Pretty hard to find the energy after a long week of work and everything else. Dan just returned from Milwaukee after visiting his daughter and grandkid when I called to remind him. Joe lives in Chicago and snuck out of work a couple minutes early so he could hit the road and sit in traffic. Then drive all the way to Kalamazoo after a long day/week on his new job. John has been working all week and keeping things up at home where they have a horse farm and 40 acres to maintain.

You get the point, we were all pretty spent. Somehow, though we always manage to summon up enough energy to run through a couple of sets of songs. We made a commitment to this upcoming gig and we have to make sure we are ready. A couple songs in and we are smiling and not lacking for energy anymore. At some point we all realize that we're running out of steam and call it a day. Its only after we finish that we realize just how exhausted we really are. Adrenalin works like that.