I feel I would be remiss if I did not mention the Crossroads guitar festival concert I attended last weekend, but it's taken me this long to mention it because this is the end of the second week in a row without a real break. I flew out of Indy last Friday, spent all Saturday at the show, and flew home Sunday morning.

The concert was really great. It was like five years of concerts in one day- Clapton, BB King, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Allison Krause and Union Station, Jeff Beck, John Mayer, Buddy Guy, and more that I can't remember right now. Jeff Beck was the big surprise of the show, coming out with a set of solid rock and improv that had the exhausted crowd cheering. the big surprise of the day for me was Vince Gill, a contemporary coutry artist. I had never really listened to him, but the man can play the blues. And Eric Clapton, of course, was as great as his reputation suggests.

My first check cleared this week, supporting the notion that I'm actually here to stay for the foreseeable future. I'm still in the habit of saving boxes and keeping things that I'm not using packed, though. When I moved in last month it was the fourth place I had lived in the span of a year so I still feel a bit nomadic.