And the beat goes on.......

Well, the quarters of bleak winter are finally over...FINALLY. The new tour has been out now a little over 2 months and has been setting record numbers for the Gold show history.....I'd like to think that it's due to their circus coffee and their coffee-loving trumpeter....um, riiiiiiiight, back to reality.
So, this leap year day I've been working (a morning kiddie show and the standard night time show) and resting (was half way across the country for the first part of this week) and playing with my new trumpet toys....ok, they're more like tools. One is called, ready for this?, a "PowerLung". That's right, I'm not making this up, but I think this contraption is the best thing for a wind instrument musician's breathing since, well, since God created air. Basically it has adjusting intake and exhalation valves, in essence creating strength training for all of your breathing muscle groups....hooray. I can't wait to see the positive affects on my playing...and then the other big change in my life is going to a new girlfriend...well, of sorts, she IS a redhead....I put a down payment on this bike 2 weeks ago. If all this go smoothly, I'll be picking her up in 2 days in atlanta....I can't wait to get the new bike out on the smoky mountains! Well, I need to make some espresso and head off to work, but I'll leave you with a little project I did for Karen's Coffee Art stuff, I think it turned pretty good if I do say so myself, enjoy!