Arrivés

If you're reading this, we've landed in Milan and my data connection
is up and running.

During our brief stop in Frankfurt, we think we saw Grey's Anatomy
actor T.R. Knight - sneakily snapped photos submitted to Perez Hilton,
of course :)

Pictured below are the alps we flew over between Frankfurt and Milan.

Rolling back from the gate...

It's been a while since I was on a 747 because airlines have trouble
filling them and now favor fuel efficiency over capacity and use 777s.
No photo this time because I am on my cameraless Blackberry - iPhone
is already packed and off for battery purposes.

No problems at security with the gear and they even decided not to
charge for my obviously oversized On-Stage stands bag. Yay Lufthansa!

I'll post again on the other side!

Rolling back from the gate...

It's been a while since I was on a 747 because airlines have trouble
filling them and now favor fuel efficiency over capacity and use 777s.
No photo this time because I am on my cameraless Blackberry - iPhone
is already packed and off for battery purposes.

No problems at security with the gear and they even decided not to
charge for my obviously oversized On-Stage stands bag. Yay Lufthansa!

I'll post again on the other side!

Backpack is packed!

Since this is supposed to be of some value and not just me
liveblogging the packing process, here is a tour of my recording
backpack.

At the top is the batterygeek external battery (you can see the
special white MagSafe cable), left is the MacBook, center and largest
is the C-4 mics in their box, and on the right is the Inspire/Hard
disk combo showcased in my previous post.

Does this look too much like...

A bomb? That just occurred to me while packing...

24 hours...

Less, actually.

As part of my final prep I went to OSH and spent $8 on a roll of
sticky-back Velcro. Here I'm using two strips to mount my USB hard
drive (which I always use for recording) to my Presonus Inspire audio
interface.

Disaster #1

That's a microphone stand not fitting into a suitcase. I wonder what Plan B is.