Seems that problem with my washing machine filling up until the point where the water has nowhere to go but out of the machine, and flooding my kitchen and downstairs neighbours flat has reoccurred! Luckily this time I kept an eye on it as I haven’t trusted it since the last time when it flooded the kitchen and flat downstairs last time. I managed to catch it just before the water reached the top after hearing water pouring into the machine for about ten minutes continuous; just as well I was here or the kitchen would be flooded again. It seems to me that it’s a program problem as it only seems to happen when I set it for a white cotton wash (95°C) and it seems to add more water when it passes the 60°C and 40°c points as if it was actually performing a 60°C or 40°C wash! I need to contact the agency about this as its getting silly now, what if it happens and I don’t notice it?
Last night was a really hard night at the Phoenix, two bands to engineer, it was all too much for me, I need a holiday; actually it was quiet, open mic night and only two bands turned up, well one band and another pretending to be a band. First band up were ‘my first band’ type of band, no coordination, couldn’t play, couldn’t sing, and had poor quality instruments that even the best engineer in the world couldn’t make sound good. Second and last band up were Mary Jane, who I have seen on open mic nights before I quite enjoy their music, and what a difference in quality, decent instruments, so the soundstage suddenly came to life, sounding much fuller and cleaner, and the vocals were actually audible, didn’t need to push the gain as hard to get the vocals through, and the whole sound was good considering that there wasn’t anyone in the house apart from a few of the bands friends! So a disappointing night all in all, but at least I enjoyed the Mary Jane mix of covers and their own material, hopefully I will get to engineer these guys in a proper gig one day!
Finally, this is my last day off work, back to the grind tomorrow and I have to say that I am not looking forward to it, been enjoying the life of being a lazy bastard for the last 8 days, and I have to work at least 10 weeks before I can take another holiday, damn the Christmas holiday ban, the only definite days I will get off is 25th – 26th December and 1st January!