2/5/09: On The Way To Greenville!

Hey everyone, hope you're all doing well. Man, it has been bone-chilling cold the past 4 days here in Nashville. It's gotten down to around 15 degrees every night, OUCH… You'd think me being from the north I'd be used to the cold, but no- my blood must've thinned out.

As you can see, I am spreading my journals out a bit more these days. That way, I have more to write about and hopefully make things a little more interesting.

This week I haven't had a ton of stuff going on. Unfortunately, we've all been sick. My band, manager, and myself have all been battling whatever it is that's floating around in the air. Fortunately, most of us have conquered it and are feeling much better.

I've had a fairly productive week so far. The band and I have been cutting tracks and let me tell you, I am pumped! I can't wait for everyone to hear it. The sound of the new stuff that I'm writing is really exciting. When you write songs, you try to imagine what they are going to evolve into and what they will sound like within the walls of a studio. To hear your song be brought to life by all the talented musicians playing their hearts out in the recording booths is very special. Pretty much any song that I write or co-write becomes a child to me. Of course I've written some not so good ones along the way, but that's expected. For the most part, I couldn't be more proud.

I'm not sure if y'all are up on cell phones or not, but I just got the new G1 phone and I am LOVING IT. I haven't quite figured out this feature, but evidently the G1 has a feature that you can set up that will tell you how far your phone falls. Why you would deliberately want to drop your phone is beyond me, but it will actually tell you how far it fell. It also has this bar code feature where you can scan bar codes on products and compare prices that way. Is that not cool or what? I'm just naming a few features. Anyhow, I hope the weather looks up for us all and gets a little warmer. It's this type of weather that really makes you appreciate hot chocolate. The band and I head out on the bus at midnight tonight for Greenville, SC. We've got a show there tomorrow evening.

Hope to see some of you there! Have a great evening everyone, and like I said… stay warm and I will talk to y'all soon! God Bless!
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