I’ve had a cold all week. Actually, I think my allergies were activated by some (long belated) cleaning last Friday, which gave me a sore throat, which made it easier for germs floating around at the gig Saturday night to make their way in, and two days later the sore throat turned into a full-blown cold. However, Elise turned me on to those Emergen-C packets, and I have to say I think they helped quite a bit. Not to mention the fact that I made myself stay horizontal for two full days, and take medicine to sleep at night. For entertainment I watched the last three discs of The Lord of the Rings extended edition set, which was even better than I remembered.

Last night, Thursday, I was finally feeling human enough to go to rehearsal. Afterwards, the other guys were helping me load my stuff out of the basement, which was very nice of them. I had the kick drum in my hands, calling out instructions on where to put stuff, when I rounded the corner of my car and hit a patch of ice. Boom! I landed on my left hip and wrist, so I have a couple of nice goose eggs developing there. Also the strap on the kick drum case tried to take my right thumbnail off as I went down—that’s almost the most irritating thing, because it hurts every time I click the select bar on my laptop.

While it’s hard to walk (the right knee has also started complaining), it doesn’t appear I did major damage to any drumming muscles, so I should be good for my gigs tonight and tomorrow.

I am soooooooooo ready for spring.

Update: I got to my gig last night and pulled the kick drum out, only to find that the fall had snapped one of the tuning rods in half and broken the front hoop. Guess I really did fall pretty hard. The drum sounded okay (Sonors are the best!), but the volume was only about half of normal. I couldn't hear it all night; fortunately it is miked, so the band didn't lose all its low end punch as a result. I’m off to the drum shop to try to get replacements now.