This Friday was the start of the BC Indoor Annual Gathering or the BC AG for short.

I did not have a lesson this Friday since my instructor Helen Sanders was competing at the BC indoor.  I don't know if she was competing solo or band, or maybe both.  Probably both.

It is probably just as well I didn't have a lesson today.  Work has been totally nuts.  I mentioned in my last post I think this is the busiest we have been in the last 13 years of operation.  Not only do we have several customer projects at varying stages of completion we are also transitioning to a new accounting system, POS (point of sale) system, and have at least half a dozen internal projects running at once.

When I get home from work I 'm just dead tired, and I think my head is going to explode!  Even so I know I have to get out the pipes and play for at least 10 to 15 minutes, and then do chanter work for another 30 minutes.  I need to get some musicians ear plugs, especially when I practice indoors, the pipes are about 103 to 110 decibels.  Very loud!  Even with 12' ceilings in my shop my ears are ringing when I'm done.

This weekend I need to get some good chanter time in, next Tuesday is my 2nd lesson with Jori Chisholm and I want to make the most of it.  Getting lessons from Jori is a pretty involved process, since he lives just north of Ballard it is an all day affair, but the results are very much worth the time and expense.