Can't swing your arms without hitting a bass player. . .

So I was at the Boiler Room climbing gym the other night, really pissed-off because my bass player had just quit, and I turned to one of Sienna's co-workers (the trailhead kids nearly all dig climbing) and asked him, mostly as a way to start bitching about my situation,

"Derek, man, you don't play the bass, do you?"

And he answered, because there is a god,

"Actually, yes."

So, everything is fine. Derek came out to our practice on Wednesday, and was well prepared and caught on quick, and tolerated Tim's inexplicable repeated singing of Bon Jovi's "Lay Your Hands on Me". . .