Getting back to business

I spent a week from Sunday to Sunday in Durant with Sara. Durant's a nice place, but I'm gonna like it more when she doesn't live down there. I must admit, the relative privacy of having a semi-long distance relationship is nice sometimes. Though I'm certainly always happy to see her and the commute is a real killer. More to the point, it will be nice not to have to totally put everything in the Norman/OKC metro on hiatus just to see my lady. 'Cause it takes a couple days, usually, to settle back into things.

Aaaaaaaaaand on that note... I finally repealed my hiatus from stand-up comedy last night in the interest of making Paul and Jenn laugh. They were down here and thankfully I got to see them for three straight days. My family from a different family is always welcome in my part of the world. We went to karaoke after my set at Othello's and I took a stab at Duran Duran to make Paul smile. The bridge to "Rio" is fun to sing at full volume, but I might've looked like a jackass doing it. Ah well.

Music itself is coming along, by and by. I finished writing a song for Album #2 yesterday afternoon called "Echoes and Reflections", a throwback to my single man days and the fun game of What Did I Say / How Much Do I Regret It? I also have my drums set up in the apartment and I'm getting my feel for the instrument back. I have to be careful not to practice drums more often than I play guitar, though. Drums are tricky because they're so fun to play, yet they basically just make you spin your wheels if you have ambitions beyond being somebody's drummer. Fuck being somebody's drummer, a thousand times.

Tim might want to play bass with me. Caleb McGee wants to do some music. Paul has my old Peavey now and wants to do a long-distance collaboration band. I still can't find a dependable keys man or drummer to save my life, though. My Band [Nights and Weekends? Cameron Ferguson and The Context? Who knows] is still at technically a dead standstill. But that's okay because I just keep writing and getting better at my songs. One of these days.

Oh, and I need to find a day job for May because I just barely scraped by in April and lord knows I could use some just-for-fun money.