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Anyone who read my blog yesterday could tell I wasn’t in the best of moods. Good news is they’ve laid the footings so they have to wait for it to dry. So probably no big noisy machinery today. I still may go out today, because it worked better for some reason. I did eight pages. The most I’ve done on this book in awhile.
I took the Boise headset that Jon got me, that my friend, and fellow writer Marella Sands had recommended for the air plane rides. The headset cuts out a lot of the noise. But it’s a Boise so it also has amazingly good sound quality. I took my new very light weight portable that Jon and I shopped for yesterday so I would have as light a weight as possible to lug around on tour, and I took the headset, and some music.
The music was a happy accident. I was listening to our local hard rock station, because that suited my mood. I heard a song, by a band called Thornely. I liked the song, and since I was at a store that had both music and books, and a table to write on, I looked for the album. It’s their debut album, and it just plan kicks. Kicks ass, kicks butt, kicks whatever. The lyrics are great, the vocals are crisp, clean, and well done. The instrumental parts were well done, but not overly done. My main complaint about a lot of the harder bands is that they let the instruments get in the way of the vocals. If you like that, great, but I want to hear the band sing. Thornely can sing. The album saved my bacon yesterday, and my mood.