Whew! What a week it’s been. I’ve finally been able to sit for a minute and post. Most of what little free time I’ve had lately was spent putting together a presentation for my dad to use when he’s visiting different places. Spent a day or two recording and editing the narration then the rest of the time adding music and then synchronizing about 80 slides to the soundtrack. The tough part was having to get familiar with two different programs, one for audio and the other for the presentation. Thanks to Kevin for loaning me his Lexicon Omega so I could connect a nice mic to my PC. Also thanks to Kyle for loaning me a mic more suited to vocals. Most all my microphones are specific to percussion. Now that I have a good handle on how to do this sort of thing fairly easily, next time won’t take as much effort.

Fun stuff last Thursday night hanging out with friends at Maria Bonita. Despite the poor service, the food was good and the overall atmosphere was nice change from the other hangouts in town. If they can just get the wait staff to step it up - SEVERAL notches, that place will flourish. I was only going to have a drink or two then head home but it turned into dinner. I did manage to head out by 8:30 though so I could continue working on the aforementioned presentation project. I finally got that finished and burned to CD and DVD late Friday night. I even managed to squeeze in watching the F1 qualifying at the season opening race in Australia.

Yep, Formula One is back on again. My favorite driver - Fernando Alonso, has switched from the Renault team over to McLaren/Mercedes this season. Ultimately in the race he finished 2nd. His teammate and rookie Lewis Hamilton did well also finishing in 3rd. Kimi Raikkonen who moved to Ferrari FROM McLaren/Mercedes finished first.The Ferrari package is always a strong one. McLaren/Mercedes looks to have a competitive package this year after performing very poorly last season. Renault, my favorite team for the past few years seems to be lagging in performance here at the start. Hopefully, they’ll have some upgrades to their package and improve quickly.

Saturday night I went out to dinner in Huntsville then came back to Decatur to watch my friends Bishop Black play at Simp McGhee’s. Ran into plenty of people I knew. I didn’t have my camera on me but hopefully some of my other camera toting friends will send me some of the shots they took - at least they said they would…

Weekend’s over with. Hope everyone did something memorable coz tomorrow’s Monday and you know what that means.