Month: October 2002

Ben‘s new album was released today. I may just have to stop off and pick it up for instant gratification.

An unexpected opportunity presented by a woman might cause an alteration in your present career plans, dear Pisces. This is likely to change your life as well as your career, so be sure you explore every avenue and learn as much as you possibly can before committing yourself in any way. For one thing, relocation – or at least a lot of travel – may be necessary. Weigh all your options carefully and objectively. However, change is still strongly indicated.

I am now in possession of three new pairs of shoes and a haircut that makes me look dead sexy.

Announcing: Halloween party, our house, Friday, November 1. You are all invited.

Yesterday was an exercise in either poor communication or just coincidences. At work, coworker E. and I decided to get some lunch while waiting for some data to come in. We walked down the the cafeteria and found nothing appetizing, so we ventured further to the pizza shop in the building’s mall. I had a slice of chicken and broccoli pizza.

At this point, everything is just fine. But later on, our department is staying at the office late to work on a presentation, and our boss M. decides to order dinner for us (without taking suggestions first). He orders pizza. I had a slice of mushroom (do you know how they grow mushrooms?) and a slice of plain cheese pizza.

Beautiful. Wonderful. Yummy. I finally get out of there and catch the 10:00 train back home. I arrive, hop in the cab, only to receive a phone call from Denise saying she’s waiting at the station to pick me up.

That’s not really part of the story.

I arrive home, and M-D and Darren greet me with… you guessed it… pizza. So I had a slice of pepperoni stuffed crust pizza and called it quits. “Quits,” I said, “you are my last piece of pizza. Ever.”

Of course I lied about the “ever” part.

“If you wish for something it may happen, but not in the way you might expect. Every cloud has a silver lining, and every silver lining is a cloud. We’ve all been there. We’ve all said, ‘If I could just have that car, everything in my life would be great,’ and then you get the car and it’s in the shop half the time, and it doesn’t run right and the radio doesn’t work. We buy into an image, we buy into what we think we want and then when we get there, sometimes what we thought it was isn’t what it really is.”

-Bob Gale (writer of Back to the Future) talking about his new film Interstate 60.

So, what music do I like? What have I listened to lately? I can’t seem to think of any music I’ve really enjoyed in the past several months. Am I still a musician? I don’t even know.

I should have taken that job I was pretty much offered in May 1999. I had a great interview for an assistant band director position at a high school in south Jersey. He asked if I’d be available over the summer to start. Instead of saying YES, I mentioned something about a commitment I made to a drum and bugle corps to drive a van for a few months, which I would break IF I got the job. If I had just said YES… my life would have been so much different if I had been less stupid.

Well, you live, you learn, and here I am.