Friday's gig at the Bistro

Yesterday, Donny called me to do a Duet at Bistro 221. It's an interesting gig because I play solo for about 1/2 the gig. Donny is very nice, but has a rather "rubato" style of singing which keeps me on my toes. I'm not quite sure what kind of feel his usual player uses for many tunes, but I'm pretty sure that it's different from mine.

I also enjoy the challange of reading through the tunes I don't know, and not having a train wreck.

One thing: I don't really feel comfortable playing solo gigs on my XP-80. I would really prefer to have weighted keys. I'm going to start looking into lower-end digital pianos.

Short, fun, programming gig

Short and sweet: A friend who designs websites, but doesn't code needed help with a simple but non-working script to import CSV data into a MySQL database and automate the import.

It's in Perl! Ohhh, my favorite. About an hour and a half and all is working fine, even though the hosting server doesn't allow shell logins and you have to use a time-sinking control panel.

I have to say, the quality of the Perl scripts that folks are apparently actually using on operational websites is nothing less than appalling. No strictures? Simple but wrong regular expressions for parsing CSV?

Sub-gigs: when it rains it pours

Lots of calls for sub-gigs. Sylvia called for a gig in June, Baytown called for gigs in June and July, Donny called for a gig tonight, and I got a call for session work tomorrow.