slow day

Well it's been a slow day here at the Rock & Roll Stringband (our official genre) headquarters. The house concert we were scheduled to play this evening canceled (or rescheduled, I'm not sure). So it was a slow sittin' around day. We went and got some groceries, I worked a couple of hours, we rehearsed this evening. We realized 5 minutes too late that the grocery was closing and we weren't going to be able to get food to make dinner. And, we're too cheap (read: broke) to pay for restaurant food - it's super painful to buy a 15 euro meal and pay in dollars knowing that it's costing you 25.50 for that meal. So we had toasty kassa (think grilled cheese sandwich), salad, hard boiled egg, more cheese, and chocolate covered cookies for dinner. And then some cheese for dessert. Not bad, but kind of a mish mosh.

Tomorrow we play a show in
Enschede, about and hour from here:



Yesterday we played a gig in Amsterdam at an internet talk show called Desmet Live. It gets shot in a bar, it seems like they're going for the vibe you'd get having a casual conversation with someone in a bar, where you'd stop and pay attention to the live band every now and then.

This is the stage:

The rest of the bar:

And how we killed time waiting to play:


And a shot from out front after the gig, waiting for the van so we could load up & head out. An interesting point of note is the bicycle path. See how the street has 3 levels, or sometimes sections. Our place is on the sidewalk. See the bike path part that that looks a lot like a sidewalk is not a sidewalk? It's a place to piss off the locals & get hit by bicycles. Look both ways. Don't meander in accidentally. Then there's the street. I'm pretty good at streets; no problems there.


I've been fascinated by the urinals. Until yesterday, every one I've seen has looked like this:
(for all you who don't visit american men's rooms so very often, I've never, ever seen a urinal in the states that looks like this)

but yesterday low and behold I happened upon this:
I was so startled I had to document it. And now I feel compeled to share.

And here's me, day 5. I hope to have this corrected by day 7 or 8. Maybe more cheese will help.