A Good Weekend

You know the feeling people with regular M-F jobs get on Friday afternoon? I've been performing on weekends for so long now that I get that same feeling on Sunday afternoon. There aren't many gigs on Mondays and Tuesdays.

It felt good to be loading all my gear into the Envoy after finishing up five hours of street performing Sunday afternoon at the Tennessee Aquarium. It was a slow day so I got to do a lot of experimenting which I enjoy, but it also meant CD sales were poor.

After I left the Aquarium I picked up Angie who'd been attending Missy's dance recital and on the way home I remembered my triathlon team member, Sue, had planned a few practice climbs that evening on the Walnut Street Climbing Wall. A little reluctantly, I pulled into Coolidge Park to at least give her some encouragement. I knew I was too exhausted to climb. When I realized that I'd forgotten to bring a change of shoes I relaxed, thinking they probably wouldn't even allow me to climb in my falling apart Birkenstocks. Wrong.

Within about 15 minutes my maleness kicked in (you know, if she can do it . . . ) and I was 50 feet in the air clinging to a tiny stone with one hand while ringing the victory bell at the top with the other. I did two more successful climbs and then decided to go for the hardest looking one of them all. I wasn't so successful on this one. Thank goodness for belaying. See pictures by using the Photographs link on the left.

This morning I plan to do a little modification to my street performing gear rack, give a linear chromatic hammer dulcimer lesson and then go Kayaking on the Ocoee River this afternoon. Here's a web site put up by an old friend with some good pics from the Ocoee:

http://www.flutterby.com/danlyke/whitewater/ocoee/

The yard is in serious need of mowing and you can imagine my sadness when I awoke this morning to the sound of rainfall. :-) ¶ 8:17 AM