John’s back home now, he spent the last three days at his family reunion thing outside of Cleveland.  I’m glad he’s back ‘cuz I was bored shitless and the cats were bouncing off the walls all weekend too.  Watching baseball isn’t nearly as much fun when you’re all by yourself!  Of course today’s game was nothing to cheer about, but at least it means they’re coming back to Chicago and will have the home-field advantage.  Speaking of home, I’m very glad to report that Daddy’s back in San Antonio now after spending many weeks in a rehab center in Sacramento recovering from his surgery.  He’s pretty worn out from the travelling, but he sounds very relieved to be outta there and back where he should be.  So, things are good.  I have another new tune or two brewing in the kettle and hopefully will get them demo’ed this week, and maybe my new guitar will arrive?  Hope so anyway.  I can’t wait for Rian to get home from touring; I’m getting antsy to start recording that 4th album!  Hopefully he’ll dig the new tunes and we won’t have to wait much longer.  God knows what he has in mind for me this time. I’d love to record at Electrical again but Steve’s a busy man so we’ll have to wait and see if that’s even possible.