another new beginning

       MONDAY 12/31/18--about five and a half hours until bedtime...I hope I can stay awake; might have to eat some cereal to accomplish that...
      TUESDAY 1/1/19--There's an acoustic open mic on Wednesday--in Olney...hosted by Sandra Dean...it starts at 6:.30, so I would likely leave the house by 5:30...I dunno who else is going to go, but hopefully I'll find out before I leave here for Olney...I REALLY wanna practice whatever songs I'm gonna do...
6:43pm--the Plan is to do WISHES and have two or three other songs ready...songs that I know way more than just a little...waiting for the tablet...I'd like to have it by Friday, but it's not due until Monday 1/7/19...
WEDNESDAY 1/2/19 7:47AM--decided NOT to do WISHES tonight, IF I go...mostly because it's STILL not completely finished...therefore I don't know the song as well as I want to...because I keep changing it, dammit...
9PM- well my solo set at the Olney Winery OM is over… I’m gonna give myself an 8.0...it could’ve been better, but of course, it could’ve been a lot worse…my guitar didn't sound good to me at all...maybe I'll start using the EQ and Chorus more often, if not everytime...my best vocal moment was in CAN’T BUY ME LOVE with Michelle Murray and Jeff Karn...of course I wish  someone had recorded THAT...
10:57PM--just got home, ears ringing a LOT...should be in bed by Midnight...I found out that the set Oz is doing on Sunday at JVs is only 30 minutes long...we are far from being the only act...and the Powers That Be want to end the event at 3:00 period, no ifs ands or buts...gonna leave some stuff at home, apparently I need to make room for Oz's photographer friend...dunno if I'm gonna use the gizmo or not...leaning towards :"not"...I don't think it's worth the potential problems just to have a wah-wah pedal for 30 minutes...
THURSDAY 1/3/19 4:18PM--I guess I'm not gonna get the tablet today and even if I did, I don't think I'd go out anywhere to test out the camera/video capability...I THINK it's sitting in the Gaithersburg post office, wherever that is--Shady Grove Rd. I think...
6:03PM--now the tablet is at the "local" post office, maybe that's Diamond Farms...it has GOT to arrive sometime tomorrow, right?
FRIDAY 1/5/19 10PM--It feels like it has taken all day, but I finally have the lyrics to four songs on my tablet...the bad news is that I apparently have to have a wi-fi connection to see 'em...
SUNDAY 1/6/19 11:45 AM- well the Oz adventure has started…I’m parked near his residence , in what I believe is a free on Sundays parking lot… I am going to wait until about five minutes before noon and then I will make my way up the street to Charter House...
2:08PM- well the 30 minute session with Oz is history… I guess I did well enough; at least that’s what everybody says... I felt a little better once Tom Blood and then Mike Lessin (separately) jumped up on stage and played second guitar and shortly thereafter we were finished...