february 7th 2014: shot down and pissed on

i was feeling pretty good when i got up. a lot less stress was on my shoulders after the show and it went over well. 

starting the day with my "off-day" workout. i went up to 35's all around so thats pretty good. if i remember right, thats where i was for sitting and standing curls. preacher curls still needs a bit of work though. i definitely remember working out with a 90 bar and im quite a ways from that. things ended pretty early so i sat and watched basketball for a while. sitting. thinking.

talks and insights with brandon about things. he's one of the people that i like to have conversation with. it sucks the way things played out with his move and how he feels about it, but even more so because its not something we can just undo. 

borderlands 2 with james graves. i keep up with my emails while i play and i see what and exclaim, "its too soon to play summer holidays!" its out of context and i realize just how it came off when he questions what im talking about. 

ive been spending more time hanging out with people and in a way i dont like it. its fun, but its just not quite what i want to do with my time sometimes. i like to put my 'day job' behind me after its over, but this doesnt help me do that. 

i talked to the black guy at the food counter for a while about guitar lessons and stuff. that might be fun. then i went on to talk to ethan and jed and ended up getting another show booked. thats cool and all, but with all the issues that me being around has brought up its hard to get too excited about it. 

it makes the most sense for me to be on the low end of things. i practice with them and am all right at playing, but the main thing from my perspective is that they only need one guy on that and they had one. however, if he isnt playing really and its not exactly a band...is this really an issue?

february 6th 2014: a lot to go through for free water

sometimes i feel like im able to get away with a little more at times. not because im anybody special, just by the way i present things or whatever. todays high point was pretty entertaining:

someone: so what time does the show end?

me: a little bit after the last song, but i dont have the specifics.

*laughs all around*

just to make sure nothing bad came out of it for anybody i followed up to say that it shouldnt be more than an hour, or we'll be making things up. more laughs. exit stage.

practicing the setlist over lunch. i use lunch loosely as all i had was chips and spongebob gummy bears.

at the end of the day i rush home to change and things before pasta night. i was a little late because i totally overlooked the shirt i wanted. i saw it and recognized that i wasnt sure what it was, but moved on. when i saw the shirt that i thought the previous one was...i still didnt question it.

pasta night wasnt great. i accidentally ate some pizza with ham on it. of all the nights... luckily all that passed before the show.

things went pretty well. we got some good reviews for the most part. and i got to sign some things so that was pretty cool.

but for every up, theres a down... the fallout of everything is just...i dont want it.

february 5th 2014: i aint mad at cha

skipping the morning workout and being late to work, but on time for class.

class was a little better, but that doesnt say much. it was still boring.

last night of practice before the big show. closing up shop at 11 and pretty content with things. i went over the setlist again when i got home and worked on the additions.

over the last day or so i loosely followed up on the chili peppers super bowl thing. apparently their performance may have been a little too amazing. turns out that they had been forced to be unplugged. reading into that for a bit. i get it. and i aint mad at ya

february 4th 2014: half time at half time

the first emails i saw of the day were about comments on an old facebook video. when i stuff like that happens i wonder what made them look for it. from there i went on to look for the double pull up video with the pittman, but couldnt find it.

off to test. it didnt seem like it would be hard had i studied.

at the half way point i went home and watched the half time show from last night. i was hoping for more chili peppers, but oh well. the way josh was moving and playing was amazing.

finishing up testing. this round was entertaining in a way. in another way it was depressing and made me miss the past and dislike the now.

practicing songs. emailing jerrod. dealing with rent changes. working out before a game that didnt happen.

a little tnt. with a new host? making dinner and listening to the black keys. all too often i forget about bands that i shouldnt forget about. watching archer and chozen. apparently patrick swayze is dead. 

in other news moms thinking of coming around. wonder how thats going to go...

watching the arnold body building movie to share a segment with constas. i had to watch so much of that...it was very gay.

february 3rd 2014: sitting in my class with my head on my desk...

taclan class started today and it was not very good. im thinking this will be a brutal three weeks.

at some point in the day im asked to fill in for kenny's church on thursday. didnt see that coming. i agreed to it without thinking not too much of it. im going to have some work to do to get myself comfortable with all the songs, but im kind of looking forward to the challenge. after all, its been a long time since i started playing and people have told me i do all right for myself so i should be able to pull this off.

after work i waited around for practice and talked to brittenny for a while and send out some emails. she really makes me question my sense of humor at times.

practicing songs. things are getting real.