Author: robertjames1971

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The Evening Commute Blues

I still have an hour and 20 minutes to go before I can head home from the office. Unfortunately I saw a news report that states one of the highways I sometimes take home is closed in both directions.

Shit.

Tanker truck carrying ‘several thousand gallons of fuel’ overturns on Route 3 north of Boston

That means that everyone heading in my direction is going to have one major highway option taken away from them, which means that we’re all going to take the same route, which means that the already brutal evening traffic is going to be 100% worse than normal.

Oh goody gumdrops. I could go North for 40 miles or so, but maybe today would be faster to go South and circumnavigate the globe. Just call me Ferdinand Friggin’ Magellan.

If You Always Skip it, Why is it In Your Routine?

What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?

Daily writing prompt

Dumb question alert.

If you always try to skip one step in your regular routine, why is it part of your routine? If you always try to skip it, why not just delete it from your to-do list and have done with it? Are you a child who doesn’t get to set their own routine? If that’s the case then the question might make some sense, but if you’re an adult? If you are an adult and there is something in your routine that you actually try to skip, just don’t keep it in your routine. Simple.

Did A.I. come up with this question?

There are a lot of things I’d like to skip. I’d like to not have to exercise every day. I’d like to just roll out of bed and be lazy. I can’t though because if I do my recently redesigned innards will fall apart and I’ll destroy what healthiness I have right now. Same with my daily vitamins and tracking my food and drink and all that fun stuff. If I skip one of those daily routine steps then I get sick and I really don’t wan to get sick. That’s literally why these things are part of the routine, dig? Otherwise they wouldn’t be in the routine. That’s why I don’t try to skip any of those things.

I mean.. duh, right? I’m not taking crazy pills or anything, am I?

Grocery Fail and the Clock at Night

I went grocery shopping for some turkey day supplies today. The jar of mini onions leaked all over the place, the bowl of diced watermelon leaked all over the place, and one of the packages of pudding wasn’t sugar free. Motherpussbucket.

At least I got two bad night time pictures of the down town clock. One coming and one going.

I was left pretty annoyed by the whole trip. Stupid leaky groceries.

My Guitar is Home!

I went to the guitar shop at lunch. I made excellent time despite a road closure somewhere in Andover, MA.

I played my newly refretted guitar with its new bridge and its new nut and my first impression is that it still feels pretty good. The frets are a lot higher than I’m used to on this guitar, but not too different than a couple of other guitars. The action is a little higher than it used to be, I think, but it’s still super low the way I like it. It felt good. First impression, again, is that I am really happy.

I took my guitar home!

What do you think, beautiful, eh?

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Dig that new bridge!
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Dig that new nut!
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Dig those new frets!
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Dig those new frets again!

He did mention that a couple of the inlays on the neck popped out while he was removing the old frets. That happens. He fixed them. That’s good. I didn’t see anything and I couldn’t feel any difference during my quick inspection. All in all… happy. Can’t wait to get the band back together so I can play this babie at practice and wind up the volume and let it loose. Anyone know anyone who lives near Haverhill, MA who can sing and wants to join a dad-rock cover band?

Famous People

Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met?

Daily writing prompt

This one is tough. I think I have really wracked my brains over it for maybe five whole minutes. I don’t think I have ever really met anyone famous. I’ve never met anyone infamous either.

I went to an in-store show at Newbury Comics in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA on the day Throwing Muses released their Limbo album back in 1996. I got autographs from all three members. Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo, and Bernard Georges. Are they famous enough? I mean, they absolutely are to me but does the rest of society consider them famous?

When I was really little my father took me to an autograph signing with two members of the Boston Bruins. This is back in the mid-70’s. I seem to remember it being at a car show in the parking lot of the Osco Drug store in Tewksbury, MA but that can’t be true, can it? The two Bruins were Stan Jonathan and The Chief Johnny Bucyk. They were both household names in New England at the time, and The Chief probably still is. He’s a total freakin’ legend in these parts. He’s probably the most famous person I’ve met, even if I don’t really remember it at all.

My Uncle worked for The Boston Celtics. I shit you not when I say that legendary Celtics head coach and general manager Red Auerbach was the best man at their wedding. Really. Had I been there, that probably would have been what I wrote about today. I think I was too young to go though so I didn’t meet him. I don’t think my Uncle counts as famous, but it is really freakin’ impressive when he shows off his two Celtics NBA Championship rings (1984 and 1986).

I guess when it comes to meeting famous or infamous people I have lived a pretty uneventful life.