TUESDAY

5:04 PM
Hey, what am I doing? I am stuck in traffic motherfucker. Oh my God. And I thought why not make a blog post.

Looks like it’s finally starting to move though a little bit.

Well, I got up about 1:45, I think I fell asleep about 6:00. And uh, Gosh.

Well, that’s about 7 hours of sleep, I think I got give or take right? And, uh,

Just kind of laid around.

Got up about 3:30. Got a shower. Left. Left, the house went to, uh, Sam’s Club and got a hot dog because I’m I’m on my last ten dollars.

Got a hot dog and the coke. It’s a164. I think a dollar 64.

Yeah, 1.64.

A dollar 64 cents.

$1.64. Oh yay. There’s the dollar sign. That’s the effort it took.

I guess I’m not going to be going to the gym today either. I don’t know, I didn’t go yesterday, it’s hard for me to do anything like that on a Monday. But uh,

God, I hate traffic. I do. And it was this bad. It wasn’t this bad yesterday but it was a really bad yesterday too. Uh, today it’s just it’s going to take me about

Am I in Madison yet? Am I even in Madison?

I don’t think I am. Yeah, I don’t think I’m in Madison yet, but uh, usually, you know, 20 minutes. Not even 20 minutes from Madison. It’s where I work and it’s probably going to take. It’s going to take a while. I don’t know, I looked on the map.

This sucks so bad. I hate it. Uh, because I thought, you know, I let I left in plenty of time.

But,

They’re not when there’s a big stupid wreck.

I guess.

I don’t know, I don’t know what else to say. Like, I don’t want to go off on a rant about my roommates. I would have to touch on like, the 1 I made, uh, password protected.

Uh and you know, like I’ll come back and I’ll talk all about it. When I’m I mean, I’m not like I’m over it a lot but it’s just disappointing. Because I have talked about in the past that I’ve had, oh, you know, I’ve got the most awesome roommates, you know, but they’re not really. Yeah, I don’t know. They don’t

They’re just people. They’re just my roommates, they’re not like my best friends or my family or anything. You know.

They’re not the worst people I’ve ever met.

It does look like this Lane is moving faster than the other lanes. I’m going to. I don’t think I can get over, though.

Oh, somebody let me over.

Somebody, let me over too somebody. Let me over too thanks. Yay. Me too me too.

Uh,

I think I want to try it. This person in front of me.

I don’t know though. They kind of Kind of didn’t make it. I’m sorry. Okay. Um Anyways, God this sucks. I hope I get to work at least by 5:30

Yeah. But I mean, That’s a big reason why I leave early as shit too. I left the house at like, 10:00 after 4:00 Yeah.

Um,

Oh gosh, the kids and I yeah, we went on a, we went to a concert. Or a show I guess I don’t know. I when I say concert I think of like a big venue. You know with lots of crap Uh, but it was like a show at a coffee shop in Atlanta.

Of for this artist, I thought it was a band but it’s just like, 1 person named, June Henry, and my friend Justin played with them, uh, a show with them last year, who thinks it was last year. And uh, it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. But it was a really, really long way away and Uh,

Dang, it just was a lot of fun though. It was worth it.

And my brain capacity right now is not helping. But um you know it was like a small thing and it was like uh it’s this person. And then an acoustic guitar. And uh, their partner or whatever with a mandolin sometimes. But they were funny. And entertaining and engaging and my son like we were right there in the front with my daughter is a huge Fan, huge fan, huge, huge, huge, and yeah, like June, Henry, and blood girl is what, uh, my daughter has listened to the most of This year. And like every time we go anywhere like that’s all we listen to is blood girl and June Henry

Um, I think it’s funny that Justin played a show with them though.

But anyways. Um, God, I hate traffic. Oh my God. Anyways, my brains

It inspired me a little bit because their songs June Henry’s songs are all like a bunch of songs, but they’re not long and my songs aren’t that long either. Most of my songs are about 2 minutes long.

And the good ones. Like I have some good ones that are like 4. I think crazy woman’s about almost 4 minutes.

Um, but I am with this paycheck. I’m going to get A pickup for my acoustic guitar. The nylon string guitar. And I’m going to uh I got a week and a half off next week and I’m going to record all of my songs in an album like make an album out of it. Uh, when that format, I’m going to put like, bass and Like some other shit to it and then I’m going to get it on Spotify. And YouTube music and ITunes and shit like everybody else has.

The opener band uh Sunday night. That’s when we went was Sunday, was so fucking horrible. They were called uh the Yankee roses and they were horrible. Like, you couldn’t have been that bad on purpose. Oh, they were so awful. And the, the, uh, singer was. This pretentious fucking gooya.

I said Guy but whatever that word that fits uh anyways. Haha He’s this guy. And he uh had a tuner on his guitar and he kept tuning his guitar, but his guitar Was Out Of Tune and not, I don’t think it was on purpose and his voice and his lyrics and his attitude was so fucking like Lame. I don’t know if he knew somebody, if he was like friends with like somebody that let him play, Like the rest of the band uh, the bass player and the drummer were really good. The there was some guy from some other band. He said playing keyboards. He introduced him was like somebody from some other band and he just stood there like he was like this big Chris Farley looking guy. Uh and he stood there and he would like like you know 1 or 2 notes with his finger on the keyboard and it was Didn’t go along with the rest of the music. It it clashed actually and uh, what we thought it sounded really bad. Um, Up front. Like we were right there at the front. Of, I guess the stage. Yeah. And uh, my son actually freaked out it was so bad that we had to like go. And uh, but as bad as I thought it sounded Up front. It sounded way worse. Uh, at the back of the venue, I, you know, I call it a venue. It was like this little coffee shop, but there was probably a 150 people packed in there and, uh, that reminded me a lot of, uh, this Cafe that. Me and my friends used to play at my friend. Justin who I just mentioned, we used to play there. You know, back in the late 90s.

