Yesterday was particularly unlucky for over a million airline passengers, who found themselves in the middle of an hours long, nation-wide ground stop. Ultimately, the explanation for the shut down was determined to be antiquated equipment that was overloaded. On a non-holiday Friday. Yes, that seems odd to me, but I am not a conspiracy theorist. Glad I don't have to be traveling anywhere on the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday week.
Or, if we should choose to travel, it will be in the RoadTrek so Murphy and Stella can be with us. But, we don't have anything planned (well, we do play to do Thanksgiving with Steph and Dan)... with the unusual wet fall we've had, there are places within a couple hours of us that had severe damage from flooding, including some of the scenic roads in northern Arizona. Less desire to go west because California is requiring anyone traveling with animals to have a vet health certificate due to the screw worm situation. And, that didn't happen on Friday the 13th. Snow is predicted over the the next few days for the higher elevations in northern Arizona.
So, I don't see any travel in our near term. Except for gigs for the Hip Replacements today and tomorrow. Speaking of which, good news for today's gig: the weather looks to be cooperative for us to perform outside and for vendors to be set up, and Banner Health (who is putting this on) people will then move indoors for their award presentations. Which means we don't have to provide a PA for them, which means we can tear down and load out immediately after we're done playing. Which means way less idle time for us. Last I heard, we'll be playing for about an hour and 15 minutes. Easy.
So, for some soothing, here is an image of the first light of the day coming under the clouds over South Mountain...
Murphy and I were out before the sun came up - that light on the clouds lasted a very short time, less than 3 minutes, constantly changing. That was the peak of it. Timing. Lucky. Because it is Saturday, the 14th. :-)
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