I couldn’t get ahold of my Holler Sister today but I hope she had a good birthday.  Yeah I know what day it is… it’s a day of remembrance of the victims of 9/11.  But it’s also Deborito’s birthday, a much happier anniversary to be sure.  Daddy’s birthday was the other day (on the 9th) and I couldn’t get ahold of him either.  But then, he can’t stand holidays and probably didn’t want to be gotten ahold of, knowing him.  My little sister Lilly’s birthday was right before mine, on Aug. 11th, wasn’t that the day I quit smoking?  SHE was in Mexico when I called her but I spoke to her a few days later.  Then my little brother John’s was on Sept. 5th.  I DID get to speak to him, I guess that was the one successful birthday-call I’ve made lately.  :-)

I’m having a nice relaxing weekend… been practicing a lot the past few days, getting ready for the show on Friday. Rian came over today and I ran through my tunes again, while watching the Cubs game out of the corner of my eye.  We both wanted to be watching the game… HE used BOTH eyes and didn’t even bother pretending to pay too much attention to me.  And I wasn’t paying much attention to myself either, heheh.  I did pretty well though; there weren’t too many foulups and we both knew the material well enough that it didn’t matter anyhow; we could watch the game and do the music thing all at the same time.  We’re pros like that.  :-)

It’s amazing how much better I’m feeling mentally since the last time Rian saw me two weeks ago — boy, I’m lucky he actually came back, heheh.  Now it’s been exactly a month since I quit smoking; I’m eating normally and I feel totally sane again. :-) I’m not having cravings at all anymore.  Well, I did last week when I went to Schuba’s, but the entire room was smoking so it was a pretty hard test of my willpower.  And I admit it: I had THREE puffs which I bummed off other people.  Those people got very nervous when I did that, but I simply enjoyed my 3 puffs and it didn’t make me want to go buy a pack, and didn’t give me cravings the next day or nothin’.

I noticed something really weird about my blog the other day.  It seems a lot of my older entries are now 12 or 13 hours offset from the time they’re supposed to be.  I think it might have happened when I moved my blog from the Hong Kong server to the USA one; it just took me this long to realize it.  So I guess the entries are stored in GMT and maybe it thought I was in Hong Kong when I posted the older entries, who knows.  I sure don’t have time to go in and guesstimate the correct time for 2200 posts but if I spot any obvious ones I’ll do it.  I was doing it a little today and yesterday for all my ticket-stubs (in the Shows I’ve Seen category); that’s pretty obvious because those tickets mostly all have show-times listed on them and I sure as hell didn’t go see any shows at 7:30 and 8:00 in the morning!  But on regular entries it’s going to be a lot harder to tell whether something’s wacky or not.  God, I wonder if the comment-times are also screwed up?  Ugh.  Time sucks, just like money sucks.  And time is money.  They both suck donkey-balls.

I’m having fun with my new hard drive.  I guess I like my PC again because it’s no longer acting wonky the way it was when the old drive was failing.  I have such a love-hate relationship with Windows, it’s hilarious.