Tour Preparation

Once released from the strangle hold of the journal article, I there was 3 days to get my act together before the scheduled start of tour. That included assessing my equipment needs, setting up my gear up, mixing and transferring my backing tracks into a performance ready format, LEARNING how to play my keyboard parts, practicing the keyboard parts while singing, and, if there was time, screening 50 t-shirts so I might be able to make some gas money on tour. Full plate. I'm a pretty driven, optimistic guy, but I could see that this was an ultimate impossibility. So I called Abiku and pushed the start of tour back 2 days. Then I kept moving right along at Master's Thesis pace, again working tirelessly pulling 20 hour days.

By day 4 I had most of the hard work done, with only tshirt screening and, of course, practicing left on the table. I got a GENEROUS heaping of tshirt help from a wonderfully timed last minute visit from Sonya, which allowed me to get shirts screened and ready to go just in the nick of time. THANKS SONYA!