Must Do Chores Must Do Chores

I've had an abundance of free time. Months. I used a block to complete Fedrick Not Fred. Even at it's most frustrating I would think to myself what joy it was to be doing something so joyous as making music. Then the CD was complete. Finished. The end left a hole of time that I got lost in. Then NYC happened. We used every second. Savored every minute. We fell in love with the city and were present to each moment. Then home to realize that the extravagance of free time has come at the price of ignored chores. There's always a price for everything. As I look around, the time has come to pay the piper. Must Do. Must Do. Must Do Chores.

Car Rain

I don't have a working a/c in my car so I drive around with four windows down. It's not been horrible lately with cooler than average temperatures. The point being that all four windows were down and it rained last night. Poured. Yeah. I sat on towels this morning and still got wet.

hump

Wednesday. I felt healthy enough to get my butt back to work. I like my day job. I'm early morning guy and like getting up in the dark. I'm a regular at the QT where I get my coffee each morning from James. I usually stop and grab a 99 cent breakfast burrito fromVictor who works in the back a the fast food place I go. I'm a regular so we've got to know each other, give each other hell for fun. He stuck his head out the drive thru window this morning and asked where I'd been. He a good guy. Then I park it and read the paper. Sometimes I do the cross word. I'm addicted to the crossword. It's the only reason these days I subscribe to the Ft Worth Star Telegram. It's a crying shame how the content of the newspaper has diminished. I loved that newspaper. It's only a matter of time before it goes under like all the rest.

Day Off

Home Alone.

Sunday Morning Coming Down

I made the Tyler Morning Telegraph yesterday in regards to the Song of Faith Contest: http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20090725/RELIGION/907240371

This weekend sister and I are here in Tyler visiting Ma and Pa. Mom's memory has improved with the altimeter's medication and Dad is now taking a calcium supplement because the doctor's found his hip bone density is low. Even though we try to make it here every other weekend sometimes the short term changes from one trip to the next can be surprising.

Yesterday we traveled to Jacksonville TX for a big box full of vine-ripened tomatoes (the last of this summer season). Wow. These tomatoes are incredibly delicious. We eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Today for lunch we'll have them on homemade tacos. MMMmmmm good.

Jaida Dreyer

jaida dreyer asked me to be her friend on MySpace Music. Before her request I had four friends and one was a radio station. Yes, you can be friends with a radio station. My radio station friend is KNON. It's a cool community radio. Jaida Dreyer has a pretty face and Parton-esque voice. Do you think her name sounds sorta like a stripper's? I like her songs too. She's seems to be a straight shooter. She lives in Nashville. I became her 57,141st friend. She has a lot of friends. With Jaida Dreyer I now have five friends. It's not a lot. I should get out more. But it's nice to have a friend with a Barbie face and Dolly Paron-esque voice. I hope she likes me.

http://www.myspace.com/jaidadreyer

July 2009 almost history

Zoom zoom zoom.

I'm on my way to Tyler to see the folks. It's fun if only because they are so thrilled to see us even as we make the trip every other weekend.

New Day

The most beautiful gray clouds filled the sky. The parched Texas earth cooled. I went to the Doc today. He is young and has perfect teeth. He wears large square-toed black shoes with jeans. He listened to my complain and ran a test. He loves to run tests. This test result will take a week. I gave him a copy of Fedrick, not Fred. He promised to listen to it on his way home. I had a spare copy of Fedrick not Fred in my car. I hope it's not the blank one. I'm thinking it is. I told him also that I've recently had a days when my l5 disc reared it's ugly head. He advised more pain meds. Sounds like a plan.