Calvin's Weblog

Bliggidy-Blog, Bliggidy-Blog...

I did so well and keeping up the blog entries for all of about 3 days... but then I relapsed I guess...
I suppose I'm still a little weary of investing a lot of time in this thing, after the crash the other month where I lost 6 months of my blood, sweat, tears, heart and soul... of all the websites I losr when that harddrive fried, by blog was definetly the most devastating blow.
So, what have I been up to? Well, Friday night we had a good Scarecrow Balcony rehearsal - Wayne had come over to my place on Wednesday to co-authour a new song over a few shots of absinthe, and we actually completed a song in two hours (you were right Sage, that stuff really IS 'liquid muse') - so Friday we attempted to get it down with drums, and complete the arrangement. We've got less that 3 weeks now until the big show at the Cobalt on the 13th, and I think we've finally got enough material... we just gotta get good at it.

Oh - heads up... almost forgot again..... Scarecrow Balcony will be playing at Pub 340 again, on Friday December 5th. They loved us so much they practically begged to have us back. They gave us first choice of any Friday in December.

So Saturday, Carole took off shopping at the mall with a friend, then the went off to some art show and ended up doing the Cultural Crawl in East Van... I went shopping for food-stuffs. I was back in the cooking/baking spirit and ended up making a huge batch of pumpkin pie tarts (with whip cream, yum!) and for dinner, which by the way was perfectly planned to be coming out of the oven the second that Carole walked in the door... for dinner was Calvin's super-yummy breaded veal parmigiana with tossed salad and a side of sauteed mushrooms and shallots in thick sour cream sauce. To die for. And it made a great breakfast, lunch and dinner on Sunday too.

Sunday was a lazy day - as Sundays tend to be... I id some work on my new computer, tweaking the printer privers, installing some free linux games that looked kewl, including 'FreeCiv' - a clone of my favorite game from a decade ago, Civilization. The nifty thing about FreeCiv though, is that it's got a game server, so all my friends (well, both of them) can connect to my server and play along in true multiplyer mode. The old Civilivation was not network aware...
I also learned a couple more covers for the cover band - the band still doesn't have a name, but when Ron suggested "how about the Pickled Livers" and everyone groaned, I was like "aw man, I can make up names till the cows come home...." I looked at evertone in the band and said How about "Splatty Matt and the Wasted Boyz?, or Macho Man Randy and his Dandy Banditos? Or Ron the Don, and his Mafia Five? Ravin' Dave and the Depraved Slaves? Salivatin' Calvin and the Galvanized Five?" (yeah, yeah, yeah - they all suck... I was just trying to be funny...) - everyone was pising themselves laughing after Splatty Matt... so who knows, unless Matt's totally livid about it, that may even be our new band name... sheesh.

So Carole and I ended Sunday with a couple of Pay-Per-View movies: Down with Love (very clever, and very funny), and The Italian Job, which was, well, just plain cool!
I didn't get the outdoor Christmas light up for the third weekend in a row, and I didn't really do much work around the house at all - but hey, it was a pretty nice weekend.