Help me to help you, Help!!!

I've got to get away from being a crowd pleaser.

The choices of how to have fun this weekend are, for once, plentiful... yet my choosery is compromised by trying to make it the most beneficial for all considered.

Going to Halifax would be fun... and it would be helpful to the store by bringing down stock for Saturday's records sale.

Staying in Fredericton would be fun... there would be musical shenanigans (drunken perhaps) in preparation for the "Piper Perabo/Bachelor Padlock" show/Marc Bragdon send off on February 26th (see below).

Going to Halifax would limit the practice time for the show.

Staying in Fredericton would mean no CD shopping (something I haven't done in a city other than Fredericton since last Easter in Ottawa).

Going to Halifax would be spending time with Mandy.

Staying in Fredericton would be spending time sleeping a little. (maybe)

I'll have my answer tomorrow.

BACHELOR PADLOCK RULES!!!
as does Piper Perabo...

Piper Perabo

Choosing between your children

I don't want you to worry.

I know I've been spending a lot more time with your sister this last little while, but it's because she's just getting on her feet, taking steps... getting stronger every day. But that's no reason for you to worry... or act up.

Yes, it's true. The Backstreet Records blog has been getting most of my less-than-ample free time lately. Even then, I've fallen behind on it as well.

Add to that writing music reviews for Exclaim, reading submissions for The Fiddlehead... all the good times rolled into one ten day long week, plus end of month data crunching at "work" work. Makes it hard to keep up with that reality show on at midnight Tuesdays on Global where designers and chefs are sent into the woods to make it better for the animals... or whatever it is they're actually doing.

The rest of the month is more or less spread out wide and far with equal divisions of fun and work.

Sue is coming this weekend for a reading, so we'll get a chance to catch up a bit.
There's a record show in Halifax on the 19th which may be reason enough to take a spin down... depends...
The most nebulous part is what to work on for Vetch...

They've retained me as a kind of "press agent," the upshot of which is that, for the immediate future I have to track down spaces and places to spread the word on the CD and upcoming performances... I'm slowed down by not having a working press kit to send... need to put one together... need materials... need quotes... neeeeeeed another vacation, hmmm?

Well I'll, er... get back to it, then.