So as I'm reading this book, the overall theme seems to be that we've been brainwashed into making drinking a part of everything fun.  It's such a crutch that of course it feels like drinking needs to be done.  The strategy is not willpower, but instead realizing that we can enjoy life and its moments without drinking like we used to at a younger ( Read more... )

Shows are going well, sales are going pretty well.  I have 5 books left for 2 shows tonight and 25 waiting at home in a UPS box for Chattanooga.  I'm going to the gym today here in Columbia.  My friend Cyndi gets me in for free.  No place to swim though, it'll be 106 again.  

Yesterday was the first day that I've wanted a drink in 3 weeks.  At shows they're free.  I usually get something at Deja Vu though since I have to drive 8 minutes back to the hotel I never get ripped.  Rahn, the headliner, drove last night and wants to drive again tonight.  This figures.  Ten years ago at this club I'd be hammered afterwards ( Read more... )

There's a chance the headliner I'm working with can get me into the Columbus Funnybone for Thanksgiving week which would be perfect (other than the 7 hour drive home that Sunday night  when I have to teach the next morning).  It'd be worth it though.  It pays well, I could sell lots of merch in time for Christmas, and Beth and I would have a place ( Read more... )

I'm okay now.  I'm okay.

I find myself forcing myself to relive my mother's death this week just because it feels like it should be a greater pain, but one I already know how to handle.

So I was supposed to work with a large black woman named Roz G this week in Columbia, MO.  I was supposed to pick her up from the airport and be her transportation as well as opener all week which would give me an extra $200 for driving her.  I just called her, she had no idea the gig was this week and said she just had a stroke and got out of the ( Read more... )

Day 12...will probably end this weekend though mildly.

http://dontwearshortsonstage.com/2012/06/11/so-why-cant-we-wear-shorts/

I know, I shouldn't judge...someone on Facebook is posting pictures of a guy getting baptized from their church in a river.  The guy getting baptized is wearing a Denver Broncos t-shirt.  How many hangers did he go through?  "Big Johnson tee?  Nope...  Budweiser?  Naa.  Ahh, Tebow played for these guys, this'll work!"