But uh all that stuff though, it really did. It kind of like made me realize it’s like I’ve got to I’ve got to record my stuff and put it out and then just start playing stuff. Like if the you know these people do it. You know, like the only thing that’s really stops me from doing a lot of stuff like that is, uh,

Well, I’m just now getting to where I feel practiced up enough like where I can yeah. It’s taken some time, it really has and I have enough songs now and Uh, so I’m kind of excited about that. That’s what I’m going to focus on and doing stuff with the kids.

And it’s going to be a hoot.

And I have to get some studio monitors. I’m going to do that.

I was thinking about like cuz this check, I’ve got all my bills paid. So, uh,

Well except I’m going to have to pay my car insurance. Yeah. But I’ve got all my bills paid though so I’ve got like this whole check to spend on crap. But I really do, I have to get the studio monitors and I just remembered that.

Um which is like I’ve gotta reply to my friend Justin’s last email.

Uh, but yeah. Traffic man. Um, but that’s kind of the thing, too. Like all the stuff I can bitch about. I don’t really feel like talking about stuff. It’s like I’ve got a lot of other stuff to look forward to.

So that’s kind of good. Now I’ve got all this traffic.

But like my roommates, I don’t know, they’re just all really selfish and immature and their age range is, you know, from like the early 20s to their mid-50s and it’s like

Some of the stuff that they say and do, like not just in the group text but like on social media, especially 1 of my roommates and it’s like it just blows my mind. It’s like

Wow, you know, but I mean, why would they be anything different?

I don’t know, I’m just thinking like, I guess because I’m really impressionable and when I first moved in there, I thought they were just, you know, I was like, Yay, roommates. And uh, yeah, like I guess reality is kind of hit me the last month or so especially after I did all that painting for the, uh, the main roommate, I give money to it’s like, you know, It’s not that she’s a bad person or an awful person. I just thought a whole lot more of her than I should have. That’s like that’s kind of the thing. That was the whole point of that. You know, long story short with the post that I made password protected. I basically I just had put her up on a pedestal that, you know, because I was so grateful that she gave me a place to live. Well, she didn’t give it to me, I paid for it, you know, she let me move in there and uh I you know, was homeless and I was just so grateful for that that I just was like she’s just the most awesome best person in the whole universe, you know, 1 of them. And, Uh, well, you know, she’s she’s not, you know,

Just just

She’s really just Kind of okay? Yeah, I mean really, you know,

So anyways, enough about that that that was kind of that that’s kind of my point. Without going into details about how I was forced to make that conclusion. It was painful. Yeah, because I did I was just I had declared at 1 point that she was the best person I had met in the last 10 years. And uh, well, you know, she’s not the worst by any means. So whatever.

Um,

I just don’t know the next time she needs me to do some kind of like painting thing and I don’t think I’ve posted about that either like in any other post, but that 1 like that, I did this insane. Paint job for her. Like I repainted over this fucking abortion of a fucking thing. Uh, I spent my whole Thanksgiving holiday doing it when I could have been doing other things that I wanted to do.

5:19 PM
For her just for her. Uh I did like 12 to 1500 dollars worth of work for her for $250. Yeah, like you know, it was pretty ridiculous and it was totally lost on her.

Yeah. How much effort went into that? Like she didn’t care she just like, well I got all that done for $250, you know. Yeah, that’s oh my God. I at some point I guess I’m going to make that post unpassword protected because it, it really, I really go into detail about that. So yeah, anyways gosh, I’m in traffic. It’s uh

I’m just now getting into Madison. So, Yeah, I guess I’ll be lucky to get to work by 6:00.

It’s pretty ridiculous. Let’s uh,

Let’s switch on my Hotspot and check. Traffic status on my other phone.

God, this is the dumbest shit in the whole fucking world.

That’s the thing about uh, swing shifts, though, like

On night shift I hit all the traffic going to work and I don’t hit any traffic coming home and on day shift. I don’t hit any traffic going to work but I hit all the traffic coming home. And,

I just wish I was, this is usually about the time I get to work. It’s 5:21

Yeah.

Uh 29 minutes so I’ll get there almost 6:00.

I hate this stupid.

30 minutes. I’ll get there at 5:51.

God, I hate it.

Oh yeah, apparently everybody really likes the demonita this song.

Yeah. Like oh, that was kind of the thing. I sent a version of it to my friend Peter and that’s what piqued his interest. Uh, in playing bass with me. You know.

I need to holler at him.

Uh, later on about Jamming this weekend because I don’t have any plans.

Oh, and I broke a string though. Yeah. But I didn’t. I had set a can of, uh, the tamales.

Up. On, uh, the dashboard and when I turned a curve, Went around a curve leaving, work it fell and hit my guitar. And broke the fucking string. The string I had just replaced, but then it’s like I’ve got to have The loopy strings. I don’t know without going into detail about.

Uh, my guitar. To make the pickup for it to fit in there. So I don’t know, I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m just I’m stuck in traffic. I’m going to be in traffic for another 30 minutes or so, it sucks. I’ve mentioned that a way too many times, so I don’t know. I guess I’m going to wrap this up and probably message Peter and message Justin back. Yeah, because I’m going to have time

Yay.

Thank you, please.