Monday July 24 2006
So I had breakfast at the hotel, and it was continental. I had some cereal and some hard boiled eggs with salt and I felt kind of self concious because I was the only one eating hard boiled eggs out of everyone, and they were looking at me like I was from Mars! But then Grimey ate one. Went back to my room and watched some “Cops” and put one my ipod and charted “Let’s Go” by the Cars, and I was going to chart the Van Halen song, but something told me we wouldn’t do it, because it was kind of complicated, so I didn’t. I get the best sleep in hotels! Even though the bed isn’t as nice as mine at home, there’s no distractions! There aren’t dishes to be done, or mail to be sorted, all the stuff that stands in my way at home. So I took a pretty long nap and it was really restorative. Went to the lobby and got on the shuttlebus to the Hyatt and we stopped at a liquor store and everybody bought booze. Mine was Jack Daniels and it came with some craps dice, so I taught Jen Gunderman how to play craps, and she promptly took all my money I had left. We set up at the hotel and my bass rig was not right so they sent for another one. Sound-checked and pretty much played right away, and the sound man was kind of inept, but the show overall was good. A highlight for me, was when Kristy West started line-dancing to “9 to 5″ and got everyone to line dance! It was so surreal. Finished and went back to our hotel and got in the pool and swam for a while and went to bed. No dinner, but a fun night.