Drummer's Corner of the World

Longer report will come tomorrow, but before I fall into bed, I wanted to post a quick shout-out to all our Wild Mercy friends who came to our gig at Mallow Run Winery this evening, south of Indianapolis. The weather was gorgeous, the winery beautiful (and the wine tasty!), and it was great to see a bunch of our Indy and Central Indiana (and even Cincinnati!) friends again.

Thanks to everybody who came out! We had a great time! :-)

Woohoo!! Details have been worked out and it's decided! The Traveling Fates (s00j, Ginger Doss and Bekah Kelso) will be in concert at my house (I love my life!) on October 9, 2009.

From Sooj's website...

Friday October 09, 2009 — 8-10pm
Traveling Fates House Concert
at RedDog North, hosted by Debbie G.
RSVP to house @ reddogs.com
Frankton, IN 46044
317-701-1107
$10-$15 suggested donation for these traveling grrlz
House has cats and dogs which will be elsewhere for the show.
Supervised minors welcome.
with Sooj, Ginger, and Bekah's music woven together!

So there you have it. :-) Plan now, mark your calendars, and come join us for the evening! Weather permitting, the show will be on the back porch. If weather doesn't allow for that, we'll be in the downstairs den. Some of you have been here before, and I'll provide the address via email to anybody who RSVPs (I'll also probably put it up in a friends-locked post closer to the time of the show).

For those of you who've heard Sooj... think about her music and then imagine three equally strong and wonderful women, weaving amazing harmonies and raising boundless energy... that's the Fates. From their website... "The Traveling Fates - a genre-hopping musical ride skirting the edges of Alt-Rock, Americana, Jazz, Folk-Hop, and Mythpunk: three women take control of their destiny, to pursue their dreams, and to live them. Three songwriters take the stage together, to share their voices, their muses, and their stories. Three powers come together in perfect harmony, to inspire many others to follow. Ginger Doss, Bekah Kelso, and S. J. Tucker are the Traveling Fates."

Plan now... you know you want to be here!

If you haven't made your OVFF reservations already, the room block is apparently sold out for two nights already (not the hotel... just the block). I just booked for Thursday night through Sunday night and got two nights at the block rate and two nights at the regular rate.

I guess it's going to be a full con!

(ETA: Web site has been fixed (a glitch had made the menu disappear) and the room block should be getting expanded... yay for the power of teh intarweb! :-))

(Edited again... Block has been expanded. My reservation has been fixed by the very nice Zach who took my call earlier this afternoon. Still a good idea to book soon, though!)

Trooper repairs were completed today, so I was able to trade ASG their shop truck for my Trooper, and then retrieved the dogs. Got home in time to introduce Murphy and Drummer to the girl who came to help clean the gutters... she's been studying less common breeds of dogs, recognized Murphy, and had never seen a Toller "in person" before, so we had a nice chat and the boys got lots of snuggles.

They were very happy to be back to their backyard, and Thunder is thrilled to have his playmates back.

Still no word on what Enterprise is actually going to charge me for the rental, but for now I'm just happy to have truck and critters all back where they're supposed to be!

First... photos... at least the ones I've gotten processed so far, are over on Flickr, so go take a look! I'll eventually get through the rest. Maybe even this week, 'cause by next weekend there will be more photos (more on that in another post).

( Duckon, part 2, is back here... )

Eventually, all good things must come to an end, and I had a long drive ahead of me, so I headed out a little after midnight. I discovered that Chicago is full of batshit crazy motorcyclists who like to race on the interstate in the middle of the night, and then I got stuck in construction and spent almost an hour going three miles while trying to keep my truck from overheating (note to self... refill the water bottle and have the radiator checked for leaks). Once I escaped the gravitational well which is the Chicago interstate system, it was an easy drive home, and I rolled into the driveway about 4:30 a.m.

Duckon and WindyCon have both been on about a once-every-two-or-three-years schedule for me, but I will definitely be back at Duckon next year because Talis Kimberley is the Filk GOH and I love love love her music and have never had the opportunity to hear her in person. Yay!

And that's it for the Duckon '09 wrap-up. More pictures will be coming (hopefully) later this week. And now, I'm off to bed...

Haven't written Duckon, Part Two yet... I've been going through photos instead. First batch is going up now. Folks in them will get the first opportunity to say "Eek! No, not that one!" or to add comments and heckle, then I'll post the URL. :-)

Short version... Duckon rocked like a rocking thing... Cats survived three days home alone, and missed me but forgave me... Dogs were sprung from boarding today and also forgave me... Next year's Duckon will also rock.

( Long version is back here... )

And good grief... it's 2 a.m. and I have to work tomorrow, so the rest of the recap, including Saturday's open filk and all of Sunday, will have to wait 'til tomorrow!

...I'll be at or near Duckon! W00t!

There will be much musical goodness.

I have no programming responsibilities whatsoever, which makes me very very happy. My time is my own, to spend w/ many people who I don't see nearly often enough.

Will you be there?

Today is min0taur's birthday. Happy Birthday, Barry! I hope you're having a good one!

I finally managed to get camera, camera battery and then card reader into useful locations and I have pictures of Murphy, the household's foster Shiba Inu. He just turned a year old, and he's turning into quite the nice little guy. He's also generally an excellent housedog. Of course, as I typed that, I heard crunching noises and found him munching on the buckle to one of my sandals. Thankfully, he hadn't done any damage yet when I redirected him back to a bone and a toy.

( pictures are back here! )I hope you enjoyed the tour of Life With Murphy!

Originally published at reddogs.com.