Wednesday Septmeber 27 2006
Got up early and I was chomping at the bit to go walk, and Leslie was going with us and at 7:55 she was like “Can I Sleep?” and I can be so annoying in the morning because I wake up just full of enthusiasm. Especially after I’ve had some tea. But she got up and we did the big walk, then went to breakfast at Athens and it was okay. I had a mushroom and swiss omelette and rye toast ($5.75) and I didn’t have coffee. I don’t like coffee anymore. Customer to waiter: “If this is coffee, I’ll have tea. If this is tea, then I’ll have coffee.” Then I really wanted to get the XM radio working so I emailed Kate Bradley, but I got an automated response that said she was out, so I finally read all the paperwork, and I figured out (duh!) that you can authorize it online! Sheesh! Why didn’t I read the stuff! Anyway, it came on in like 15 seconds after I did that, and I love XM radio. It’s so great. Decided to put flat-wounds on the Telecaster and went to Corner Music and they are re-modelling. 3 sets strings ($28) and boy was that a good call. That guitar is so much better with those. Practiced Butterfly’s stuff for a while and took a nap for an hour. Leslie made some veggie corn dogs, and had a peach Snapple. John called from Baja Burritto, but I was trying to get organized, so I said maybe tomorrow. Went to rehearsal and it sounded good. John had learned all the keyboard parts from the record, and Butterfly was pleased. Then he was doing this funny Australian accent, and he can really do it well. We were all cracking up. Took Butterfly home and picked up Leslie and went to the Family Wash, and we got lost trying to find the damn thing because we went straight when we were supposed to turn right. For once I was right about directions somewhere. See, Leslie gets over-confident sometimes, and that can come back to bite you in the ass. We finally found it, but it’s like the wild west in there. Nobody waited on us for about 15 minutes. But Curt was sounding good. When we came in, they were playing “Lowdown” by Boz Scaggs. What a song. We ordered some shepards pie and I talked to Doug Lancio and Warren Pash, and Marc Pisapia, and Carrie, and Chad Brown is so damn talkative. He’s funny, though. Curt’s second set was nice, and I liked Reeves Gabrel’s guitar playing. Leslie met some Belmont student and was talking to him for about a half hour. I was just floating around the room. But I was ready to go, and I was so damn full of shepard’s pie I felt like I was going to explode. Yuck. We left, and Chad Brown said: “She’s too cute to be leaving with you!”