Gutiar Lesson #2

Just got home from guitar lesson #2, I'm up to theoretically knowing how to play ten chords. Now if I could just get my fingers to take on a totally new shape.

Also, may have just had the best conversation with Comcast, ever. They actually were able to solve my problem. Amazing.

Beer Garden Season Officially Open

Spent last night at the Bell's Beer Garden.  Pretty much one of the best places on Earth, or at least Kalamazoo.  

Heading to Foster's soccer game in about 10 minutes, than off to the SW Side for some games of bags, and I'm sure some beer drinking.  

Hopefully the rain that's planned, won't happen.  Damn April showers.

Back at writing...

Been away from the blog for a while.... I won't get into it in detail but "distracted" and "led on" feels like enough to say about it.  Either way a little pain and a little heartache always  seem to fire up the creative juices.  I write better angry, and drunk.  I can always edit sober.  

Just got back from dodgeball, only four players from the team showed up.  Won anyway.  Nice.

Going to start writing seriously again, now.  If nothing else for sanity's sake.  

To start, I need to begin my Murtagh List, i.e. a list of "shit I'm too old for" -- things like Dawn Patrols.  I certainly don't see myself abiding by this list all that often... good to have as reference though.

Also, the book is getting going.  I have at the very least one year at the new job (or more specifically February 2010), and while I'm here (and since there is so little else to do in this town) I am finishing this effort.   

It'll be ten years soon since the Chapter 1 happened.   A decade feels like a good amount of time to have passed in order to accurately take stock of a situation enough to write about it.

This is to appease Jay Lackey....

This goes out to appease Jay Lackey, writer of The Slack Files, aka the bain of my blogging existence....

Anyway, I'm writing this blog from a new location... Battle Creek, MI.  That's right I've made the move and am no longer a resident of Chicago... I took the job as Brand Manger on Eggo which is owned by Kellogg's, which as you may know is headquartered in Battle Creek, MI.  Hence the move.

Right now I'm writing to you from a completely empty apartment (minus one Aerobed) in the Battle Creek Tower, where I plan to reside for the foreseeable future, although as of next Monday I hope it will no longer be empty.  

So, in the spirit of making Jay Lackey happy, and a resolution to use this move to write more often there it is, my first post in WAY too long.