Wayne D's Blog

There were a few new shows that looked interesting but having been burned in the past I try to stay away from shows in their first season. The ones I like invariably get cancelled and I end up disappointed. The late start and my lack of subscribing to a newspaper that supplies a printed TV guide also means I never know when a new show will premiere. I have been watching Californication but it has went downhill in the past few episodes and now I find it disapppointing. I watched a few episodes of Blood Ties but it didn't really grab me and I can't keep track of when it's on. Chuck seems pretty good from the one episode I saw. Now I just have to remember when it's on. I also thought the first episode of Reaper looked good but I managed to miss the second one.

Election day is Wednesday, I think I'm in a new riding but I'm not sure. I'm not sure our local politicians have done a very good job campaigning, there aren't even any lawn signs on our street. One very nice lady did come to the door campaigning for the Conservative candidate in the riding but I haven't seen hide nor hair of the others. I don't watch TV news anymore and haven't been following the campaign so I'm not sure who I should vote for. I guess I'm not a very good voter. I do know that I am going to vote against the harebrained Mixed Member Proportional voting system that the governement is trying to foist on us.


I got to conduct the Argonotes yesterday. Our regular conductor was out of town at a wedding and he let me take over the band. It was fun but stressful. When the word comes from on high via the headset you have 10-30 seconds notice to get a herd of cats all going the right at the same time. Then we play for anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes and then it back to being perched on the pointy stick. I really shouldn't call the band a herd of cats, they were very charitable to me, their neophyte conductor and we sounded really good. I also learned what to not do the next time, if there is a next time. Thanks Steve.

This month's emusic.com downloads were a bit short, I left it late and didn't realize my downloads were going to refresh so early, I only managed to download 28 of my 40 songs before it reset to forty. The 28 I did get included Paul McCartney's Memory Almost Full and Leigh Nash's Blue on Blue. Thanks for the recommendation Chris.