Sometimes, the best weekends are those that I disregard my to-do list and just see what happens. This week was hectic, not bad but just there wasn’t any down time. To recap the highlights: I was flying solo at my full-time production gig (that’s a full story in itself); filed a police report after seeing something odd and finding a woman’s purse thrown out a window of a car that had no intention of stopping; my neighbor’s mom had a medical emergency and I was at home and assisted in the most minor of ways (borrowed my phone) although after seeing the woman about 10 minutes later, I’d wished I was just nosy enough to go outside when her granddaughter first borrowed my phone, I probably would have gotten help there faster than she did by waiting for her sister to arrive. I was so glad to get through the end of Friday and just go home.

So after what I’d consider to be a total weird sh*t week, I needed time to have a kick-back weekend. We joined friends for dinner Friday night. Saturday, although this was on my big to-do list, I hadn’t specifically decided to do it this weekend… we bought my new home studio system, with the Mbox 2 Mini as the foundation (also, perfect as the foundation to my road kit.) I’d been holding out on buying that for nearly 2 years, because I do have a version of Audition hooked up to my gear, but most of the time I’m able to record in my work studio and I’m happy with the sound there. But, I’ve been getting more projects or long-term clients, and with my plans to work on audiobooks I’d rather have it on my own equipment at my fingertips when I need access to it and can work on it. Saturday afternoon I spent tweaking my studio, and while yes it is work it really was an enjoyable project. Andy and I bummed around and played a card game we’re infatuated with, Bohnanza. Today was like a repeat of yesterday. Went back to GC to get an iLok for ProTools, so I can use it on my laptop or the iMac, and tweaked the soundproofing on my studio. Then we reverted to the geeks that we both truly are, and played video games all afternoon, caught up on last week’s episode of The Office, and are ready to call it a day. After the strange week I’ve had, I can really appreciate a day (or 2) like today.