Well, I guess it's been a really long while, hasn't it? How 'bout a wrap up and a catch up?

Well, the tour is over and it was a lot of fun if not perhaps as financially lucrative as it might be. Great houses.

I met some of the greatest people I've ever worked with, my only regret is that I didn't get to know many of them better. Oh, and also that the video they made of our show was done at the beginning of the run. I watched it tonight.

Great people. Brianna, OtherDon, Julie... Ross... Scott... so many. I can't name them all but those are an important few. Those names mean nothing to any of you anyway. Miss 'em already.

Even some of the crap movies we watched on the bus...

We finished our tour in Rapid City SD to sold out 2000+ size crowds ina great house with a wonderful tech crew (complimenting our own.

Then the company party, then a repeat of the drunken hotel karaoke of the previous night. We rule! My "Delilah" made Tom Jones sweat somewhere. Who am I kidding, he's always sweating.

Then Rachel, Ross, and I piled in the waiting car at the drop off in Omaha to drive to Kansas City for Rachel's flight today at 9:30. I drove Ross to Wichita and then came here...
Burns, Kansas. The farm. A little more "farm"y than I remember, but.. it's been a year and things are being remodeled. I drove up to see a broken down beaten up old car in the driveway, next to the other, less beaten old car. I thought my parents had fallen on much harder times and not mentioned it. No, it was my little nephew's. He, who is now 18, I still see as 9, maybe 12. Anyway...

Funniest thing since I've been home, I wish I was making this up. To preface, my mom is nearly deaf in one ear and right now has an ear infection in the other.

ME: Mom, what's wrong with the TV (sound very distant, fuzzy)

MOM: What?

ME: What's wrong with the sound on the TV? (Pointing now to strange sounds coming from Flintstones Christmas Carol)

MOM: Oh, that started to go out a few months ago.

ME: How do you stand it?

MOM: What?

ME: How do you stand it?

MOM: The closed captioning still works, so it doesn't bother me.

ME: How does Dad stand it?

At this point she smiled and walked away.

ALSO ... Got a job offer yesterday, literally as I was stepping off of the tour bus, to do "Annie Get Your Gun" in NC with Gary Sandy (That's Andy Travis from WKRP fro those of you not up on pop culture.)

Trouble is, the offer is for very little money and it starts January 7. That cuts into my home time. Also, I'd have to change my UPTA slot to Monday, and I wanted Sunday for a reason to make hitting the callbacks easier. Don't know what to do. Still dealing with the effects of the Richmond debaucle, paying for a useless apartment in a city we aren't living in anymore and in which there is no viable work to be had. What the hell? I'm hoping the Christmas spirit will hit the Scrooge who stuck me in this situation and it'll go away. Or other things in the works will take hold. Anyone with January work for decent $ is encouraged to contact me NOW.

I hope everyone is somewhere they want to be with people they want to be with tonight, or will be soon. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the world.

So, any questions?