Last Thursday after school, Mer and I headed over to Dubbs’ place for supper. I had made some bread, and Dubbs made some lasagna, and so we happily dove in pretty much right when we got there. Nate, Dubbs’ husband, was working, so he could not join us, but Dubbs’ two kitties kept us entertained, in addition to the eating and chat.

After supper, we heeded down to Akron’s public library. Dubbs is working on a major paper for a graduate class, and Mer needed to check out a copy of a movie of Death of a Salesman for her AP English classes. Since the library was only a block away from our ultimate destination, the music club Musica, we figured we could stop at the library. We spent almost an hour there (Dubbs checked out about 10 books), and then walked over to the club.

Bethesda, the band our friends Eric and Shanna are in, was playing that night. They were supposed to open the evening as the first of four bands. Sadly, when we got there (having tromped though a wet snow), they had been moved to third of four bands, which meant there were not going on at 8:00 as we had thought; they were now going on at 9:30. Mer and I had to be home to make an important phone call to our realtor, so we talked with Dubbs and we decided to leave and come back.

So, we headed back home and made our phone call, which turned out not to be needed yet (there was no new information). These things do happen from time to time. To make the best of it, we headed over to Handel’s Ice Cream (in a snowstorm), and got ice cream. Then we headed back to Musica to hear Bethesda.

We go there to hear the last song of the one-man-band that was on before Eric’s group, so our timing was good. Bethesda took only a little time to get set, and then they played for about 40 minutes or so. This was my second time hearing them, and this time the competing crowd noise was less than what was going on at their CD release party two months ago. The music was still turned up too loudly for an old fogey like me to get right down at the stage, but the quality of the music was very good, and they have an excellent stage presence – lots and lots and lots of energy with lots of movement from the band members while they sing and play.

We did get home after the concert around 10:50, and had a call from our realtor to call him if we could before 11:00. So, even that worked out.