a huge kick. 

Overnight success after 56 years of trying!

Well this is probably more than enough to read. Thanks as ever for stopping in and wading through it. Happy Monday to you, if that's possible! For now, I'm outa this place. More later. 

PS today's pic was taken at Lime Street. Kevin Hart, me, Kevin Ellis, and Don Cochran. Or at least Don's drums. Virgil Rhodes was also sitting in. I was trying to find a pic with him in it. He is the flute/saxophone guy from yesterday's almost-gig. 

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