This weekend was a blast. It started off a little rocky. First, the place I get a haircut the hairdresser was sick and wanted to reschedule the appointment. Therefore, I had to find another good place to get a cut and found one in the Galleria. When I got there apparently they hadn't written it down. Later I found out they had written my name down as Ryan Bess. I guess I have a tendency to mumble. Anyways I was still able to get it cut. Then I went to Guitar Center to pick up my guitar which was broken and they couldn't fix it. I had a 4 alarm guitar emergency. Finally I drove to a place in another part of Dallas and they had just closed their doors. I banged on the door and said "Nooo!" then they opened the door and had someone there who fixed it. I was very thankful. Now onto the show. Corporate Red actually played first. We started off with some acoustic songs, of which I had just learned in the parking lot. I suppose we should practice those, but it still sounded OK. Then we launched into our electric set, which we made really long. It was fun and we didn't have many mistakes so the show went well. It was almost midnight and the drummers were taking their sweet time picking up and setting up so we decided to bring on the New Year before Red Krovvy played. We were halfway into the song when I notice the time, so I made a "cut it short" sign and held up my fingers and started to scream "10..9..8..7" into the microphone. Then the band stopped playing and everyone went in with the countdown. At midnight they all screamed and blew their horns and I shouted "Happy New Year" into the microphone and then started playing "Auld Lang Sing" on my guitar. The rest of the band followed and we punked up the song as I shredded through it. Then comes on my old band "Red Krovvy" where I was the lead singer and guitar played. Yes, I do know I shouldn't be a singer, but it isn't so bad as to make people leave, matter of fact I saw more people dancing to my songs than did at Corporate Red's songs. Then after the show we got paid and went back to my place for a party. I played some more on guitar there as well. I was exhausted but I didn't get to bed till 5:30 in the morning. I woke up to the ring of my telephone of someone's wife wanting to know where her husband was. Apparently he had fallen asleep on my couch upstairs. Around the afternoon I talked to this one girl I've been seeing and we decided to play pool that night. It was fun and then we went back to my place and watched Red Krovvy from the night before. I am still a gentleman after 3 dates and still asked at the end of the evening to kiss her (yes of course). On Sunday I did church stuff all day. This time when I was doing the homeless thing someone came up and handed me a prayer request. The first line of it was "Hi Pastor my name is...." like I was some sort of preacher or something. It kind of freaked me out. I guess because after I would hand them water I would always say "God Bless You". It is just that logically they are the ones that need blessings. It is more of a computer programming logic that I say it than a preacher thing. But it made me stop and say "what if". Anyways, I went home and watched the Dallas Cowboys go 16-0 for the season to get into the Super Bowl. I do like their new running back. I think he'll get a lot of yards. I fell asleep exhausted and woke up late for work this morning, tired from all of the action of a good weekend. So as I close I just want to wish everyone a "Happy New Year"!

Thought of the Day

"Kramer, these balloons aren't going to stay filled 'til New Year's."

"Those aren't for New Year's. Those are my everyday balloons."

- Jerry and Kramer, in "The Millennium"