Sick

I am writing this from a very small university in Albany, NY called Saint Rose University. We are playing in one of the university buildings tonight with some friends of ours in Aficionado. It's been a while since I've sent out an update, so here's a quick recap:

Last I left you we were pranking in Wyoming. We spent a night in Boulder, Colorado at Ben S's cousins place the next night. He made us a delicious dinner, and it was the first time I have ever had brussel sprouts. The next night we played a mediocre show in Colorado Springs. To make up for the crappyness of the show, I remembered I had some Marriott rewards points saved up from what seems like a lifetime ago and was able to swing a room in a nearby Fairfield Inn. It was nice to have a clean shower and some HBO to cool every ones nerves. I also stole a shit load of bagels, single serve strawberry jelly's and plastic silverware. Well, I don't know if I would consider it stealing. They do refer to it as an 'all you can eat buffet' not specifying when or where you eat it. We left Colorado Springs and headed straight for the mountains. A few weeks prior to this, we were struggling with a gap in our tour between CO Springs and Illinois. Ben Miller remembered that he has a cousin who lives in Frisco, CO and decided to give him a call to see if he could help us out in any way. Well, as it turns out, Ben's cousin is not just a restaurant owner in Frisco, but owns the living shit out of the entire town. The next thing I know, he has booked us a gig with a $200 guarantee, secured a 2 bedroom condo for us, and promised to feed us at his restaurant. This was the highlight of the tour. We spent two days there, kicking them off with a meal at Chris's(Ben's cousin) restaurant. I had a filet mignon, 2 margarita's, a glass of wine and a shot of top shelf tequila. My meal alone had to be at least $60-$75, not including the appetizers we all shared. This set the tone for the remainder of the weekend. We left Frisco refreshed, and slightly hungover. We made our way to Illinois for a show in Champaign, followed by a show in Madison, Wisconson. Neither were exceptional. Our show in Chicago was decent. It was nice to see some familiar faces, and the venue we played, Martyr's had the nicest green room we've come across thus far stocked with free beer and bottles of water. We left Chicago and headed for Ohio. Dayton was a great night. There were tons of friends in the crowd, we got half price food at the venue and played great. We drove back to Columbus that night to sleep in familiar beds, although not for long. I pulled up to my parents house around 6 in the morning, and had to wake up at 11 to do my taxes and eat lunch with the fam before we left for Morgantown.

That was only a few days ago, and not much has happened since. Oh, except that I'm sick, and have probably infected everyone else in the band. You're welcome guys.