Bas Bleu is really a woman! (and other spoilers)

The title of this blog is dedicated to everyone who's gender cover has been blown by the new avatar setup on XBox Live. 

Almost Friday.  Yay!  Busy week at work, with the end of year coming up and us making the mad dash to meet the projections for 2008.  Makes for a lively day at least, and they tend to go by fast so thats good.

I don't have the boy this weekend, but I do have him for Thanksgiving so I'm looking forward to that.  I am going to take a shortcut with my cooking the dinner, opting instead to scout around the local markets and find places selling pre-cooked (or even smoked) birds to save myself the trouble.  Ah, the chicanery.  Who knows where this will end...I may even buy the whole dinner pre-cooked!  Muahahahahaha.

The riff I came up with that the other guys in the band helped rework has now become a full-fledged song.  I have a little tweaking to do, and its all subject to change once Ed and Brian get involved of course, but I have at least the whole thing structured.  Possibly the only thing I may still tweak is the chord progression under the solo, but we'll see.  Who knows, I may even try to write some lyrics for it too.  I used to be good at that, way back when.  I may give it a shot, we'll see.  I had a really nice compliment paid to me by Brian earlier in the week.  He told me its hard to believe I've only gotten back to playing less than a year ago (its actually been just over 9 months).  Considering what an outstanding musician he is, that means a lot coming from him.  But whats really helped me is playing with guys the caliber of Brian and Ed.  Both these guys have been playing forever and they really are great, great musicians, so it forces me to raise my game.  Plus I learn a lot from both of them when we play together, so its been a great experience so far.  On top of everything there's a good chemistry between us all so that makes a difference too.  I seemed to fit in with them right away, and it helped me get comfortable with them that much sooner.

Ok, gonna cruise Netflix and maybe watch an episode of The Munsters before bed.  Ta.