Or snow…

Me and my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man are going out for sashimi & sake today.

Right now it is very cold but it is sunny. It’s supposed to stay sunny most of the day. The snow isn’t supposed to start until tomorrow, but you perhaps recall that this past Wednesday, it was also supposed to stay sunny, however, the minute I went outside to get into my car and drive to town to see my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man and take him out for Japanese food, a sudden snow storm blew up and fell right down on me from the sky.

But since a huge snow & ice storm is supposed to come this weekend, we are going out for sashimi & sake today no matter what! Yay!

And I also want to give out a great big THANK YOU to M. over in Austria!!

The other day, she encouraged me to go out and stock up on food and on cat supplies, so I did. I believe that this weird, practically nation-wide awful storm is somehow related to what she told me. I really do. (They are predicting not just snow and ice, but power outages, the internet going down, etc.)

And if I hadn’t already stocked up on everything the other day, because of what she told me, then I would be panicking now, since the local grocery stores are already running out of food. I’m hearing from friends that a lot of the shelves in the stores in town are empty.

So thank you again, M. in Austria!!

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Okay.

Yesterday, the AC guys did indeed show up. But they could only do the inside part of the installation. They have to wait until it gets a little bit warmer before they can install the outside stuff. But, wow, were they nice.

First off, they really liked my house. They were surprised by how large the rooms were for such an old house — and one of the guys actually owns a house built in 1833! So they really like old houses.

Oh and one of the guys used to live on my street a few years ago. (He’s in his 20s now.) He said, “I even came over and cut your grass one day.”

And I remembered that day! It was during that summer when I had a really unreliable lawncare guy and my grass was out of control. And I also remember that, when it was time to pay him for cutting my lawn and he was knocking at my kitchen door, I had just gotten out of the downstairs shower. Yes! I was dripping wet and wearing a towel when I hurried to the screen door to pay him.

ME: “I’m so sorry! Here’s your money! Thank you so much!!”

HE (staring at me for a moment with his mouth hanging open): “Okay. Well. Thank you.”

Neither one of us mentioned that part yesterday.

HOWEVER!!

They both also said yesterday that they couldn’t believe I had as many cats as I said I had. (All the cats except for Lulabelle were closed up in the upstairs bedrooms the entire time the AC guys were here.)

They said that the house was so clean and so organized, that it didn’t seem possible that I had 15 cats in here.

You know what a lunatic I am about trying to keep this house clean and to take care of all these cats. So that just made me feel incredible. No one had actually ever said that to me before. I really appreciated it.

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And while the AC guys were here, I was working at my kitchen table and I got really good work done on the synopsis for the TV project I’m working on with Sandra.

I still have a few more paragraphs to pull together, but I was really happy with how it started to come together yesterday.

And, OH!

Before I forget.

I still have to say thank you again to all of you who are buying the eBook edition of my novel from 2020, The Guitar Hero Goes Home.

I honestly cannot tell you enough how happy that makes me. That book means so much to me. So thanks again, everybody.

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All right.

Here’s this.

Another great one of David Johansen from Phyllis Stein. This one taken at the infamous NYC nightclub, Max’s Kansas City, back in the 1970s:

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And just FYI — here’s a photo of Max’s taken in 1976, by legendary rock photographer, Bob Gruen:

He has lots of photos of Max’s from back then, inside and outside, HERE.

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And here’s this!

A great photo of the late Link Wray!

And here’s this, while we’re at it. A great song by Link Wray, “Deuces Wild,” 1964 (I play this in the car a lot) (which is probably why I often look at my speedometer and discover I’m going 95 mph):

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And as I type, I’m guessing the Wild God show in Sydney is well under way! If not almost over??

You can buy tickets for tomorrow night’s show HERE.

And here’s another photo from the show in Adelaide the other night:

And here’s this, because I fucking LOVE IT!!

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And on that note, I need to sort of relax a little bit before I head to town.

I have a rough weekend ahead. I’m doing a double-shift tomorrow — they need me to cover a shift with the retired Minister and his lovely wife and cat. And then of course, I see them again on Sunday afternoon/evening.

But I have already been told by the Agency that if the snow is as bad as they’re saying it’s going to be by Sunday, I can cancel that shift.

We’ll see, gang. I am already stressing about doing 200 miles of driving in the snow and ice this weekend, and it hasn’t even started yet.

Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world, regardless of the weather!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!

This CD continues to be my breakfast-listening music! And the lineup of musicians and singers on this classic track are spectacular.

Including but not limited to!!

“Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Levon Helm, John Prine, Bruce Hornsby, John Hiatt, and Rosanne Cash. It also features legends like Earl Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Jimmy Martin, and Vassar Clements. “

“Will the Circle Be Unbroken”, 1989, from the tribute album of the same name, by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Enjoy, gang!!