That just says it all.....it's the baby's estimated weight right now. The due date is still just over a week away! I can't believe that! He is going to be big! I hope that it isn't too tough a labor for Ruby. Man, I really can't believe this news that we got at our weekly doctor visit. I mean, I would have never thought that he would be this big a baby. Ruby is still a pretty high canidate for a C-Section though. They are going to let us give it a shot naturally at first, but if the labor is going to be a tough one, then they will switch to the C-Section. I am sure that they can change to that at the drop of a hat. Still, the doctor wants us to do what we can to get this labor started soon. If the baby comes on his expected due date, it can easily gain another half pound! We don't want that for Ruby, so you can definitely see the doctor's point, right?!
It's weird to think that this life changing experience can go down any day now, and at any time now. We are just playing the waiting game, but this is going to be some kind of experience, that is for sure. I have said all along, and even more so recently, this is probably the most nervous that I have been throughout this pregnancy. I mean, just not knowing exactly when he is going to make his way into this world. It just that it is so unexpected. I would hate to be stuck in traffic, or worse yet...at work (yuck!)....man, can you imagine the drive home from work, knowing that it is time?! I am sure that it won't be the longest drive I have ever endured, right!? LOL! Well...only time will tell.
I don't really know if I realize the change ahead for me. I mean, I do....but do I really?! I have no real basis on what is going to happen, you know?! One can't really prepare for something like this...I mean, REALLY prepare for this...can you??! In my mind, you can't. You can't really know what to expect until you are in the situation. At least, that is just my perpective on things. It's a little surreal. I dont' know if that is the right word for me to use or not, but it's just weird knowing that this is just around the corner. Not it a bad way either, just different. I guess that it is kind of hard to put into words. Well, getting tired and I know that Ruby is too...gotta to, can't wait to see what the next "blog" will bring news of.....
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Pale w/Johnny and the Little Champions
Last night I got to see Johnny and The Little Champions perform with Pale at one of the coolest spots in Houston, The Mink. I t was a great show. Johnny and his band are really something else. They just seem to get better and better everytime I see them. They rocked the house. The set list was pretty much the same as the Sidecar show, minus a song. The keys are a nice touch in the live rock show. I don't know what more I can say about the band. They are just that good.
Pale was an added bonus on the night, but I knew what to expect going in. It has been a good while since I have seen them, so I was excited about this show. They played a lot of new songs that sound just as good as their old stuff. I cannot wait until their new cd comes out, I think they said that they are looking at a September release. So I wait anxiously for that. The only problem with this part of the show, was that it had gotten extremely stuffy and hot in the room due to the amount of people in there at the time.
As I said before, The Mink is definitely a cool place to check out. Being there for the first time, it was a little crazy. That place can be a maze for the most part, but it is set up really cool. From what I saw, there were at least two or three different bar areas, an outside patio area, and the upstairs live area. It is really nice. Me and Ruby are definitely going to have to check this place out again when she is ready to drink! LOL! Can't wait for that again either!
Pale was an added bonus on the night, but I knew what to expect going in. It has been a good while since I have seen them, so I was excited about this show. They played a lot of new songs that sound just as good as their old stuff. I cannot wait until their new cd comes out, I think they said that they are looking at a September release. So I wait anxiously for that. The only problem with this part of the show, was that it had gotten extremely stuffy and hot in the room due to the amount of people in there at the time.
As I said before, The Mink is definitely a cool place to check out. Being there for the first time, it was a little crazy. That place can be a maze for the most part, but it is set up really cool. From what I saw, there were at least two or three different bar areas, an outside patio area, and the upstairs live area. It is really nice. Me and Ruby are definitely going to have to check this place out again when she is ready to drink! LOL! Can't wait for that again either!
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Co-Star Conspiracy?!?!
