Tres Gique: Weekend of Win

I mentioned a while ago in this post that Tres Gique, the band I started back in 2007, is in the process of re-inventing itself and would be getting together every month or so for regular practice sessions. We had the first one this last weekend.

Wow.

I'm going to skip right to the bottom line. As of Saturday things were still a bit iffy: we sounded like our usual selves: a bunch of filkers who get together the day before a con to practice. But we had fun, and were together enough by Saturday evening that Joyce decided to hit Starving Musician on the way home and get an electric bass. From the first song on Sunday, we sounded like a band. Awesome and win.

Like, wow.

You'll find the links for the weekend here. Start with Sunday. Heck with that; start at the end with Millennium's Dawn[mp3] [ogg].

(More detail to follow, later today and tomorrow.)

Tres Gique: tag transition

From now on, I'll be using the short tag tg on posts that refer to Tres Gique in its current configuration (Tres Gique 2.0). I'll leave the older tag, tres-gique, to refer to the old version of the group. (Added: I may also use the long tag for things like gig and album announcements.)

One reason for doing this is to make it clearer when I use "tg-" as a prefix on subtopic tags, like tg-weekend.

NoNoWriMo progress

I said in this post that I would be trying to carve out an hour a day for music and/or writing. I haven't been keeping careful track, but given that Tres Gique put in 7 or 8 hours' worth of practice time over the weekend, I've been doing ok on average.

Most of this week has been spent splitting up the recordings of the practice sessions -- not too creative, I'm afraid -- and writing up summaries and a technical report. I've gotten a little writing done on drafts in the River; I'll try to get at least one of those posted tomorrow.

I'm still finding it deeply weird that I seem to have slipped into the role of relationship consultant ("counselor" is too strong, I think) for geeks and people in love with geeks.