Yesterday’s News Tomorrow | johnozed

Finally Friday arrives. And it’s a very hot day. I guess it’s hot everywhere, possibly excepting Arcata where it’s never hot. Lois stopped by the other night to practice something with Bill. I know about it, but can’t write about it, sworn to secrecy I am.

It was fun having her over. Initially I was anxious since Lois had never been here before but once she was here, she mentioned it was like 201 Madison Street and also 1124 Willow Ave, 2 apartments I had lived in previous. I enjoyed making her laugh. When Bill had sung a song, I looked at Lois and said, ‘Do you see what I have to put up with?’

I love making Lois laugh. I love making women laugh. If I was straight I think I would do really well since they say one way to get to a woman is humor. But since I’m not straight, most of my humor gets lost on gay men I meet and forget about lesbians, they don’t get me at all. At least the lesbians I met at Bill’s old church, MCC.

Actually I have had some fun with lesbians in the past, but that was a long time ago. Last century stuff.

Last night Bill and I watched the usual. Olbermann, Stewart and Colbert. On the Daily Show was Ben Wattenberg, an old dinosaur who was just an idiot. Jon Stewart definitely bit his tongue throughout the interview out of respect for the grandfatherly type across from him. Stephen Colbert had Crosby, Still and Nash on.

Surprisingly David Crosby is looking well as is Graham Nash. Stephen Stills seems like a true burn out, and only really came to life while playing and singing. Colbert was very funny with his Neil Young put downs and also did a pretty good job of harmonizing with CSN.

10:00 comes around and it’s bedtime for Bill. I watched Fear Itself again which is that Night Gallery type show. It was predictable as usual. Look out, Dad’s a zombie. Actually possessed by a demon but he likes to eat people so he’s a zombie. I lost interest towards the end and don’t remember how it turned out, I was that disinterested.

Tomorrow is Lois and Fred’s wedding party and it looks like it will be a fun time. John and Donna from Tiny Lights will be there, as well as Jane and a few others from the past. Bill rented a Zip Car and we’ll be riding up with Rand and Lisa as passengers. We expect to hit the road at 9:00 tomorrow, and I’m trying to get the right cd’s to bring since the car isn’t iPod compatible.

Of course, after writing that I start to look for the best cd’s to bring and of course, there is one cd that I can’t seem to find. It’s not in the loosely organized collection on the wall, and it’s not in the piles of cd’s near my computer. So I obsess on the missing cd. Still obsessing somewhat. I’ve decided to burn a copy instead of going crazy looking for it. Did I loan it to someone? If so, who?

Too hot to go crazy looking for it. Much easier and cooler to burn it. Other than that, not much else to report on this end. I doubt I’ll be posting tomorrow so you’ll have to occupy your minds with something else.

The race is on

The calve

Kitson sneakers

I found the cd. Scritti Politti- White Bread Black Beer.

Wow last night and today, the weather has been beautiful. Last night was a wonderful time on the Hoboken waterfront. Last night, as years previous, there was a performance of the Guitar Bar All Stars. My friend, guitarist extraordinaire, Jim Mastro is a co-owner of the store, the Guitar Bar and every year the employees, former employees and kids who take lessons there get together and play.

Last year was covers of songs of the British Invasion, though no Beatles and no Stones were performed. The year before was a cover of the Beatles Revolver. This year they decided to do songs from the video game, Guitar Hero.

As usual it was a lot of fun. And it’s good to see Jim again but for me and no offense to Jim, I just get a thrill out of seeing Meghan and their daughters Lily and Ruby. I got there a little after 7:30 and missed out on Lily playing two songs. I did catch Ruby playing with her dad to Should I Stay or Should I Go by the Clash. Ruby held her own and provided excellent backup vocals.

I enjoyed the show, hanging back smoking a Padron. I was in the cigar smoking section apparently as there were a few other guys smoking stogies. At some point towards the end, my LCD screen on my camera crapped out. I could still take pictures, but I couldn’t use the screen to see what I was shooting.

I could get the playback on the screen though and it worked perfectly for video. I was worried that I would have to send it in which could be a problem since I was hoping to take the camera to Lois and Fred’s soirée next Saturday.

I helped Jim and Meghan load their car with various things after the show and was home by 9:30 which was pretty good. I begged off going to the after party at a pub across the street from the Guitar Bar. Having had a few too many beers the other night I just went home. I uploaded a video of Ruby and the Guitar Bar All Stars last night and that took forever.

I also looked at the vacation photos my sister sent from their trip to Oregon. Looks like everyone had a great time and my nephew Earl looks like a real lady killer with his haircut.

Got up this morning, out the door and soon on a not so crowded bus. It’s summer and a lot of people take their Fridays off. I did last week and this was the first full week since June that I’ve worked. I knew it was going to be a quiet day, but I definitely had to be in before 8:30 when there was a scheduled meeting.

I was hoping to see some of Feist performing in Bryant Park but it wasn’t to be. I did walk through the park and saw a decent crowd but the band wasn’t playing yet and at that moment were behind some black screens on stage unseen by the audience.

Still, I had no time to check it out and was soon in the office. The meeting went off according to plan and was over by 9:15. I probably could have gone home then but stayed around to get things ready for next week.

I was also able to call up Canon and talk to a customer service technician about my camera. The warranty expired last month but I was still in a grace period until August. He suggested resetting the camera and if that didn’t work I would have to send it in, but if I did that I would have no camera for Lois and Fred. Luckily the reset worked and my camera was fully functioning again.

I left work at 1:45 and came home. Watched the Portishead Live in NYC dvd and it sounded great but was putting me to sleep. So I took a nap, perhaps too long and now I’m a bit foggy.

And now some extras…

Should I Stay or Should I Go