daCapo Relay

Ok, this is old news, but I have been negligent in the Blogging department from time to time. Last month, daCapo had a relay team in the Manitoba Marathon, and we actually finished BEFORE SOME OTHER TEAM DID! Anyhow, I was poking around the Marathon web-site the other day and found these gems of photos from the event posted for the world to see... Here is Gene with half of Olaf... ... And Olaf with half of Gene. Gene's a good client and friend of ours from FatKat animation in New Brunswick... for some reason we thought it would be fun to have him come visit us....and run 12K. He must have liked it, 'cause he continued running until he did a half-marathon distance... here he is with Nolan on Nolan's leg. ...and here is Nolan running alone after Gene decided that half-a-marathon was about as much as any sane person should consider doing. Annalee could not make it out to the event (she says it was a family commitment, but I think she just had too much to drink out at the cottage the night before) so we got her sister Lisa to run for us. This is me... run Clint run. I ran the second last leg of the relay, which is awesome, as all the real runners have already done 20 miles AND ARE TIRED! You can breeze right by them and pretend that you are some kind of superhero (not that I actually DID that!)"

In other Marathon news, Olaf wrote a song to market the Manitoba Marathon a couple of years back, and you can hear it here...I Never Knew that I Could Fly

We've Been Framed

Construction continues, and we have now had our new studio completely framed and ready for heating/cooling and electrical work! On the left of this shot you can see where the new control room will be... And here is where the isolation booth will be constructed. For recording vocals, guitar and solitary confinement if necessary... Speaking of solitary confinement, I think Nolan wishes our old bathroom (soon to be ripped out and replaced) was a bit MORE solitary. He has that incontinent look in his eyes again! This old furnace is leaving us... in fact it is going this morning and a new high-efficiency one is coming to live here! OH NO! I know what is going on here... he has that 'cat in the litter box' look on his face...

Construction Day 1!

Things have been busy around the studio these days, and that's why we are BUILDING A NEW STUDIO in the gross and disgusting pit of despair that is our basement.

Thankfully the only person who will have to work in the basement, is Kevin the new guy, and he doesn't even KNOW about the hissing cockroach infestation!

Anyhow, I am going to try and chart the progress on our new rooms on this blog, starting with today, when the crowbar started pulling the old duct work off... Believe it or not, these shots are of the basement AFTER we cleaned it out! We are disgusting pigs! The fridge in the corner is a bio hazard. We have not opened it since it broke... 20 months ago. I am guessing the lettuce and liverwurst have done some pretty raunchy things since then... This old 'bathroom' was beyond disgusting... ...believe it or not, certain butt-cheeks have caressed this porcelain Petri dish in moments of gastro-intestinal upheaval (I'm looking YOUR way Nolan). And finally, here is a drawing of how it WILL look...

Stay tuned to see how things change day-to-day!