I am in my hotel room, playing a game called What’s That Smell. It smells like someone has been storing cabbages in here, and smoking cigarettes like crazy. Or maybe it’s the cabbages who smoke. I have no idea.

I also screeched the trailer up on a curb. Oops. I didnt pay any tolls because they only take cash, so the state of Florida is into me for $5 now. I have the receipts to prove it.

I’d better get some sleep. Most of this room is taken up with bed, and I hereby christen it JIMLAND. So, I am going to sleep in Jimland now.

Someone please buy this for me:
Ebay Auction

Well, Christmas is over. I spent another year driving all over hell’s half acre, and I’m not doing it again. I’m also spending New Years away from home for the second year running. I am not doing either one next year, mark my words.

That reminds me, I need to send an email on New Years Eve to the guy who hired me to play last year and never paid me my $400 for the gig. I went all the way to Greensboro NC to play a crappy gig and never got my money. I called the guy every day for a while, until he started having his drug dealer answer the phone. Now I just send him periodic emails. I should let it go, probably, but I am still mad that I wasn’t with my friends on NYE and I got stiffed on the cash.

Christmas was great, though! I got beaten by my sister at Monopoly over a few bottles of wine and the course of an evening. I got some great gifts, including a nose hair trimmer in the shape of a finger, and some great clothes, and of course, I got to hang around my family. I watched Bugs Bunny DVDs with my brother in law, and I finished my audiobook.

The audiobook was Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States”, read by Matt Damon. It’s a really interesting read. It’s a history of the United States as told from the point of view of the people who got the short end of the stick, like the Indians, pre-civil rights blacks, etc. I recommend it. I started it in paperback version, but I found it in audiobook form and was able to finish it much faster. I don’t get nearly enough time to read the old fashioned way.

I’m still listening to the Guster record “Ganging Up on the Sun”. What a great album! I have never been a fan of theirs, but this one is awesome.

I hope you’re doing well and that your Christmas was as nice as mine!