What do you think about that?! "Co-Star Conspiracy"...hmm...has a nice ring to it?! Could it be the new band name?! Maybe...right now it has definitely got to be the front runner. This is courtesy of Mike and Raymond! Thanks guys! Raymond had originally came up with "Co-Star", and he liked it. Mike put his two cents in, and suggested Conspiracy to the end....and...there you have it. Don't know if we plan on searching further on the name front or not, but for now, I think that we have our name. Not bad...not bad, at all...
Yesterday's rehearsal was a little disappointing to me. We really didn't get to work on "The Professional" at all really. It's all good, I know that we will get to it on Thursday. Still, I wish that we would have taken advantage a little more of that time in there on Tuesday, you know?! I was fairly geared up about being able to hit the song that we have chosen to work on next, but it just wasn't in the cards. I guess I am just a little concerned because I don't know how many rehearsals that we will be able to get in before the baby's arrival. I just assume that this is going to happen soon, and don't know how the schedule will be affected when he decides to come on out. Hopefully it wouldn't affect the Tuesday/Thursday rehearsals too much, if at all. I suppose that I will have to just feel things out whenever it does happen. I any event, I am trying my best to play the guitar everyday for at least thirty minutes...you know, just to keep fresh at it. I have stuck to it for the better part of three days, so I feel like I have actually accomplished something....
We have started the final preperations for the baby's arrival at home. Ruby was busy tonight getting the bags together, her's and the baby's. Anxious times are all around for me. I can't wait for this guys to join us out here! I think that he just might like it out here with all of us, you know?! I mean, I would like hanging out with all of us if I was him. Hey, who wouldn't!? LOL! To me, this has been the most nerve racking of the entire nine months. Just waiting. Knowing that Ruby can go into labor at any given time. That is just nerve racking to me. I just hope that I am not too far away when the time comes. Not that I ever intend to, but still. I admit that I get a little nervous just typing about this. Crazy, isn't it?! Well, Ruby is still holding up just fine. Which is very assuring. She has been great. I need to help her out as much as I can. Hell, we need to enjoy the good nights sleep while we can. Those days are numbered! D'oh!
Well, I guess that is all I have for now...later!
Yesterday's rehearsal was a little disappointing to me. We really didn't get to work on "The Professional" at all really. It's all good, I know that we will get to it on Thursday. Still, I wish that we would have taken advantage a little more of that time in there on Tuesday, you know?! I was fairly geared up about being able to hit the song that we have chosen to work on next, but it just wasn't in the cards. I guess I am just a little concerned because I don't know how many rehearsals that we will be able to get in before the baby's arrival. I just assume that this is going to happen soon, and don't know how the schedule will be affected when he decides to come on out. Hopefully it wouldn't affect the Tuesday/Thursday rehearsals too much, if at all. I suppose that I will have to just feel things out whenever it does happen. I any event, I am trying my best to play the guitar everyday for at least thirty minutes...you know, just to keep fresh at it. I have stuck to it for the better part of three days, so I feel like I have actually accomplished something....
We have started the final preperations for the baby's arrival at home. Ruby was busy tonight getting the bags together, her's and the baby's. Anxious times are all around for me. I can't wait for this guys to join us out here! I think that he just might like it out here with all of us, you know?! I mean, I would like hanging out with all of us if I was him. Hey, who wouldn't!? LOL! To me, this has been the most nerve racking of the entire nine months. Just waiting. Knowing that Ruby can go into labor at any given time. That is just nerve racking to me. I just hope that I am not too far away when the time comes. Not that I ever intend to, but still. I admit that I get a little nervous just typing about this. Crazy, isn't it?! Well, Ruby is still holding up just fine. Which is very assuring. She has been great. I need to help her out as much as I can. Hell, we need to enjoy the good nights sleep while we can. Those days are numbered! D'oh!
Well, I guess that is all I have for now...later!
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
"In This Corner" and "The Professional"
Time to touch up on the progress of the band. The band name, for now, remains to be "Below Me", but we are on the search for a new, more fitting name. "Below Me" kind of just came into light as a sort of joke...SNL fans may know what skit this came from. It seems like it is going to be a bit of a process coming up with a name that we all can agree on. There has been a couple of decent names in our brainstorming, but I think we wind up joking around more than anything.
