[BDBopper]

Tonight was very interesting and very successful.

First of all backstory. a local karaoke company helps me put these Hops on every year. Whenever the venue is picked and the date set I get on their calendar. Well good news for the company is that their business is booming right now. the bad news for me is that they were triple booked tonight and they have three rigs. they could cancel one gig but it would cost them business. I learned this about three weeks ago and I was literally in tears. I wasn't upset with the company but with the venue that wouldn't let them have a night off so they could help a worthwhile cause.

Well luckily for me one of their employees was nice enough to bring his own equipment to represent the company and save the day.

Things did turn interesting.

The CD player he had malfunctioned and the sound was not reaching the speakers. Well good thing he pulled out his laptop computer. This was about thirty minutes until show time. But I needed my external hard drive to help things move along so he drove me back home and I scurried up the stairs and got my gear to run down the stairs and get back to the church fellowship hall where this event was going to take place. So we arrive there about 10 minutes late and have to set things up again and the laptop won't read the external for some strange reason. Well fortunately the CD player in the laptop worked and I was able to play what little we had between us (I didn't bring but what I needed to get by since he said he was going to bring more than I had...well it didn't end up that way. It ended up that we stalled long enough so we didn't run dry musically.

The kids had a ball as always and much fun was had by all! This isn't one of the school's biggest fundraisers but we ended up raising $500 after cost which is much larger than the usual amount raised. Yay us!

BTW I dedicated a song "Pennsylvania 6-5000" by the Brian Setzer Orchestra to my swanky friends at The Lounge of Tomorrow! I like that song and think it was worthy of such a dedication. I hope you will agree!

And now I pass out...and bring on the usual cold/flu that I get afterwards because this time of year is bad with most of the kids being sick or carrying something. Like I said earlier this is a labor of love. I truly enjoy doing this because of the smiles on their faces. It's not about me or what I want...it's about the kids having the time of their lives!