The Eagle Has Landed (or: Your Goose Is Cooked)

Just got back from patrolling some of the nearby grocery stores for pre-cooked Thanksgiving dinner deals.  The winner:  Meijer.

For $30 I get a 12lb turkey, 4lbs of mashed potatoes, 2lbs of gravy, 1lb of cranberry salad and a dozen rolls.  I think there's some stuffing in there too, I forget but I guess I better look into that.  Anyway, that works for me.  By the time I got done buying roasting pans and everything else I would have needed I would have far exceeded the $30, so as long as its cooked well and tasty its all good.  I'll probably pick up a few other odds and ends, depending on what the kid wants,

I also extended an invite to Ed, our guitarist.  I was talking to Brian and I guess Ed doesn't have plans for Thanksgiving so I left him a message inviting him over for the day.  Its just me and the little guy, so its not like he'd be imposing.  Plus thats an awful lot of food I just ordered there, so someone has to help us eat it.

Brian gave me a call at work yesterday.  He had told us last time we got together that he found some places with open mic nights in our area, and I guess he went and checked the one place out last weekend and it was decent.  Its not far from me, maybe 25 minutes, and I think its Sunday nights.  He said it was pretty low-key, not many musicians (at least when he was there) and everyone else in the bar just doing their own thing.  He said it seemed pretty non-hostile, every song got a polite round of applause and there was no jeering.  So I'm going to call this place in a bit and find out what time it starts and head up there tomorrow night.  It will be my first time ever playing in front of people if I wind up going. 

Bri also said that if I did decide to go to let him know and he might try to get ahold of Ed and head up there and join me.  It would be like us playing out, in a sense.  I think these guys are trying hard to break me in, at least thats what it seems like, so I'm willing to give it a shot.  Well, most likely after downing a few shots.  :)

So we'll see how that goes.  If these guys meet me up there we can play through our songs just for kicks, and if I go it alone I can try to get in on some songs, hopefully they will play stuff I know.  If not, as long as they tell me the chords I can try to fake it.  I guess there was a lack of bass players there last time too.  I don't know if thats the norm or if it was just that night, but if things go well I might get some decent time in.  If I wind up going I'll blog how it went.