Let's see, since we got the studio space last October, we have mostly just jammed around and come up with "songs", or more like pieces of songs, up until two or three months ago. I guess you can say that it is mostly a improvised creative progress. Over those months we started recording these pieces on an old Tascam four track that I purchased off eBay. After getting about three cassettes full of material, and some research on how to put them on the computer, you know, transferring them over to mp3 format, it seems that we are starting to move forward a bit more. At least we seem to be more organized in getting goals together. After all of this, we got down a small set list of tracks that we were going to work on and try to make them completed songs because right now, they are really songs, just like a riff or two played over and over.
We finally decided on the first track to work on. Right now we call it, "In This Corner." We have our own reasoning for this. It has really come around, too! We added a change to the end from the original "version" that came about strictly by accident...well, more from an Bud Select infused, improvised, jam session late one Friday night. Gotta love that, right!? We kind of liked it, and molded it together with the original version that we already had. Well, so far it has come out pretty damn decent too. Soon, the plan is to get as good as a recorded version that we can do by ourselves in the coming weeks, and then maybe share it with some people, but I think that all depends on how good the recording comes out. You know that we can't have a crappy version out as a first impression...it just wouldn't be a good representation of us!
We also have our second choice for the track that we will work on next ("The Professional" for now) and we probably will start working out details on that next week. For now, we are maintaining the instrumental status for our music, but that can always change. I think that for now, we are just trying to focus on structuring and polishing up the material that we have now. So, like I said, things are starting to progress a tiny bit more, but I think that we are all starting to take this a bit more seriously now, which is a great thing in my mind. I will definitely keep "progress reports" on what happens...a kind of historical documentation for our like musical endeavor...
Let's see, since we got the studio space last October, we have mostly just jammed around and come up with "songs", or more like pieces of songs, up until two or three months ago. I guess you can say that it is mostly a improvised creative progress. Over those months we started recording these pieces on an old Tascam four track that I purchased off eBay. After getting about three cassettes full of material, and some research on how to put them on the computer, you know, transferring them over to mp3 format, it seems that we are starting to move forward a bit more. At least we seem to be more organized in getting goals together. After all of this, we got down a small set list of tracks that we were going to work on and try to make them completed songs because right now, they are really songs, just like a riff or two played over and over.
We finally decided on the first track to work on. Right now we call it, "In This Corner." We have our own reasoning for this. It has really come around, too! We added a change to the end from the original "version" that came about strictly by accident...well, more from an Bud Select infused, improvised, jam session late one Friday night. Gotta love that, right!? We kind of liked it, and molded it together with the original version that we already had. Well, so far it has come out pretty damn decent too. Soon, the plan is to get as good as a recorded version that we can do by ourselves in the coming weeks, and then maybe share it with some people, but I think that all depends on how good the recording comes out. You know that we can't have a crappy version out as a first impression...it just wouldn't be a good representation of us!
We also have our second choice for the track that we will work on next ("The Professional" for now) and we probably will start working out details on that next week. For now, we are maintaining the instrumental status for our music, but that can always change. I think that for now, we are just trying to focus on structuring and polishing up the material that we have now. So, like I said, things are starting to progress a tiny bit more, but I think that we are all starting to take this a bit more seriously now, which is a great thing in my mind. I will definitely keep "progress reports" on what happens...a kind of historical documentation for our like musical endeavor...
Sunday, July 02, 2006
I love Dr. Pepper
Another weekend has come and gone. It wasn't the weekend that I had hoped for. In fact, it was a little akward. I guess that I am just not used to having a full, noisy house. It's all good though, sometimes you have to do what you have to do and put up with things that you aren't fully used to, no big deal really. I just wanted to get that off of my chest.
