Yesterday was a lazy, stay inside, cold, dreary, rainy day. It started raining in Dallas Friday afternoon and didn't quit until this morning. Dallas received somewhere between nine and twelve inches of precipitation and several areas experienced flooding. I'm not complaining though; if any place ever needed rain it was Texas. We have been in a drought since last summer and, until the rains hit, we had seen more than our fair share of wildfires across the state due to the extremely dry conditions.
Saturday night we had a blast at Hank's in McKinney. The loading in and out in the rain wasn't very pleasant, but the show itself was great. We had a packed house and everyone in attendance was there to have fun. There were plenty of people dancing in front of the stage, and at one point on the tables, until the manager made them get down. The inclement weather had absolutely no effect on the crowd and that night we played well beyond closing time.
The only disappointment of the night was that Nick never showed up. Apparently his buddies drug him out to several bars in the Los Colinas area of Dallas, some thirty miles from McKinney, and they refused to give him a ride to Hank's. Either that or Nick tied one on. He did look pretty road-worn when I saw him earlier that day and I wouldn't be surprised if he just ran out of energy.
Slaton, however, did show. He had driven up from Austin that afternoon and got a room at the Holiday Inn across the parking lot from Hank's. A lot of my neighbors (the ones who like me) also came out, as well as a lot of people I hadn't seen in quite some time from the North Dallas area. Even the Commerce crowd was well represented Saturday night, making the hour-long drive in the heavy rains to come and see us.
Kathryn and I got home a little after two and went straight to bed. With no kids in the house we actually got to sleep in late yesterday. We had a large breakfast in the morning and then started planning our Sunday evening meal. Kathryn wanted my spicy shrimp and pasta, so I went to Kroger's and bought all the ingredients.
I called my mom around noon to see about picking up the kids, but she said the flooding in her neighborhood was so bad that we would have to wait. Sometime around 4:00 there was a slight break in the weather and I drove to our meeting place off the toll way and picked up the triplets. I got back to the house an hour later and ate a fantastic shrimp dinner while Kathryn fed the kids ravioli.
After dinner I went to the YMCA and worked out. When I got home I helped Kathryn get the kids in bed and then made my way to my own bed. I read for a few hours before falling asleep.
Today it's back to business as usual, working on booking and taking care of the day to day band stuff. The rain has finally stopped and I heard it is supposed to get up to around seventy this afternoon. Tomorrow another cold front is moving in and they say the rest of the week will be cold again.