The Patio Boys, the band with which I play, put on a show last night for the City of San Marcos. We were scheduled to be in the park, but weather forced us indoors and scared away a good portion of the crowd that usually attends these concerts. We had fun anyway, though, as lots [...]
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Posted 03 August 2007
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Yesterday evening, I went up to Pflugerville to visit Jason Young and his delightful wife Erin. Jason is quite a polymath: he does commercial music, woodworking, film audio, set construction, and arranges much of the music for Baylor’s All University Sing each year. Since so much of his work is done in his home studio, [...]
Attend wedding rehearsal, play with band while wife and kids dance and run around. Find out after the fact that the bartender cut Liam off after 8 root beers. Keep kids out far after bedtime, thus ensuring squabbling and grumpiness. Vow never to do so again. Have breakfast with dear out-of-town friends. Laugh heartily at [...]
Wednesday night, I found myself at a place I would never have expected to end up as a 37-year old man: in the middle of a screaming crowd of enraptured teenage girls at a Fall Out Boy concert. How did this strange circumstance come to pass? It all starts with having a teenage daughter. Emily [...]
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Posted 22 June 2007
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We spent this past weekend at Mo Ranch with First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio, which Dad McMains and Lana attend. The church hosts an annual Father’s Day Weekend retreat, which Kathy and Emily and I first joined in very shortly after our wedding. That was exciting for me, as I had grown up attending [...]
This past Saturday, Barry and his wife Catherine came up to San Marcos for a visit with us and to attend a Sacred Harp sing together. The Sacred Harp is an old four-part songbook that uses shape notes, a system whereby the shape of the note head reflects its position in the song’s scale. It [...]
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Posted 23 April 2007
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There’s just never a dull moment around this place lately! Our biggest news, of course, is the addition of Margaret Ashley McMains to our ranks. She joined us on October 10, 2000 at 8:34pm, after Kathy’s shortest but most painful labor yet, weighing in at 8 pounds, 9.8 ounces, and either 21 or 19.5 inches, [...]
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Posted 15 October 2000
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