Well, dear readers, I have breaking bombshell news that will knock your socks off and then we can all romp around in our bare feet eating figs and nutmeats: It is December 31 and more importantly, the last day of 2025, and even more importantly, the time for our Annual Rockin’ New Year’s Eve Bash right here at haineshisway.com. And then, at midnight balls will drop, and we’ll ring in both the New Year and January, and it is my fervent hope and prayer that both 2026 and January will be filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. Let’s just have a boatload of all those things, shall we? But first, let’s get yesterday out of the way and make quick work of it, too. I never stopped going and doing, especially doing, from the time I got up at ten – AGAIN – to starting these here notes. I had tons of e-mails to answer when I got up, then had to go to my lunch meeting, which lasted not one but two hours. After that, I did the Gelson’s run and got everything for tomorrow afternoon’s little get-together. Then I came home and had tons more e-mails to answer, questions about the play to answer, lists to make because I have never had a proper assistant director save for three rehearsals, and then listening to the mixes one last time in album order – I’m happy to say the album order worked just fine, and I only had four or five nitpicks on four or five mixes – won’t even take fifteen minutes to do they’re so minor but they’ll all help, so why not. I’ll get those mixes back and listen, and then that part of it’s through. Then there was some silly drama about the cover choices, but that’s done now. I never had time to relax or watch a movie, I had some McDonald’s for a quickie snack around eight and that was really about all she wrote.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll sign off on the mixes and they’ll go to the mastering engineer, I’ll eat something fun, I’ll do a quick mail place visit to hopefully get the other important envelope, and that is IT. Otherwise, I’ll attend our fun Bash here and we’ll ring in the New Year on both coasts. I’ll have my sip of champagne at midnight, I’ll take a hot shower and wash 2025 right the HELL down the drain and begin 2026 clean and fresh and relaxed.
Tomorrow, when I arise, I’ll get coherent, and then I dive right into the new book, and I’ll shoot for eight to ten pages over the course of the day and then after the get-together. I’ll have to shave and shower at some point and then begin cooking around three-fifteen. People arrive at four and we’ll be done around seven and I’ll probably write a few more pages at that point. Then perhaps watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I’ll do some banking in the morning, then write as many pages as I write, and then I’ll mosey on over to the theater around six-fifteen to see our set fully up, and I have to bring my speakers from upstairs downstairs, just in case we still have to use them, which I think we will. Then we’ll start at the beginning and get everyone used to the set, how things work, we’ll spike the floor, so people know what goes where. Saturday, we’ll start at noon and go to around four or five – I’d love to get two runs in, if possible. Same thing on Sunday.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, do whatever needs doing, sign off on the mixes, eat, do a mail place visit, attend our Bash, ring in the New Year on both coasts, sip champagne at midnight, shower and was 2025 down the damn drain, and then begin 2026 clean and fresh. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, as we prepare to enter a New Year.