It's odd - some days I feel like I'm becoming a great sound guy. I feel like there isn't a mixing problem or EQing conondrum that I can't solve. Then there are nights where after the performance, I say to myself "I should have (insert what I should have done here.).", and then spend the rest of the night beating myself up and rehashing every mistake I made, or thought I made. Take tonight, for instance. We had a band come in for Celebrate Recovery. The lead guitarist had two sends for his instrument - one a clean signal, the other with his pedal effects mixed in. He mentioned to me that he usually "rode the clean signal above the wet one.", to which I nodded and filed away in my memory. The entire time I was mixing, I kept soloing up his (two) guitar lines and thinking "They both sound like crap.", which they did. One was obviously the wet signal, but the other one, the dry signal, should have sounded a lot better than it did. (If you've ever heard a guitar amp being overdriven, you can imagine the sound.) I heard this during the rehearsal, but at the time, it didn't seem like so big of a deal. The performance was good, but not great. And afterwards, I thought "Why didn't I just yank the wet signal and run the not-as-badly-crappy dry signal through the mains?". The solution always seems so simple after the fact; hindsight, I guess. But it's frustrating. I suppose that's what practice is for - so you can detect crap like that quickly. That all being said, even Don Morris was pleased with the sound tonight, or at the very least, didn't think it sucked, which is a plus.

I've also recently become fed up with the English writing system of left-to-write glyphs. This has invariably led to big smears on my hands whenever I write, because my hand drags through whatever marking substance I've been using. Hence, I have decided to teach myself to write right-to-left, and mirror-reversed. I won't put up with this right-handed-dominated writing system anymore!

That is all.