It came on me suddenly, a sense of direction and purpose.
It’s a nice feeling.
It’s 12:40 am. Rehearsal is done. Mr. Mix is at Bayside Manor, and as far as I know, everyone is pretty much accounted for.
It’s probably been mentioned elsewhere, but it amuses me that George W. Bush forcibly deposed a man named Hussein, only to (possibly) be succeeded in office by a man named Hussein.
Weather Underground rocks. It’s worth the ten bucks a year to register, too, although you can use it for free. Check it out.
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I’m straight, just so you know. Having said that, I’m totally behind Big Al here:
(Thanks to Ice Station Tango via Crooks and Liars.)
Something of mine, from a long time ago:
Eating out my heart again,
Its taste still on my tongue,
I spat it out and left it
To lie,
Drying,
In the sun.Living heartless in the world,
For some days I endured,
Then I returned
Beneath the Sun
And found
My heart had cured.
We’ll call it–”Beneath the Sun.” No. “Cured Heart.” Yeah. Why not?
It was a pretty good day yesterday (today, really, but datewise yesterday), as was the day before, for the most part. I got up fairly early, took a walk, fiddled around on the keyboard and guitar, took another walk with my neighbor, and caught the Mardi Gras parade downtown (yet more walking, as I parked well away from the action). Then more fiddling around (though not on the fiddle, which was neglected today), and off to the Blues Cafe, where Linda threw Gary a surprise birthday party (and treated everyone to dinner; you rock, Linda). I had etoufee; not one of my favorite dishes, usually, but it seemed to go with the whole Mardi Gras thing. All in all it was a pretty fine Gulf Coast-style day. Then I stopped by Glenn and Therese’s and visited with them for a while. On top of it all, the laptop battery I ordered on eBay came in today. It’s unused, it seems, although it must be pretty old. The Toshiba Satellite it’s going in is a 486 with DOS and Windows 3.1 (though it will likely wind up with some flavor of Linux if this battery pans out; it’s charging now). Even though the laptop is ancient, it has a great keyboard, and so it will be, I hope, a nifty little word processor, something to plug away with while I wait for my clothes to wash, or whatever. I hope it works; I’ve been wanting this for some time. We’ll see.
So, yeah, it was a pretty good day, and Friday was too, for the most part, since I got some business off my back that had been bugging me for weeks. The only downside was that Friday evening I got kind of depressed. I think a lot of that had to do with not getting enough sleep the night before; and since I’m feeling kind of blue tonight too, and I’m also kind of sleepy, I’m going to bed.
A little while back I blogged that I’d gotten down to 229 lb., and I was excited about it. Since then I rebounded to about 235. Having cracked the whip on myself a bit the last couple of weeks, I’ve managed to bring it back down to about 230 today. Bah. It’s hard, I want mah cheezburgers!
Well, hard as in it seems to take forever, and it’s too easy to blow it; but again, it’s all about lifestyle, not tacked-on temporary changes. It actually takes more commitment, I think, but it’s more real.
Also, the smoking thing; my love affair with air. It’s a long story, but the best I can say is that I’ve had no tobacco products all year. Last year’s efforts have paid off, I think; even though I can’t say I haven’t smoked a cigarette since last July, I can say I’ve been serious about it since then.
