Last night I did get the sleep I required. It was a good night’s sleep for about 7 hours or so and I woke up refreshed with nary any dread.

Jimmy Chile is out today. He texted me last night and he was upset about Ozzy Osbourne’s passing. I worked with Ozzy in the ’90s and the man was toast. He could barely formulate a sentence but if you put him in front of a microphone he was on. I can’t say I was much of a fan of Black Sabbath or Ozzy Osbourne although quite a few of my friends were and there was even a Black Sabbath song on the jukebox back in the day at 1039 Washington Street which to my surprise had a few of my friends singing along to.

Mike is somewhere around Penn Plaza interviewing for a job at Madison Square Garden and he so desperately needs the job that he should take whatever job is offered to him as soon as the words leave the interviewer’s mouth.

I will be working in that neighborhood next Wednesday and I am not looking forward to it since I do enjoy working where I am at now. But a price must be paid for the freedom that I have so it’s a relative, meager amount to pay.

I did hear from Mike earlier as he was getting off the Path train headed over to Madison Square Garden but he did not exactly know where it was. He has limited resources whereas I have a little bit more than he has so I do the research before I have to go somewhere and that is because I have more resources than he does.

Bill was up when I left and gave me the hug. He did not sleep well last night so maybe we’re trading off good nights of sleep versus bad nights of sleep. I certainly hope that is not the case.
I’m coming up on the first anniversary of restarting this here blog.

The only people I mentioned it to were Rand and Lisa and that was in October and I don’t think they said anything to anyone. I do recall in November mentioning the podcast idea while waiting to see the Luther Vandross documentary to Rand who never responded to the initial response. So very Rand.

This is an awkward day though not by my hand or by my doing…Jimmy Chile is out today and he’s usually a good buffer between me and Marcus so there’s no buffer between me and Marcus.

It is yet another beautiful day. I did my shuffle around Union Square, picked up a piece of chocolate bread and now I sit and smoke my mini cigar.

Bill just sent a text from his dentist office where they removed a tooth and he’s numb in half of his face and his eye. It is an experience that I have had a few times and now look at me with nothing but prosthetics except for five teeth.
Mike is coming over today to spend the night to prepare for a Zoom call interview that he has tomorrow. He has a lead on a very decent job, and he has to get past their background check, but that will be that. If they do, it’s for an immediate hire, and he needs to be hired immediately
I am sure I’ll find out more when I meet him by the park on the river, Pier A.

I do love these mini cigars, but they tend to fall apart with the slightest look. I need to find a better mini cigar.