Back at it...

Drove a million miles this week. Our workshop in Vermont was great. Really nice people up there and a pretty drive up Highway 7. We were given the use of an apartment right on Lake Champlain (sp?). Beautiful views. Also, Burlington is a nice town, in the summer at least. It's butt cold for seven months of the year, bearable for three, and really nice for the remaining two. We hit one of the two. After the workshops were over I went thrifting and scored a ton of old sheet music with ukulele arrangements in them. No uke sightings in Burlington proper though. It's a sad town when you can't even find one ukulele. A smudge on the record of an otherwise decent city. Shape up Burlington!

Overdid the teaching this week. Ten hours of workshops on Saturday and Sunday, five hours of privates on Monday followed by a four hour drive to Boston, sleep and then another workshop Tuesday night. After which, I had a massive panic attack due to exhaustion and haven't really recovered fully yet. That shit can just sneak up on you. It's weird.

On the upside, Boston was fun as usual. We got to stay with our friend Marilee, which is always the coolest and she turned me on to a great music shop on Mass. Ave called Sandy's where I bought... (drum roll please!) ...a tenor guitar! Four strings and all monster baby! I've really wanted one of these things since I picked up the uke. I just strung it up today and it sounds great. Check out a pic here. They also had some sweet ukuleles in Sandy's, but, alas, the budget is not unlimited.

Bed now. More in the morning. It's good to be home.