This past Wednesday was my birthday. I came home from jammin’ out with the band to find this awesome cake that Becca had made for me. Not only did she bake this crazy awesome homemade cake filled with delicious pudding and butter cream frosting, but she also frosted a Greek key on the side to accentuate the masculinity of the cake!

When we bought our house back in March, we decided that the one lesser attractive part of the home was the manner in which the backyard presented itself. When the house was built, they had simply poured a slab of concrete outside the back sliding door and that was that.

Well, we decided that we’d like to have something a little more inviting going on out there, so Becca’s dad and I took it upon ourselves to build a deck one weekend.

I wasn’t really sure what the plan would be to build it, but with her dad being experienced in this sort of thing I figured he would have some excellent suggestions. The existing concrete slab provided a good starting point as it left us in the position where we didn’t have to worry about digging post holes or any of that nonsense.

After 12 hours of work on a beautiful sunny day, we finally had the deck completed. Here’s the before and after pictures.

Instance has released its first single, Different Day, as a free mp3 download from our site.

We have released Different Day as the first downloadable mp3 from Instance and it’s completely free! Featuring a rockin’ groove, Different Day has a pretty catchy hook with lots of “ooh la la la’s” for your listening pleasure. Take a listen and you be the judge!

I am personally pretty proud of the way this recording came out. It was recorded as part of our demo that we laid down in April of this year. Be sure to let me know what you think and if you’re digging the tune then you can help us promote it by tossing this graphic on your blog/myspace (get the code by clicking on the image below)