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Post 1600, Day 43 of 2016
- 1,869 days since I started this blog -
- 1,869 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
Tonight I went against all my instincts - except one - and drove forty-five minutes to Oswego to play a gig with I am Fool.
Normally, this would be completely consistent with all my feelings, ideals and beliefs. Playing music I love to play with people I love. Doesn't get much better. But...
The weather forecast was downright scary. Sometime during the evening, we'd be seeing snow and high winds, up there on the banks of Lake Ontario. And bitter cold temperatures, with the high winds making a wind-chill factor of something like thirty-to-forty degrees below zero.
Everything about that forecast screamed, "Don't go!" The mitigating factor was an unusually early eight-to-eleven pm schedule for the gig. That meant, there was a possibility of getting out before things got really bad.
I get very frightened by the prospect of having to drive in a snowstorm.
And then I thought, the car's in good shape. Four friends are depending on you. It's the first gig at a club that believes in the band, without having heard us play - they booked us for four gigs this winter, tonight being the first. And, fear comes from living in the future. It'll be fine, I decided. I mean, Music!
The drive up was easy. Cold, a little windy, roads were clear. Load-in, was problem-free.
By the end of the first set (with zero customers in the bar), it was snowing hard. By the end of the second set, it was still snowing hard, but horizontal. The winds had kicked in.
Which is when people started showing up! I knew it was going to be okay when a guy in a Philadelphia Flyers hockey jersey and shorts started shoveling the path, and laying down salt.
Oswego. Best snow-town party people around.
So, load-out was a bit of a bear, it was cold and snowing and windy and cold. We had to push Tami's car to get it on the road. The drive home was slow, very slow, but accepting that, not too scary. But this is the kind of thing that brings friends closer together.
And, you know, Music!
Food and Diet Section
Today's Weight: 199.8 lbs.
Today's Weight: 199.8 lbs.
Previous Weight (2/11): 200.0 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 0.2 lbs.
Diet Comment
No change is fine with me today.Diet Comment
Skipped.
Lunch
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| Omelet with peppers, onion, greens, cheese and bacon. |
A little popcorn and birthday cake.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 2; Coffee: 24 oz.; Water: 60+ oz. And a shot of Jameson's Irish whiskey, neat.
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I hate snow. I hate driving in snow. I hate walking in snow.
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