The Great Unknown

       FRIDAY 1/17/2020 5:25PM-I’m a few miles away from tonight‘s gig at Leisure  World…And I’m an hour early; I had dinner at Wendy’s and I’m about to have dessert… I hope I can find the gig in the dark... If ever there was a gig where I should take a Xanax before I play, this is it-And I forgot to take one…and I THINK I forgot my tablet...
SATURDAY 1/18/2020 9:36 AM--Seemingly one of my diary entries went away--I dunno why...Anyway, last night Dave told me that he saw one of my posts on Flakebook about bands that I'm in that think they're good when *I* don't think they are...he guessed that I meant the Combustibles, and I did...but I didn't have the heart to tell him I also meant the ACME Band Co. too...By my former standards, we weren't very good last night...that especially includes me as a keyboard player...according to my new criteria, we did good...the audience liked us, possibly a LOT...there was a female musician there, she said I (we?) was really good, on guitar anyway...I assume she wasn't lying or pulling my leg...my tablet was in Gburg, which did me no good at all when I sang TAKE IT EASY...I came home with $61 dollars, including tips...and I still have $80 from house sitting...
    It seemed to take a lot less time to get back to Rockville after the gig...the load-in and load-out were both a major pain for me...but today, so far, I'm OK...and if there's a next time, I'll know where to go...basically, I'll look for the dumpsters...
I DO wish Geoff listened to guitarists other than Garcia...quite frustrating to me...
10:30 PM-apparently the concept for the fourth Thursday open mic (which will actually be held on the fifth Thursday-I don’t know why) is songs with color in the title... I’m going to do pink Cadillac… Stoney suggested Green-eyed Lady by Sugarloaf but Barnaby feels like that’s too much work for him to do...Arlene has at least four songs she wants to do… The more time passes, the less I like her…Generally, most guests pick a couple of songs–not her…She is after all a star, a member of the Newports...blecch...oh well...
SUNDAY 1/19/2020 11:30AM-soon I will be having lunch… After that I will load up the car and go to Rick’s house for Combustibles practice...I  should be home by 5 PM if not sooner…
6:15PM-I was home by 3:30… I took a teeny bit of a nap;