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tfabris ([personal profile] tfabris) wrote2008-03-18 12:33 pm
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Give me the bad news first.


Good and bad news.

Bad news is, Vixy and I will likely have to cancel Norwescon. She got sick on Sunday at Consonance, picking up what appears to have been the same nasty cold that I'd had the fortune to have already run through several weeks prior. This particular rhinovirus is among the worst ones I've seen, ruining your voice at first, then giving you several days worth of sinus trouble, followed by, literally, weeks of dry coughing. I'm still feeling the effects of this thing in my chest and I've been over it for a month or two. We were hoping Vixy would get better by Norwescon, but this thing is just thrashing her, and now we're down to the point where even if she were miraculously better by Saturday (and from the looks of things, she won't be), we haven't been able to rehearse this week anyway and still wouldn't be able to do it.

We've got two more weeks after this week to heal up in time for our our GOH slot at FilKONtario. That gig has been planned for two years, it's our very first Filk Con GOH slot, they're counting on us, and we've got expensive non-refundable plane tickets, so we're going to make that one, do or die.

Good news is, the week after Consonance, with exactly enough voice for one take of one phrase before she broke down and couldn't sing any more, Vixy fixed up the last piece of vocal track on the last song for our album. Actually, we'd intended to re-record the entire vocal track that week, but then the illness hit, so for "Strange Messenger", you get Vixy's scratch track with only the opening phrase re-recorded. Of course, you all know Vixy, even her scratch tracks are awesome. :-)

Other album news: Our mastering engineer has the final tracks and is working on it. We're almost done with the CD jacket design files. We know which duplication house we're going to use and we're making sure our ducks are in a row for getting copies in time. With a little luck, we're on schedule for a release of Thirteen at FKO! :-)

The complete list of upcoming Vixy and Tony appearances is:

Norwescon, Weekend of March 21st, 2008, Seattle, WA. Canceling, sorry. :(
FilKONtario, Weekend of April 4th, 2008, Toronto. We are the Guests of Honor!
Wayward Coffee House, Saturday, April 19, 2008, 8-10pm, Seattle, WA.
BayCon, Weekend of May 23, 2008, San Jose, CA.
SpoCon, Weekend of August 1st, 2008, Spokane, WA.
Consonance, Early March, 2009, San Jose, CA. We are the Guests of Honor!