Reverend Ken's Blog: #1428, Friday, May 15: Another problem to be grateful for

Friday, May 15, 2015

#1428, Friday, May 15: Another problem to be grateful for

Post 1428, Day 135 of 2015
- 1,596 days since I started this blog -

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If time isn't real - just a perceptual construct - then the need for a calendar should be purely aesthetic.

I have a fondness for all things numeric. Including calendars, and budgets. I remember numbers better than names (I can still remember my original New York State Driver's license number, which I last used in 1986, and not since: K05432955081212-50). I make spreadsheets for fun. And, I have done my own taxes, tracked my expenses against a budget since the early eighties.

Others, though, aren't like that. Most others. Especially musicians.

I forget that all the time. I keep a calendar for myself of course. I have also created calendars for the bands I'm in to track gigs and availability. Of course, I am dealing with other people who aren't that organized, and who don't like numbers much.

In the last few days, Chad (Bradshaw Blues) has booked three gigs that I can't play. In every case, I had put my unavailability on the group calendar. But that only helps if that calendar is used.

Chad is pissed off about it, though. He didn't check the calendar, didn't know I couldn't play those gigs. He made plans he felt good about, I screwed them up, now he's upset with me.

He knows there are going to be conflicts between Bradshaw Blues and i am Fool. He also knows that those conflicts will not be resolved in his favor. I made that clear the first time he asked me to play with him, and he agreed. No new news.

Of course, he doesn't like it and doesn't have to. I wouldn't be happy with the situation, either, which is why I told him straight off that it was a condition of our playing together. I have been fired from bands who agreed to this condition, but changed their minds the first time a conflict came up.

So it goes. Chad will get over it. I get over that stuff (Chad's anger) pretty quickly these days. The time to get over this kind of thing is approaching 'real-time' for me.

It's something else I'm grateful for. I'm also grateful for being so busy that occasionally I have to make choices about what to do - It's good to have to choices to make.

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