Wayne D's Blog

Boy am I tired today. Yesterday was both Argos Fan Day at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus and my cousin's 25th wedding anniversary in Elmwood Ontario. The director of the Argonotes decided that it would be a good idea for us to get together for at least one rehearsal so we booked the Mist theatre as a rehearsal space. The only problem was that we had to be there at 10:00 a.m. to get the practise in before the start of Fan Day. Coupled with the long trek out to Mississauga it meant getting up early on a Saturday morning. The main purpose of the rehearsal was to try out some new music for inclusion in our repertoire. We had decided to try to do some recording so it was necessary to get there a little bit early to get the microphones set up and hook the mixer up to the Macbook we were using to record the session. I've decided that my next computer will be a Mac, I just haven't decided which model to get yet. I've used Audacity to do recording before, this time we were using Garage Band which looked like a a nice package.

During our rehearsal/recording session I had to try to put out a metaphorical work fire that had flared up as approached the turn in for U of T Mississauga. It eventually involved three people and meant that I didn't get a good picture of the Argo's cheerleaders on field routine. After meeting up with my family, having a burger and playing a few tunes at Fan Day it was back in the care for the ride home. Pictures for the day are on my Flickr. A quick change and it was back in the car for the two and a half hour trip to Elmwood. There was square dancing, drinks, food. The kids played in the park outside the community centre until it got dark. Then it was back in the car for the trip home. We pulled into the driveway at two thirty and I collapsed into bed. I had stupidly decided to call a meeting of Inspyre for this morning after church which meant that we had to drag ourselves out of bed and off to church.

Why might we Wii? In the middle of the rehearsal my wife called to say that one of my collegues had called to say that he was in a store and they had ten Wii's. He had called to see if he wanted him to buy one for us. I haven't heard back from him yet, but I may now be the proud owner of a Wii.