The Pie Wagon
Yeah, it’s been about a month…I took a little vacation from the site for a while, to recharge the batteries of my little double A Mag-lite of a web site. I had hoped to keep going strong until at least April, where this year I will have made it to my 5 year anniversary, but a strange thing happened at the start of the New Year: I ran out of things to write. Note, I didn’t say things to write about, because of course, there have been plenty of things to write about, but it feels more like I ran out of words. Or perhaps like I still have words but can no longer string them together in any meaningful way. Whatever it is, it absolutely required me to get away from the keyboard for a bit, at least in the “I should be writing” sort of way.
I’ve also not been going to the Truck Stop lately as I’m back on the wagon, at least in the way of food, and the last thing I need these days is to be starting at Vern bringing another piece of pie to another customer. They have good pie there, and it would only be a mater of time before I’d break down and have a piece. If there’s one thing I know it’s that pie is a slippery slope, a “Gateway Desert” if you will, that leads to harder stuff like Ice Cream, Doughnuts, Coconut Cake and Venti Mocha’s with whip. No, best to just avoid the place for a while, and find another place to hang out.
I don’t know how the winters are where you all live, but if you live anywhere near Tacoma, your winter has been filled with rain and a lot of dark gray clouds. For a while there most everyone in the county was following our record breaking attempt to accumulate the most consecutive days of rain in the history of Washington State. We came close, but even that small modicum of satisfaction was yanked away from us at the last minute, as if to say there will be no satisfaction in your wet winter suffering. And so we trudged off to work in the dark cold rain, and came home from work in the dark cold rain, and in between work there were days of rain called weekends, and these weekends were gray and kind of dark-ish and there was nothing at all in the sky that looked like a big ball of light.
But today the sun is shining and I’m watching the light dance off the waters of Commencement Bay eating lunch and catching alongside my Sea Lion friends, what little heat I can, on this cold, cold day. I will take cold sun over mild rain any day.
Before I forget, I want to mention that I’ll be playing my first show of the year, this Monday night, February 20, at Jazzbones here in Tacoma. I go on at 7:45 and play for about half and hour. I hope some of you will break out of your winter doldrums as I have and come out to the show. At best, you’ll get to hear some of the new songs I’ve been writing, and at worst, you’ll get to enjoy the beverage of your choice amongst some other bleary eyed, wrinkled up winter survivors, once known simply as, Your Friends”.
I’ve also not been going to the Truck Stop lately as I’m back on the wagon, at least in the way of food, and the last thing I need these days is to be starting at Vern bringing another piece of pie to another customer. They have good pie there, and it would only be a mater of time before I’d break down and have a piece. If there’s one thing I know it’s that pie is a slippery slope, a “Gateway Desert” if you will, that leads to harder stuff like Ice Cream, Doughnuts, Coconut Cake and Venti Mocha’s with whip. No, best to just avoid the place for a while, and find another place to hang out.
I don’t know how the winters are where you all live, but if you live anywhere near Tacoma, your winter has been filled with rain and a lot of dark gray clouds. For a while there most everyone in the county was following our record breaking attempt to accumulate the most consecutive days of rain in the history of Washington State. We came close, but even that small modicum of satisfaction was yanked away from us at the last minute, as if to say there will be no satisfaction in your wet winter suffering. And so we trudged off to work in the dark cold rain, and came home from work in the dark cold rain, and in between work there were days of rain called weekends, and these weekends were gray and kind of dark-ish and there was nothing at all in the sky that looked like a big ball of light.
But today the sun is shining and I’m watching the light dance off the waters of Commencement Bay eating lunch and catching alongside my Sea Lion friends, what little heat I can, on this cold, cold day. I will take cold sun over mild rain any day.
Before I forget, I want to mention that I’ll be playing my first show of the year, this Monday night, February 20, at Jazzbones here in Tacoma. I go on at 7:45 and play for about half and hour. I hope some of you will break out of your winter doldrums as I have and come out to the show. At best, you’ll get to hear some of the new songs I’ve been writing, and at worst, you’ll get to enjoy the beverage of your choice amongst some other bleary eyed, wrinkled up winter survivors, once known simply as, Your Friends”.
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