whew

so much for sleep. so much for rest. i thought i was going to be taking like 6 slow weeks in richmond before heading out to the new homestead. nope. i have picked up work for every weekend (most of them three days) that i am home. rough days too. 4 hours of sleep last nite, ill get about 3 tonite. i would be getting a little more this evening but i am going to see the indigo girls. i maybe shouldnt have taken the show for tomorrow but im kinda trying to pay for $234235 in gas for my move. hey guess what, im going to see the indigo girls. oh yeah and iron maiden in just under three weeks.

my trailer hitch and bike rack came in, i put them on yesterday after soundcheck. now i just need my tv back and my AC fixed in my car.

Life in the hills

so i just finished a three day bluegrass festival that was preceded with a day of load in and followed by one day of load out. 5 days in the mountains of maryland but only a treeline away from west va. no real cellular service. just lame and stupid. i hate hippies.

hippies are all well and good until they get so high and drunk that they turn into assholes. they stand in your way and dance their stupid little non rhythmic dances and blow bubbles and smell bad. BO, pot, and patchouli. horrible. i hate that they get high right next to families with kids. they have no care or consideration for the people around them that might be there to enjoy the bluegrass. assholes. i hope they all just collapse and die.

the music was, on average, very good. bela fleck was there, chris thile, vince gill. lots of people. the weather was amazing. it was just a long weekend outdoors and you all know how i am with that. the scenery was the best part though. this picture doesnt do it justice because it was with my phone. we were beside a mountain. not a hill. it was a mountain. it was neat looking.

 

damn it

im supposed to wake up in 4 hours and 25 minutes to go to work. the first work i have done in damn near two weeks. i am not happy about it nor am i prepared. i am glad that it is a 4 hour trek. hopefully i will be able to sleep on the way. i will be out of VA for 4 days. i think i will leave my computer. it will be the first time i have ever left it.

i am only like half as good at tetris as i thought.

and GONE

so the tv people called. they picked it up yesterday evening and called me later on to tell me that if they replace the part new it will be like 400 bucks total. if they replace it used they can maybe get it in there for about half. they are going to take a few days and try to track down a part and we will see. in other news of spending money i just bought a trailer hitch for my car. i have one on the bumper but it can only handle a third of the weight as the one i bought. i also got a bike rack. grand total of 360 bucks after tax. wow. i've done my part with my check... ya know "stimulating" the economy.

new stuff

today has been good so far. i woke up the the UPS man. i dont mean wake up to him like i would tell a woman i want to wake up to her, i mean he rang the door bell. he had my panoramic picture of richmond and my new cd rom for my computer. awesome. i havent been able to burn cds on my computer for like, a year or more. so when this tour ended one of the first things i did was order a new drive. ITS AWESOME. its what they call slot loading, much like your car stereo or a mac. its so much faster than my old one... and it burns cds. sweeeet. of course, since it wasnt made for my computer it sits back in the laptops chassis a little more but that is perfectly ok with me, it just means its not going to get scratched. the picture is nice too.

oh yeah, and i got my stimulus check in the mail too.

its nice to know

man i feel good. i ran into a friend tonight that i havent seen in months. he basically jumped on me to confess to me. he was all super excited to tell me about how i changed his life. he said i was the inspiration for his work ethic and i gave him the ability to believe that he could do what he loved for a living instead of some job he hated. he even quoted something i said to him years ago. wow. im glad hes happy. it certainly makes me feel like i did something, like maybe even though im a tardo and dropped out of high school and went chasing a dream of living on a bus, i did something right. its so fucking neat to know you helped someone do something. i am smiling.

so much for air conditioning

okay so i was going to get the ac in my car fixed. i had planned on spending that money. i dont think i can now. my tv broke. my big beautiful tv just stopped working. im freaking out inside and i think i want to die. its like i lost a brother. repair guys suck too. they want 100 bucks just to look at it. before they even turn it on, they want 100 bucks. AND they cant come look at it til tomorrow AND if thy dont have parts it could be up to 2 weeks until my tv works again.

you know me, impatient. im already looking at new tvs online. FUCK.

richmond

i bought this so i wont miss home too much

day 2

day one was mothers day. i saw mom. it was nice. i love her.

day two was today. i woke up to the phone. i spent a lot of my day on the phone. i watched three movies, i ate popcorn and rice and drank water and beer. good fucking beer. i played video games. i walked back and forth from my sofa to my bed and never figured out which was more comfortable. it is my promise to you that by then end of the next two weeks, i will have an answer to that question.

lease runs up a little earlier than i thought. a whole month earlier. i dont think i belong here anymore. im not 100% sure where i do belong but i know its not here. i came home to my things... but i didnt come home to a home. after the december tour i figured something out.... it doesnt matter to me where my things live. that 6 day period i didnt go outside and my car battery died, it woke me up. i need to get out of richmond. sorry mom, amy, whoever else reads this who loves that i come home to richmond. i need to be somewhere else. i have two places in mind. one makes sense, one doesnt. the one that doesnt make much sense just seems to make more sense.... i know, thats retarded... im retarded. i love ..... a lot. i have three days to decide if i want this apartment anymore.

i want to be crazy and not make sense and i want to be happy that i made that decision. nite.

a new love

seriously, christina ricci, i waited like 15 years for you to call me, and you havent, so i am giving my heart to this one. yes, i have a new love.

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i hated this blog. i deleted it.

the end is in sight

in less than 6 hours we will be hearing "thank you good night" for the last time on this tour. im unhappy about that. one month is never enough, but i guess when nature calls, it calls. im going home for a long time. its always nice to see your actual family i guess though i will most certainly miss this one. its grown. we added a friend to the crew, we made friends with other bands, we shot the living crap out of a trash can in our back lounge. hell, we shot the living crap out of each other. we even stopped shaving for a while. a lot happened in a little amount of time. much much more than will happen in a month at home. though i am certainly excited about seeing the indigo girls in richmond. but my heart is here, or there, or which ever place the tour bus takes me.

yesterday was a neato day. our only house of blues on this tour. it was wonderful. the awesome part was the alligator farm behind it. if you have a backstage pass you can get in free. so i took advantage. here are some pictures. they are with my phone, so im sorry if they look like poop. at least they look like alligator shaped poop.

 

 

 

 

i went to a movie last nite. iron man. it was great. thats not my story. my story is that i wore khaki cargo shorts. i went in the bathroom to wash my hands before going in to the film. when i leaned against the sink to get some paper towel.... the sink was wet and my shorts got soaked right in the "area". fuck. i bought popcorn and went in to the movie and sat down. once i was done my popcorn i put the bag on the floor. as i did that noticed (even in the dark) the wonderful new grease stain on my shorts from the bottom the bag. mother fuckers. unlike the water, the grease wont dry with time. so instead of going out and looking like a pissed my pants, i opted to go back to the hotel.

the bus was parked on a hill yesterday. kinda made it feel like yogi's cave at kings dominion.

ok, so im in lancaster, pa today. we havent even played the show yet but i know the best part of the day.... watching this box of beer travel into my bus. the even better part of that is that i have the day off tomorrow. im not going to put a dent in this case, im going to total it. between tonight and tomorrow, someone get this case some crutches cus im gonna fuck it up.