#1520, Wednesday, October 14: What's fun?

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Post 1520, Day 287 of 2015
- 1,748 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I have to laugh: This morning, the day after I started my Daily Comment with this: "I am a loner. An extroverted loner (is that an oxymoron?)", someone sent me an article on "extroverted introverts".

But, I digress.

I am having an excellent time at the open mic where I'm part of the host band. Last night was the second time I've sat in the bass chair, and there was a lot to be happy about. My house band mates are great musicians, and each one a friend as well.

My band Bradshaw Blues played a set. My djimbe-playing friend Ron showed up. There were a couple of good bands representing, and the band backed up a couple of guitarists, both new to me, as well.

That's what I do for fun.

Which is why I went to an open mic tonight. And have plans to go to one tomorrow.

At tonight's open mic, I backed up a Colombian twenty-something blues singer with tattoos on her breasts (low-cut blouse) singing 'Rather Go Blind', and 'Stormy Monday Blues' and a bluesier than Dylan version of 'Tom Thumb's Blues'. Along with me, a guitarist from one of the more successful local bands and a young drummer from a band waiting to perform. Without an open mic, I don't know that I'd ever get to play with the guitarist, but the whole lot of us put together a better-than decent set.

A couple of acts later, I'm back on-stage with a guitarist who usually plays keyboards. And a drummer I was completely unfamiliar with, doing the Who's 'Substitute', Beatles' 'Hello-Goodbye', and something I didn't recognize, that turned out to be a different take on 'Like a Rolling Stone'.

Nothing I'd ever played before. It was maddening, and an absolute blast.

This is what I do for fun.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   207.2 lbs

Previous Weight (10/13):          205.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                + 2.2 lbs

Diet Comment

Bad eating day yesterday, and I gained a kilo. Today? Back on track, at least until someone came around with cream cheese hors d'oeuvres.

Food Log

Breakfast
A Quest bar.

Lunch

Salmon salad (Wild Alaska pink salmon, celery, mayonnaise) on baby kale, baby spinach, chard and cole slaw mix.

Snack
Cream cheese roll-ups (hors d'oeuvres). Fail.

Dinner 
Cheeseburger with salsa, and a Quest bar.

Snack
A Quest bar.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 24 oz.;  Water: 64+ oz. and a shot of Jameson's.

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