It's funny how everyone starts to speak spanish in Mexican restaurants...for the last time, the waiter is not your amigo.

Tuesday's are nice because it is the first day I can ease into the day after Sunday. I never mind waking up super early (read before 6:30) as long as there is a day soon after where I can take it easy in the morning. As I've said before, I feel bad for my wife, because she has to wake up super early 5 days in a row.

This morning I woke up at 9, and then watched Sportscenter and checked emails for a little while. I then went outside to use my new functional weedeater, which worked wonderfully. I didn't wear pants, which was probably a mistake, because rocks sting quite a bit when hitting your bare legs at blazing speeds. By the way, I was wearing shorts...that last sentence sounds a little weird. I also spent some time digging up dead grass, but got tired of that really fast. I think I will do more of that on Thursday.

After the yard work I took Lucy for her daily walk. She decided to get incredibly dirty again, which meant that I had to give her another bath. Surprisingly she engaged in minimal growling, which was nice.

I took a shower and left early for work because I wanted to stop at Best Buy. I was excited to find that they had both the new Anberlin and Jack's Mannequin in stock. I didn't even bother looking at Wal-Mart, so often Wal-Mart is useless when it comes to CD's. The first thing I checked was the producer on the Anberlin CD, and as I thought the name was not "Aaron Sprinkle." I decided to listen to that CD on my way to work. It is called "New Surrender," and I tried my best to have a good attitude about the new producer. I want to withhold my full opinion until I've listened to it a little more, but early reports show dissatisfaction. I wouldn't say I'm disappointed, it is just kind of what I expected with the new label and the new producer. I still like it though, and let's face it...following up an album as amazing as one like "Cities" is pretty hard.

So far I am enjoying the Jack's Mannequin CD quite a bit. There is some really interesting guitar work, which I think is probably a product of this CD being more of a band thing than just an Andrew McMahon CD like the first one. I do miss Tommy Lee playing the drums, although the drums are fine. They made some interesting choices in not doing a whole lot of production to McMahon's voice, but I kind of like it. I will comment more on that CD later also.

Work today was pretty busy. We shot some footage off site at a local Mexican restaurant, which was fun. There was alot to do setup wise because of tearing down the sails, and the enormous group on stage this week. There is a full band and also an orchestra, which means alot of inputs, chairs, stands, etc. Dan Leslie suggested putting the orchestra in the middle, which we ended up doing, and it looks pretty good. There is alot for me to clean up when I get to work tomorrow.

Today was the first day of me packing my dinner. Really all we had was sandwich stuff, so that's all I had, a sandwich. It worked out ok, except I was still incredibly hungry. I will have to make sure to get some side items real soon. I think I am still going to eat out on Wednesdays, and then take my lunch on Fridays.

I'm watching The Daily Show right now, and Jon Stewart was talking about congress being out because of a Jewish holiday...seriously? Our country's economy is about to completely collapse, and congress is taking a break? Weird.

Tomorrow is such a long day. My parents said Lucy can come over again, which is nice. She wouldn't eat her food tonight, so I'm hoping she won't get sick. I guess it would make for an interesting blog post though...