Heading to Colorado

It's time I started blogging again!
So I'm heading to Colorado today to do some shows opening for Buckethead. I probably should have flown but for some strange reason it seemed like a good idea to get in a car and go on a road trip. I'm not sure I really thought this through but I just didn't feel like getting on an airplane. I wanted to take a bunch of stuff with me and all the airplane logistics seemed daunting. In retrospect though it would've been a pretty convenient flight out and back. Can't cry over spilled milk. I'm gonna have a chance to catch up on all the music I've been meaning to listen to and all the thoughts I've been meaning to contemplate. Besides which I think a road trip away from New York city is gonna be just what the doctor ordered. Of course the real reason I was reluctant to fly comes down to voodoo, or at least what I like to call voodoo. To me that's the religion that governs all electronics. For some reason, and perhaps it's because I haven't been slaughtering the right kind of chickens, all my equipment has been incredibly tempermental lately. Every time I set up there's another problem to troubleshoot. Dodgy leads, computer problems, pickup connections. I've gotten really good at troubleshooting problems and fixing stuff but the thought of my stuff being tossed into the cargo bay of an airplane seemed like the possible last straw. That's also why I've decided, to the detriment of all my friends who've been on my case, not to continue on to burning man after Colorado. I can't say I wasn't tempted and I probably could have fit it in between Bucket tours but the idea of taking my testy equipment into a desert dust storm was probably not a good one. I'm pretty sure my stuff would not survive the desert. Oh and the money factor for burning man made heading home after Colorado seem like an even better idea...