Reid was saved two or three times today. It was amazing! First he got a completely random and strange email from a stranger saving his soul and then he got a tract later on in the day. Haha. It was a good laugh. At least his soul is twice as clean as the rest of us.
Archive for February, 2008
After doing 100 pushups for the first time in my life yesterday, I am sore. Duh. It feels good though too. I am confident that I will be able to keep up my workout schedule on the road. There is a lot of time where we don’t have to do much, and I remind myself that I want to stay healthy and fit on the road. My goal is to be able to do 200 pushups by the end of the tour. I might be a big beefcake when I come back to CO. Mmmm beef.
After a great night in Manhattan, KS a very nice family agreed to let the whole band stay with them in their wonderful house a few miles outside of Manhattan. Apparently this is the home of THE official Wizard of Oz museum, and they have all sorts of cultural events connected to wizard of oz, such as Oztoberfest. It’s a very nice small town. Today is our day off. After driving 7ish hours here to make it in time to play that night, we were all pretty beat.
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So I’m posting this from the backstage of a really small venue on my iPhone. There are probably lots of typing errors, which might mean that this post will be next to impossible to decipher, but alas.I just got back from eating one of the most amazing and special meals I’ve ever eaten. My good friends Ryan and Paul made the whole band an amazing tilapia tour kickoff dinner. It was incredible.I think that there are 67 days of tour left. I cannot be more excited. Although it is bittersweet leaving he for that long with such amazing film and friends, I think this tour will be absolutely monumenal in its importance in establishing us as a band.We just headlined a show at the boulder theater last night. It was a great way to kick off the tour. I think there was around 300 people so ended up sticking around to watch us, which was super encouraging to say the least. Paper bird, ian Cooke and the world romantic all were fantastic too. Since this keyboard is kind of hard to type on, I will have to say more about everything later. My next post will take place on the road.
I should have taken over-sleeping an extra hour the other day a lot more seriously. It turned into 3 hours yesterday, and 9 hours today. With a sad heart, I have decided to give up the experiment for now. I am going on tour for just over 2 months, and I leave in a week. I cannot afford to be feeling sleep deprived when playing on stage.
To be honest, it’s really surprising to me that I was not able to make the adjustment. I don’t think I underestimated how hard it would be, although I didn’t enjoy it at all. I thought I was making real progress yesterday, because I was feeling more clear-headed than normal, but it must have been the 3 extra hours that I slept.
It’s a great lesson for me, so honestly, it’s bittersweet at worst. I have learned that I need more self-discipline. It’s really clear. I think before this, I thought of myself as a pretty disciplined person, but it became apparent that it’s just not the case. I have some discipline, but I need more. In that sense, I look forward to the weeks ahead, and my quest to become more disciplined.
Once I feel I am ready again, and I have some more time to be really flexible with, I will attempt to switch to Polyphasic Sleeping again. I already have a few ideas of what I will be doing different.
I have absolutely insane friends.
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First things first. I posted yesterday (which I am not really sure actually happened because of my radical change of perception of time–but I’m already getting ahead of myself) about sleeping polyphasically. I meant to post every day about my experience with it, but alas–I wasn’t able to get this blog up in time. Here we are in any case. Here’s what I was rambling about: