Been about a month since I last posted. Since then things have happened
Went to go see Death Grips! Zach Hill and Stephan Burnett put on an incredible hour-long-non-stop performance. I mean they did not stop for more than 3 seconds between songs for the whole hour. Absolutely mind bending. Went in exhausted and came out with enough energy that I walked three miles and went dancing at a Soul/Funk night at a bar called The Unicorn.
Went to go See Jherick Bischoff play with a whole orchestra at the Moore Theater. It was beautiful and incredible and I wish I had dressed up for the show.
The most notable weekend we had we drove to Vancouver, Canada to play a show. I was filling in for the drummer in Dylan's band who refused to go to Canada. The weekend went like this:
Friday
Leave Seattle after work.
Get stopped for not knowing enough info about where we were going in Canada.
Get grilled by border patrol.
Get released.
Reach Tracy's house in Vancouver where we are greeted with beer and Shepard's Pie.
Open the show.
Watch Nukem Nice and Fighter Jet play.
Play a closing set for 2nd round of people just showing up.
Load out and leave the venue.
Have Kevin drop us at Lucy's 24 hour Diner.
Eat a Mac & Cheese Meatloaf Sandwich and an Uncle Momo burger.
Walk back to Tracy's and pass out on the living room floor at 530 am.
Saturday
Wake up at 10am to a huge breakfast in Tracy's kitchen.
Leave Vancouver.
Cross the border suspiciously quick.
Stop in Bellingham to have lunch with Glynis and her boyfriend Jason.
Drive back to Seattle.
Go to a dinner party on the floor of Mariana's house.
Sunday
Work
Dylan says he doesn't feel well.
Made dinner with our couchsurfer, Alyssa, in town from San Jose for the night.
I start feeling sick.
Dylan and I swap out camping on the bathroom floor with a stomach virus.
We stayed home the next day and missed the first day of a new job. Dylan's band leader Brian offered me a job as an interior housepainter for a 50% raise from what I was earning at Metrodog. Larry, my boss at Metrodog was super accommodating and gave me a week off to try it out and I agreed to come back and work the Xmas-New Years Rush. I didn't want to leave them short staffed during the holidays because they've been nothing but wonderful to me. The painting job is longer hours but the pay is better and I get weekends off which I haven't in forever. The hours fly by as opposed to crawl by at Metrodog so I don't mind working 830-630 or later.
Dylan kind of got a new job. He's doing the same construction job but he's not working through the hiring agency anymore so instead of $12 he earns $15 an hour.
Xmas was uneventful because I had to work though I cooked a duck with my coworker on Boxing Day and that was delicious. New Years we went out dancing and had fun doing that. I walked home at 430 in the morning to find the door locked with the bath running. I called dylan's phone a number of times and banged on the door to no answer so I assumed Dylan was in the shower. After half an hour with no change I started to worry he had fallen asleep in the bath and that the tub was going to overflow. An hour later I got scared thinking he was dead in the tub. two hours later I got angry and went on a hunt for how to break into the apartment. I found a 24' ladder in a neighbor's yard, hauled it over the fence and propped it up against our kitchen window. I had to defrost the locking mechanism because they were frozen shut then climbed up and into our apartment to find Dylan asleep in bed with the tub running and draining. He woke up with a "What's up buddy?" I cursed him then went and took the ladder back over the neighbor's fence. Went to bed and woke up to go to work again.
Since then I've left Metrodog completely though I was told I would be still be expected to show up to work functions and parties.
Dylan's running in two bands now. Feel Good Band of the Year (the cover band with Brian) and Take Powell. He seems happy in both. We're searching for a practice space so I can use the drums I bought and we can play music together again.
January is supposed to be the most depressing month in Seattle where everyone holes up and disappears. Hibernation so to speak. We're taking our Vitamin D supplements to combat that and invested in a HUGE craigslist free TV so we can watch movies and play video games again. We've just signed up for a Bouldering class tomorrow morning and we're planning on being regulars there so we can get some kind of regular exercise.
Things are going okay here. Having good jobs with good money and free time helps. Hopefully we'll start doing things again now that we've got some.
