Good morning, whoever-reads-this. It's now 10:22 on this perfect Summer day. It's a balmy 69 degrees here in the house, which feels just right. Easier to feel motivated.
In High School, my brother founded an organization called LUMP, which stood for Largely Unmotivated Persons. He even had cards made up, with a place to put your picture. This was a trick though. If you put your picture in there, that would show motivation and thereby disqualify you. I was hoping I still had my card, which I had in my wallet for the damnedest time, but it's flown the coop.
I don't know how many actual members he had but there were a few. My brother also wanted to have the group listed in the Yearbook, which would've been a picture of the Faculty Advisor and empty risers- since none of the LUMPs were motivated enough to show up.
My brother has had his share of harebrained ideas just like me. Same DNA, God help us..
Music stuff. I'm playing a job with Chahrm on July 31st at the Old Capitol, 5 to 7. Chahrm is John Crisp and Ada Lou and a few other folks. Getting together with them tomorrow evening to run some tunes.
August 31st, from noon to one, is a solo guitar gig. I'll be on the south side of the Square, hopefully out of the heat. That will be a long hour, playing by myself, but should still be fun. Hope to see a few folks at this one.
And there's a third, date TBA, at The Alamo. Either July 12 or August 16. With Dan Rivero and Co, whoever that may be.
At this point, I'm pretty settled in my retirement. I like having all this time to myself- though I did get lonesome in this past year, with the isolation forced on us by the Pandemic. And I'm increasingly averse to anything resembling work.
As long as it's still fun, I'll continue to make occasional trips out of the house to play music. But I feel like some of those folks from my working days who were called back out of retirement. They liked to say that they were one bad day away from retirement, or re-retirement as it were. Similarly, I am one bad gig away from that myself. Haven't played it yet, so we're still good...
Okay. We're at that point once again. Thanks as ever for stopping in and reading. I do appreciate it! Happy Tuesday to you. For now, I'm outa here. More later. PS Today's pic was taken on the road. Some of the indignities I had to endure, like our 50s medley..
Today's tune is a thing I wrote many moons ago called Charles Manson Eyes. There was a girl I was seeing who was reading Helter Skelter, and actually thought I looked a little bit like Manson. So another song title was born. It has a few technical problems here and there, but should still be an entertaining listen.