Friday, November 25, 2005
Inverse Of Free Time
There must be a law in physics by some genius, Alberto von Newtonstienarino, or somebody. A law that says that no matter how much free time you get, you'll fill it was so much stuff it won't seem free at all. In fact you'll feel like you have even more to do than when you were a self proclaimed busy person. Call it Newtonstienerino's Law of Inverse Free Time.I'm alone this holiday. Don't weep for me, Blogland-artina. Cathy took a last minute flight to San Jose to be with her daughter. Motherhood never, ever stops. I'm not complaining. Just stating an obvious fact. Besides missing my best friend, companion and life mate, (otherwise known as devoted wife) I thought I'd get a lot done. And so I have. But not yet the stuff I intended to get done.
There outght to be a law against letting unchaperoned musicians into guitar stores with credit cards. After dropping Cathy at the airport I took a guitar amp over to Sam Ash Music Center, which just happened to be on the same road. I sold it to them and used it for a deposit on a new Taylor T-5 guitar. It seems this guitar is so hot you can't try one unless you buy one because they can't keep them in the store that long. Okay, I ordered one. Merry Christmas to me. But maybe I won't like it and they'll gladly take it back because there are 150 people in line behind me waiting to get their hands on one. Airport and music store took most of the afternoon.
Power nap interrupted twice by phone calls. Caffeine late in the day means Exedrin PM at night. I had to go nail down some gigs. Which I did. I am now booked solid from now to Easter. Our tourist season. This meant a dinner at Althea's Restaurant with the owner, Greg. That worked out the details of my twice weekly dinner gig schedule there. Three trips to Stir the Soul Coffee House just to work out the dates on two December gigs. I'm drinking decafe by this time but that will still wake me up in the middle of my REM sleep.
I have room for a few more dates in the midweek area of my schedule. This is a good thing. My guitar student roster is also growing. I really need to find a high school kid to intern for me in exchange for free guitar lessons. I need an intern to collect e-mail addresses and sell CD's at my gigs. I can't do that stuff while I play. For me, playing the guitar and singing IS multitasking. Adding anything else to that is professional suicide.
So all this stuff is keeping me from finishing any of my own music. I REALLY HAVE TO FINISH MY OWN MUSIC. I have more loose ends than a land without latex.
So I know I promised something exciting for Friday but NOT THIS FRIDAY.
And now I will get the hell off-line and crawl back into my schedule of things I should be doing besides blogging. Have a splendid weekend, folks.
posted by Bud @ 5:24 AM
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