i'm wound up

we moved on, out of region. saturday seventeen bands go into the area contest and three go to state. the boot is on.

madden 2007 pissed me off. you can't challenge after checking instant replay? WTF. this is how coaches check to see it they should challenge. the game could also pronouce players name correctly.

band gone wild

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first contest

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our first show was on saturday and it went quite well. we won our class and placed third overall. it was a prelims-finals show so it was a very long day. fortunately killeen is only about 45 minutes away. this stadium is impressive and i was told that it is only a moderate sized facility for a 5A school (actually all 4 of the KISD high schools share the stadium). this is not a surprise however, considering that we are a 3A school and our press box is 2 stories, air conditioned and has an elevator. GISD didn't have school today so i was able to rest up after watching the steelers get it handed to them sunday night.

and there was much rejoycing...yay

on sunday i filled up the truck for under 40 bucks. i can't remember the last time that happened. we finished up the show tonight and have the rest of the week to clean. i'll tell you this, $2,000 worth of hand crafted turkish metal can really make one hell of a crescendo. our first show is saturday at killeen and we are definitely looking forward to it. we took the drum line to a standstill contest last saturday. it went well and gave us a trial run with our new PA system. unfortunatly the case for our sweet new synth did not arrive so we had to use the old lame one. some sweet lines (4A and 5A) were there for us to see and mike macintosh was one of the judges. of course we made it home in time to watch the buckeyes.