Excitement

You know, there’s something to be said about excitement. For me it’s kind of like going up that first climb on a monster roller coaster and your just cresting the top of that first drop….click, click, click, click and all of a sudden your rushing toward the ground 70 times faster than man/woman was originally designed to travel, and that taste in your mouth is actually your stomach which is a strange place for that to be hanging out, and even stranger yet that it is the least of your concerns at that particular junction in your life.

Anyhow for each of us excitement manifests itself in different ways. For some of you, you’d scoff at me for getting excited at a pisley little roller coaster ride, for you something like sliding the door open on the side of an aircraft and leaping into the wide blue atmosphere is what gets your blood to course speedily through your blood veins. For others it might be getting to see a family member they haven’t seen in a long time, but whatever the case, I kind of thrive on the energy rush that excitement provides.

So what brings this up you may ask? Well a couple of things. One is that our band is a day away from embarking on our summer tour. Ahhhh yes! I get to cram myself into a 34 foot vehicle with 5 or 6 other people and work my donkey off for extremely long days, driving down marginal black strips of asphalt, adhered to the earth with, well basically gravity, that literally can run forever. Oh yeah, it’s a blast. Always being shuffled around and told where to go and what to do, never knowing hardly which way is up or what city your in or where you are from day to day. Oh yes and then there’s the shower situation and laundry, housekeeping, maintenance and upkeep of your living situation and of course everyone is always in the best of spirits, and all I can think to myself is…..BRING IT ON BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of this for those couple hours a night of pure bliss. A sheer freedom of experience when I strap on my ( getchyer minds out of the gutter) guitar and join my comrades on stage and get to do what I love the most.( besides my mom) Play music for anyone who cares to listen.

Oh yeah I did say I had a couple of things. Well the second one is the I have a fresh Julian apple pie in my fridge and I’m about to run to the store to pick up some Vanilla bean ice cream-Yum
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