Saturday, November 20, 2004
Uphill Momentum Loses Pounds
The intensity builds but it's like an uphill avalanche. I keep pushing it along. It hits a little valley and builds momentum to get half way up the next side before I have to start pushing again. From time to time I have to remind myself that I'm doing this for fun. But it is, really. I also have to keep it on the back left corner of my brain that you can't put yourself out in the public without taking some stones thrown your way. That's the way it was in college when I wrote a weekly column. That's certainly the way it was when I ran the teachers union newsletter and wrote a column and the whole damn thing. That's surely like it was every year I taught. So I can handle this. The alternative is not something I can live with. Couch sitting, watching TV AND a growing waistline is not a spectator sport I choose to patronize. Then I'd have to learn to swing a golf club around a beach ball formally know as my gut. That is not a lifestyle that seems very attractive to me.I've lost 14 pounds since early September when I started counting everything I put in my mouth. Knowledge is power. I'm slowly getting back to the weights and will probably bulk up but it will be muscle, now that I finally lost last Christmas's fat. I think it's better to make Thanksgiving resolutions. I resolve not to eat any of the stuff people offer me over the holidays.
Back to the marina today and hopefully tomorrow unless they double booked me again. It's fun to watch these heavy duty sales types selling boat condos around a shrimp frier while I provide soothing background music. A boat condo, I kid you not, is a big shelf to store your cabin cruiser on. A godzilla-sized forklift picks it up and plunks it in the water for you when you want to use it. I can see a spin off industry in decorating boat condos since part of the fun of having a boat, if indeed there is any, is in sitting in it and not using a month's supply of fuel.
Two other gig offers came my way last week at this event. I'll follow up on those this weekend. Also I agreed to do three months, two nights a week, at Althea's. January through March when the snowbirds fly home. They love me there. I've made no effort to book anything else around Venice as I've put all my energy into finishing the CD. I'm feeling like I need to tweak a few vocals this Tuesday. If I don't make a Christmas release, it'll be mildly disappointing but I'll be better for the decision. For the most part, though, I like what I hear a lot.
posted by Bud @ 6:58 AM
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