Monday, February 26, 2007

Had a rather lovely weekend. Just got back from a couple of days in Edmonton, visiting with my cousin Nathan and his wife, Heidi, and their new baby boy, Gideon. It was a bit of a spur-of-the-moment thing; we were tossing the idea around last week, and then happened to get a call from Heidi on Friday--she was in Red Deer for the afternoon, and wanted to know if Steph could come have coffee with her--and we got to talking, one thing led to another, and there you go. Good times were had by all, including Theo, who was a wonderful gentleman the whole time.

We happened to time it up for the big February birthday celebration weekend. Well, okay, it's really just that Nathan and Heidi's birthdays are both in February, and so they combine the dinners (sort of like what our families do for Steph and I--and I have to say, even though our birthdays are in different months, we're closer together, so that makes us cooler). Good times; got over to Uncle Bob and Aunt Audrey's, and my cousin Joel was in town to (with his new girlfriend, no less), so it was good times. A rousing game of Cranium was had. By the way, if you ever want to just play a game, please don't play one at a Carroll family get-together. We're just way too competitive. We even were competitive over who got to read the card to the other team. Ridiculous, really, but hey, that's us.

Interestingly, Nathan just finished recording an album of country-western music (not "new" country or "alt-country," but real cowboy-at-the-back-fence kind of music, that I actually quite enjoyed), and we got to hear the fully mastered version along with him for the first time. Pretty good work. Some of his pre-mastered stuff is here if you want to check it out. He's throwing a CD release party in March, so I might head back up to Edmonton for that.

There was going to be substantially more to this posting, but I just realized that it's close to 11:30, and I just don't have the chutzpah to go much farther. Besides, I anticipate tomorrow being pretty uneventful, so I have to save something, right? Fuller report tomorrow, then, and a hearty goodnight for now. See you tomorrow.