On the weekend after my birthday (Nov. 7-9), Sara gave me permission to have a "weekend away" to do whatever I wanted. I've been begging for such a thing for years, but it was hard to make it work in the past. Either we were at a tough phase with one or more of our kids, or unreliable employees kept me from taking consecutive days off. Now that things are somewhat in order, I was able to get away for a little bit.
My dad was out of town for the weekend, so he allowed me to use his home in NE Mpls to do some home recording. I keep writing songs (usually at work), but rarely have the time to record the songs. The recordings I do aren't great quality, but it's a good way for me to hear all the parts together that I hear in my head... and it also helps me from forgetting the songs ever existed.
If you'd like to take a listen to what I recorded, I've posted them at a few places online:
The picture I posted was taken late Saturday night. At this point, I had been under headphones for over 24 hours in the previous 2 days. I was beginning to lose my mind at this point. (not really, but I was really feeling withdrawn from the outside world at this point :) I waited 'til Sunday morning to mix the tracks, but I think I could have benefited from waiting a few days before doing the mixing since my ears were still a little fatigued. I'll have to build up my endurance somehow before I enter into another power recording session again.
It was indeed a lot of fun though, and I hope to make it a yearly tradition. Who knows what next year at this time will look like.
