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Back and Forth to Florida

The last few weeks have had a good amount of variety, which is how I prefer it! Here's what happened: Saturday, March 5, I played a duo gig in Waleska, GA with Bill Graham. Waleska is about an hour and a half north of Atlanta, up in the mountains (up 575, if you're local to the area). This was a New Orleans/Mardi Gras gig at a country club, even though it was four days after Mardi Gras, but whatever. We played jazz tunes for three hours, and it was great fun! Bad GPS almost killed me, though, as this county club was in the back of a gated community, and the directions on my phone stopped about a half mile short of where they should've taken me. I turned around, drove back almost to the entrance, put in the address again, drove to the "wrong" spot again, drove back, got directions, went to a different place, tried GPS again, turned around again, asked somebody else again, got sent to a different place, got directions from someone else, finally got in touch with Bi...

Wazzup

After the big Jamaica trip, we resumed activity the following week at the Miami Boat Show in Miami Beach. It was great to see all of our gear again! The weather was definitely going to be tricky--there were lots of little pop up showers blowing in off the ocean. It wasn't rain so much as mist, and it came and went quickly (we were starting to put away gear as the rain intensified, the DJ behind me looked out and said, "Don't bother. It's almost over"). They decided to tarp the stage after soundcheck just in case. I went for a run. Wednesday afternoon at the beach is pretty quiet. It occurred to me while running back towards the stage that Miami Beach is what the rest of the county thinks is Miami. Past and present residents know it's more like US-1, strip shopping malls, and endless canals as far as the eye can see! The Art Deco thing is still really cool, though. Back to the stage, hanging around, waiting for the gig to start. We were going to play 7:30-9:30,...