I actually went out on Saturday night to catch the Sound Team (from Austin, TX) at Walter's On Washington. This isn't my favorite venue in Houston, but a lot of shows are getting booked there right now, so what can I do about that?! Not much. It was a good show. They are coming off the heals of their first major label debut (the band was signed to Capitol Records a while back), so I was anxious to catch the show. So, I decide to leave the house around 10-ish since this is Walter's after all and the Headling Act probably won't go on until Midnight or so, right?! Wrong! I got there just as the band playing says, "This is our last song, Sound Team will be up next," and I was like...what!? Well, it was true. Good thing I got there when I did. I wish I knew the songs so I can post a set list, but sadly, I don't know their new material all that well...actually, I don't know any of their new stuff. It was a good live show though, and will really try to catch them the next time they come through. The plus side of the night was the sound. The sound was very good. The last couple of times, it was either too loud, or something was a bit off, but last night the sound was very good. Props to the sound guys at Walter's! They did a very nice job! It actually makes the whole experience of seeing a show there a half way pleasant one. I am sure that the ear plugs that I had on helped me out, you know?!? Now, if we can just do something about all of the smoke in there, we will be good.
I gotta tell you, it is still akward going out by myself. I mean, I just feel like I am a bit out of place or something. Last night wasn't all that bad, but I am not the person to socialize to strangers and all that stuff. Mike was going to try and make it out there last night, but when I told them that they were going on earlier than expected, understandably, he wouldn't have made it out in time, so he skipped out. I suppose that I would rather feel a little akward catching a show by myself rather than missing out on the the show totally, right!? I would think so. It also helps out when you have a couple of beers before heading out. Saves a little money too. Ha! Ha! I tried out some Skinney Dip (it's a Summer Brew from the makers of Fat Tire), I think that it is fairly tastey too! Once at Walter's I switched to Shiner, it seems that I haven't drank Shiner in sometime, but it was a nice change for me. All in all, it turned out to be a decent Saturday night for me....of course, coming home and catching the South Park movie on the Comedy Central Secret Stash was a added bonus and a great way to end the night! LOL!!
I actually went out on Saturday night to catch the Sound Team (from Austin, TX) at Walter's On Washington. This isn't my favorite venue in Houston, but a lot of shows are getting booked there right now, so what can I do about that?! Not much. It was a good show. They are coming off the heals of their first major label debut (the band was signed to Capitol Records a while back), so I was anxious to catch the show. So, I decide to leave the house around 10-ish since this is Walter's after all and the Headling Act probably won't go on until Midnight or so, right?! Wrong! I got there just as the band playing says, "This is our last song, Sound Team will be up next," and I was like...what!? Well, it was true. Good thing I got there when I did. I wish I knew the songs so I can post a set list, but sadly, I don't know their new material all that well...actually, I don't know any of their new stuff. It was a good live show though, and will really try to catch them the next time they come through. The plus side of the night was the sound. The sound was very good. The last couple of times, it was either too loud, or something was a bit off, but last night the sound was very good. Props to the sound guys at Walter's! They did a very nice job! It actually makes the whole experience of seeing a show there a half way pleasant one. I am sure that the ear plugs that I had on helped me out, you know?!? Now, if we can just do something about all of the smoke in there, we will be good.
I gotta tell you, it is still akward going out by myself. I mean, I just feel like I am a bit out of place or something. Last night wasn't all that bad, but I am not the person to socialize to strangers and all that stuff. Mike was going to try and make it out there last night, but when I told them that they were going on earlier than expected, understandably, he wouldn't have made it out in time, so he skipped out. I suppose that I would rather feel a little akward catching a show by myself rather than missing out on the the show totally, right!? I would think so. It also helps out when you have a couple of beers before heading out. Saves a little money too. Ha! Ha! I tried out some Skinney Dip (it's a Summer Brew from the makers of Fat Tire), I think that it is fairly tastey too! Once at Walter's I switched to Shiner, it seems that I haven't drank Shiner in sometime, but it was a nice change for me. All in all, it turned out to be a decent Saturday night for me....of course, coming home and catching the South Park movie on the Comedy Central Secret Stash was a added bonus and a great way to end the night! LOL!!
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