April 2018
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It was all so long ago…
April 21st was a long, long day. I was setting up sound at Takoma Park’s Earth Day celebration by 10am. No problem. Running sound for SongRise DC by noon… no problem! Running ilyAIMY by 12.30 and breaking everything down and on our way out of town by 1…. To race to Ellicott City and load-in…
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Driving Driving.
I’m so very grateful that Heather likes driving. There was a time long ago when I really enjoyed the physical act of it – I think – but I guess it’d be more true to say that I’ve always Loved the freedom and possibility of it. My old Volkswagon certainly had a wonderful physicality to…
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Leaning on the Wall.
I’ve been thinking about downtime. Which isn’t a bad way to spend some of my downtime. I read once that wasted time isn’t wasted it if you enjoyed wasting it. Killing time is maybe bad, wasting time isn’t wasted, downtime will help you stay up when the time comes. Paanda. I leaned against a 7…
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The House We Built
So our time in Virginia has been pretty idyllic. No small part of that is that this is my first visit to my friend Justin’s house. He’s been here for over a year and I’ve never been out and I have no-one to blame but myself. Did I mention idyllic? Owning a home is something…
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Last Night I Dreamed of the Devil….
I dreamt Satan was in the front row. He was stereotypically Satanic – big and beefy and red. I was playing “Stagger Lee” and kept screwing up the lyrics, nervous about getting to the last verse where Stag goes to Hell and beats up the devil. I started spouting bad poetry trying to keep the…
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April 3rd, 2018.
I think I’m exhausted by volunteer work. I think I’m exhausted by particular connections from which almost all of my current stress comes from – and it is those things from which I see the least return that I receive the most angst. And I’m tired of it. I really Love playing music. When it…