offBeat wrapped up recording our album on Thursday night. No timeframe yet as to when it'll be ready because it still needs to be mixed and duplicated (and CD duplication is not cheap), but the tracks that are already finished sound great. At some point I imagine I'll have short samples for you to listen to. Anyway you all need to come to the release party. Will let you know when it's scheduled. Incidentally, our next performances at Mill St. Inn & Pub are scheduled for April 20th and 27th, and I'll mention those again closer to the actual dates.
That's the good news I have. Friday was considerably less cool.
I was heading back to work on Friday after stopping home on my lunchbreak and got into a minor accident. I was approaching an intersection where the road running perpendicular to my path had stop signs. I did not. A car crept up to the sign, stopped, lurched forward tentatively, and stopped again. It looked to me as if the driver had changed his mind about crossing at that particular moment. Then he suddenly stepped on the gas at a moment when we were definitely going to collide. I did my best to swerve and hit the brakes but ended up clipping him anyway, which scratched up my paint and ripped off my license plate.
I pulled over. The other driver made a U-turn, put his car in park, picked up my license plate, and came over. I noticed that his car didn't have plates. I got out of him that he didn't have a license, and was uninsured, but when I asked for his contact information, he took a swing at me with my license plate, dropped it, ran to his car and drove away. Incidentally, I don't feel like making this a funny story just at the moment, but I'm sure it has the potential to be one.
The damage to my car is cosmetic, so I'm not reporting it to my insurance. I did call the police and was told (essentially) "we'll give you a break and not file a report because if you file a report we have to ticket you, and it's just not worth your expense if you haven't got contact information for the other driver, especially since he's uninsured." Maybe my priorities need reassessment, but this feels more like a minor annoyance than anything else. It would be a bigger deal if my car were newer, but I lived downtown for three and a half years where it received new dents on an almost weekly basis. The license plate annoys me, but I'll take care of it one way or another. Otherwise, I can handle it satisfactorily with touch-up paint.
The rest of my weekend hasn't been eventful enough to write several pages about it. I'll sum it up.
On Friday night,
On Saturday I ran some errands, and then in the evening I got together with
Today my sister and I went to our parents' house. We photographed the puppies and visited a little with our uncle, his kids, and our great aunt who had come from Whitewater. It was nice and relaxing, and there was a good minestrone involved. I had choir practice and was relieved to find that missing two practices has not put me irrecoverably behind everyone else. And now I'm home. Isn't that neat?