Moving into an extremely busy time of the year with two dozen balls in the air, I have focused on increasing my productivity. If I can squeeze an extra hour out of the day as a result of being more efficient, that’s 6 extra hours a week. If I work 50 weeks in a year, that’s 300 extra hours. That’s the equivalent of accomplishing an entire extra month of work in a year. That’s pretty powerful, especially considering that right now I’d settle for an extra 15 minutes.

A search on flickr for Gruene Hall today yielded 2,597 results. A Google image search returned almost 140,000. A lot of those pictures are largely the same, but photographers over the past few days have had an entirely new kind of photo opportunity at Gruene Hall – remodeling.

They say you can tell a lot about a person by comparing the size of their television to the size of their library. Our family owns two big screens, but they are dwarfed by the size of our library.

As you can plainly see below, I’ve sharpened my pencil and I’m ready to take on the March issue of LoneStarMusic Magazine.

One of the first Blu-Ray discs I bought was the Godfather trilogy. I should write the $65 off on my taxes as it’s some of the best money I’ve ever spent for work.

For my cover story on the Gourds (LoneStarMusic Magazine FebMar2009), I was fortunate to have my lovely bride take some photos – one of which we used for the cover. She shot the band in the courtyard of Gruene Hall after their soundcheck. Here are a few of the shots from that day.