Yesterday I woke up super early and met Tommy Johnagin at his place so that we could drive to Appleton, WI. Along the way, we picked up Mike Palascak in Chicago. Somewhere along the trip, we played the Alphabet game (that kids game where you find words on billboards that start with specific letters of the alphabet. Tommy and I were near the end, and Mike came from WAY behind to win. He passed us, and while on 'Z', Tommy tried to distract him, but did such a horrible job Mike realized what was up and saw the winning Z-word. We ran into a bunch of traffic thanks to the EAA fly-in at Osk Kosh and showed up to the club to get the condo key at 7:30 (the show was at 8:00). We hit the condo and got back to the club with ten minutes to spare.
The show went really well, I did around 12 minutes to open and my friend Steve Hartman (whom I worked with in Milwaukee a while back) did a guest set. Mike and Tommy had good sets, and somewhere in there during the announcements a waitress dropped a bottle (or glass) and it hit the floor. The audience clapped and cheered, so I said "Like you've never screwed up at work before". At the time I was really proud that I came up with that line so quickly, but looking back it may be kind-of stock. At the end of the show, since I left my phone at the condo (bad move) I didn't know when Tommy was getting off stage, so I was late and had to sprint to the stage. I was out of breath and had trouble with the announcements. The last time that happened to me was YEARS ago at Fairview Heights and Joey (the manager at the time) yelled at me a lot. Neither Casey nor Cliff mentioned it, so I'm hoping they didn't notice / think it was a big deal. Tonight I will try to remember my iPhone and hopefully will be able to avoid any similar problems.
After the show, we went shopping, and it took forever to find the supermarket. The one we found was so poorly laid out, that it took us literally 90 to 120 minutes to get everything. Near the beginning, I threw a box of tampons in the cart and eventually forgot about it. While we were checking out, I went to the bathroom and when I came back, Tommy and Mike were wondering how the Tampons (which had already been rung up) got into our cart. So the cashier had to call for help a couple times before she figured out how to refund Tommy and Mike's money. Meanwhile a huge line (at about 1:30 AM?) grew and there were a lot of people waiting in line. Tommy tried to lecture me about how that should teach me a lesson or something, but I kept on laughing...
Today, I woke up around 10:30 or so and did a bunch of video editing. I just got Final Cut Express and am learning how to use it, around 4 we went to a park to play a little football. About thirty minutes in, I tried to catch the ball and ended up dislocating my left pinky. It looked sick. I thought I broke it, but it didn't hurt as bad as I thought a broken finger would. Either way, we grabbed our stuff and started walking to the car (so we could at least go to the hospital) when some homeless guy asked us for bus fare. We told him we were going to the hospital and so he asked again, so I showed him my finger and somewhat exasperatedly told him we were busy. Before we got back to the car, I wrapped my finger in my shirt and popped it back into place. So then we played some more football, only I was all-time QB and no one would throw the ball back to me, they'd just had it over. It was still fun and we didn't get accosted by any more bums who apparently had more places to be than we did.