Long rehearsal

Thursday: Woke around 10, which didn't add up to much sleep. Considered sleeping more, but, I was too awake. Web. Gus treatments. Shower. Fed G and O. A nice breakfast of coffee-smoothie, eggs and toast. Down basement for morning practices. Drums. Loaded up my car with both my electric and acoustic rigs. Off to work. Quite a lovely day.

Saw Dnd on the street selling newspapers. Walked and got a large iced coffee. Gave Dnd $5. At work today, completed pushing the new formats through to the other parts of the program. Nibbled on some greens and pizza that MB had packed for me. Burned a CD for Shawn of some of my favorite tracks from the last two Rush albums. Met him at 7:30.

Over to Arlington for a long rehearsal. Made up set lists for Saturday and decided which pieces should be acoustic and which electric. Played almost everything through twice and some three or four times. Shawn said that he was feeling disconnected from the music... I commented that this can actually be useful. It's good to know that you can do your job: play your notes, even if you're not "feeling it." Sometimes even though things feel wrong, your playing just fine. Knowing this can help despair from settling in. And then, perhaps you'll reconnect. Overall my wrist was feeling OK tonight. I still have a scar on my thumb from the screwdriver bit on the drill, but its mostly healed.

Gave Shawn a ride home listening to some of the disk. Looks like he's moving to Porter Square. Headed home, stopping briefly at the top of the Somerville hill. MB already asleep. I ate leftover eggplant from our Italian dinner. Down basement to complete the day.