Various Things Regarding Friends

One of the things I miss about Edmonton is having Randy as a local call. I can't even guess how many times I've called him self-indulgently to play a new song or riff. And no matter what he was doing, he'd listen and give me feedback. Having an audience helps tremendously in developing songs. These days, I have a new local call audience, but I hate infringing on her. Students hardly have enough time for themselves. Yestreen, however, she heard two of my newest songs and liked them. (Sun Fade and Weight On Our Shoulders.) Soon enough I'll have these recorded and/or videos posted so you can like them too.

Tomorrow night, two of my closest friends will be visiting for a week. I'm excited. I have bachelored my fridge with beer; presently, there are 24 regular cans and 2 supercans of Kokanee, a Granville Island Taster's 12, and a lone bottle of Red Stripe. Expect a full report next week on which - if any - survived.

And finally, last week, one of my closest friends won the lottery. This friend is the one not yet accounted for in this post. It's ironic that at one point in my Great Big Project, some characters were supposed to win the lottery, but I changed that with the thought of the unlikely odds against them. The ironic part is, of course, that this friend is a huge part of this huge project. The benefit for me is that he's going to have a lot more free time in which to tackle his part of it. Now it's really up to me to get my balls rolling.