Tom Verlaine Traveling was an earworm this morning. It’s a song that made its way onto various mixtapes that I made way back when, in 1984. I can think of at least three people who got mix tapes with that song on them. It is a good song, I like it, but in hindsight, perhaps I overplayed it myself. I remember my brother played the import album of Cover on his radio show on WFMU.

And I had mentioned to him that I couldn’t believe that Tom Verlaine still had an American record contract, and someone, I think it was Mike Mountain, phoned up Frank, my brother, to let him know that he shouldn’t say things like that because Tom Verlaine was probably listening and that he still had an American record contract. Which, in fact, he did.

This morning, the PATH train was not running from Hoboken to Manhattan due to track breakage, which meant I had to take the bus and then a subway, which was a hassle, but I still got to work a few minutes early.

Marcus had a lot to say this morning, which is odd since Marcus rarely speaks in the morning, but we had an interesting talk about online shopping and buyer’s remorse. Then it was an online meeting with my peers, and it was also announced that I would be working at NYC 14/11 Penn Plaza for a few days next week, which is what I did yesterday, and didn’t like i,t so my discomfort will be stretched out to a few days next week.

I, of course, have no say in the matter, and we’ll have to go no matter what. I took a photograph of myself and found that I looked so much like my late brother Frank, it was unnerving. I sent it to my sister, who responded with omg. Mike was supposed to have his beloved visit again this weekend he couldn’t make it last weekend, and so this weekend he’s not making it again.

And Mike seems okay with it. It does seem to be a bit much, but that’s what he wants and that’s what he’s getting, which is nothing. I suppose I could take photographs with him on Saturday if he’d like, if he asks, but he has not, and as the date approaches, the window of opportunity gets smaller and smaller.

Just had some words with a man wearing a Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Love Earth t-shirt. He had more teeth in his head than I do, but his crucial teeth in the front were missing. A former Roman Catholic, he claimed that he predicted the shutdown of the government was going to happen and heard it as it happened. I asked for $1, and I gave him two. He asked for five, and I said no.

I tried to drink coconut water at least once a week to prevent leg cramps. Sometimes that coconut whatever lasts two weeks, I believe I had one last week, a can of coconut water, only to be disturbed this morning while sleeping with a leg cramp, but it was severe enough to get my attention.