The Joy of Life on the Road

We had shows back to back this weekend. Two on Friday in Kentucky and one on Saturday in Indiana. All of the shows went well, but they really tired us out. It's always very taxing when we have to drive.

So, during the show on Friday night, Brock smashed his hand. It was swelling up as the night went on. I didn't notice anything during the show except I saw one flash of annoyance on Brock's face when he hit his hand. He continued on like nothing had happened. Then, even though his hand was still swollen a little yesterday, he decided to do his card manipulation in the show which requires much hand movement. Right before he went onstage, he got a HUGE splinter under his fingernail. It hurt him badly. The host and I were backstage holding our cell phones up to give him some light. Without tweezers, he couldn't get the splinter out. I had some tweezers out in the truck, but I wouldn't be able to get them in time. Brock just sucked it up and did that whole show with a 1/3 of an inch splinter lodged under his fingernail.

Then, on the way home, we had a flat tire on our trailer. We had a spare tire but no tire iron. For miles, we couldn't find any place that would be open that sold them. We finally spotted a Kmart and Brock slipped in the store at 9:59pm just before they closed. He got the tire iron and changed the flat.

That put us home even later, and we were extra tired. We were so ready to crawl into our bed and simply sleep. More bad news...our heat had broken over the weekend. It was 45 degrees in our house. We turned on a space heater in our bedroom and the electric blanket. It was still a very cold night. Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep. This is how it goes sometimes. Videos from the weekend to come tomorrow.