Forgot the most important thing…

        SUNDAY 8/8/21 11:30AM--Arrived at the Riley’s lock Jam with my lunch, a guitar, the Brit bag full of stomp boxes-and NO chair-DAMMIT…
1:15PM-now I kind of know why my friend Jeff quit coming to this thing… it’s loud, and as guitarists are prone to do, there’s a lot of competition going on… Maybe it IS competition, but I don’t think Music SHOULD be competition…dunno how much longer I’m gonna stay…
4:40 PM-I guess I left about 15 minutes after writing that last section… I left the Jam and went to the grocery store and bought most of the groceries that I need to have in Rockville…
Ultimately I found the jam to be unsatisfying…I guess Jeff was right… maybe it was better when fewer people knew about it; but there was a time when *I* was one of those fewer people…
9:15PM-looking at the photos taken by somebody (Beth Riley?) at today’s Riley’s Lock Jam, it’s like I wasn’t even there… and that’s OK, I didn’t really feel like a part of it anyway…I dunno for sure if I’m ever gonna go again…
MONDAY 8/9/21 12:25PM--almost forgot that there's a Jim&Eileen practice today at 5:30...the gig is on Thursday...
1:08PM--and there's the Main Stage Grille open mic tomorrow night...I might NOT go...Dunno what Lou or SueEl are gonna do...
9:39PM-well, the Jimandeileen rehearsal is behind me… I’m not happy with the amp sound that I’m getting from Jim’s amp but maybe my EQ stomp box will make the difference… and I’ve been thinking I should use my guitar, which is an idea that Eileen came up with independently of what I was thinking…