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| WEDNESDAY
March 10, 1999
Bit By The Flu Bug
I woke up this morning feeling really sick. It seemed I had succumbed to the dreaded flu virus. I helped my wife get the kids ready for school the best I could. When my wife left with our younger son I made myself some echinacea/golden seal tea, took two aspirin and went to bed. I was pretty much asleep until about 1pm in the afternoon. I worked on my websites a bit and checked email, then I left to pick up my older son from school. The latter part of the afternoon was spent shopping with my son at a local sporting goods store, then picking up my younger son from school. At home, I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to rest up for the gig I had to do later on at night. But I ended up preparing dinner for the family and helped my older son with his computer game. The gig at The Catamaran was great overall. There was a lot of people, I generally performed well, and lots of folks we knew showed up. However, my solo on Sing, Sing, Sing was below standards, and I was not too happy with it. Also, the crowd didn't seem to get into it as in the past and I didn't get much of a reaction. It made me feel very uneasy and I felt as if I had failed myself and the band. I was beginning to think that maybe the band was jealous of me because I had a great article about myself in a local Swing Magazine, and maybe they didn't help me along or seem enthusiastic about my solo, which sometimes can carry over to the audience. I hope not. Any kind of article about anyone of us in the band should be welcomed. But you know how jealousies go. People are human and are bound to get jealous about one thing or another. I just hope that's not what's happening here, because that can cause tension in the band. Anyway, I'd like to think that I didn't
do well simply because I was sick with flu symptoms, but the fact
remains that I still did not perform well, and this hangs over me
like a dark cloud. The problem is.... what next?
This could be like an ongoing slump for me, a bad omen!
I don't know what to do and I hope I do better tomorrow at Music City.
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