That sums it up these days. Chicago is for laundry. Our friends don’t really think of us as living there anymore.

I took a red-eye on the 18th of November to join Andrew, who’d been gone since November 3rd. We were supposed to be home three-plus days before leaving again on the 5th of December but snow kept us in New York long enough for a less-than-48-hour stop in Chicago for… laundry (and other scrambling) before a flight to San Diego (then LA, San Francisco, and Minneapolis). Working on the road’s been excellent. Takes the sting out of the long Chicago-Winter-Beatdown.

Being home for a total of 8 days in December was completely worth it, especially for the scramble we all did to shoot three live shows in Mpls. I decided at the last minute to edit down Lisa Barcy’s MERMAID to use as projections for those shows. We spent the morning at the hotel’s waterpark then parted ways (Andrew off to do press and freakout). I spent the day in our hotel room with cranky old iMovie, editing MERMAID down from 17 minutes to 7. We used it at that night’s show and the next. A total blast. (photo courtesy of James Tran)