I wish I could come up with a better way to get my thoughts up here, it’s so much of a chore.  It needs to be more like a little notepad where I can jot a bunch of things down real quick instead of creating these humongous catching-up posts where I’m trying to summarize a whole week or two.  Bitch bitch bitch!!

Speaking of notepads, have you heard about the latest craze?  The low-tech hipster PDA, just a bunch of index cards held together with a binder clip.  I love that, it really appeals to my love of list-making and my fetish for office supplies.  It also leaves me lusting over fancier things like a Levenger pocket briefcase and a little Moleskine notebook for writing down my song-snippets.  I love using my Treo for contact management — I have so many of those it really is a space-saver, but for note-taking, the Treo doesn’t really work too well for me.  I like to have notes and to-do lists right in front of my face, not hidden away in a program on my phone that I might never open for weeks!

Speaking of list-making, Eric showed me his to-do list.  That guy is amazing, he actually has things to do and he does them!  Heheh.  Oh yeah, I might as well take this opportunity to mention that Eric’s new CD just went onsale at CDBaby, check it out!  He’s doing a release party on the 28th, an early show at the Hideout, if you want to hear this stuff in person.

Just registered for an account at AudioScrobbler; I was reminded of it by John Cunningham at that last Beat Kitchen show.  Right now my iBook’s back in the shop getting a blown speaker repaired but luckily there’s a plugin for Windows iTunes as well. You are using iTunes aren’t you?  If not, why not?  Sorry to be so bossy but seriously, there’s no good reason not to.  It’s kinda like the Moleskine notebook of audio software; just beautiful and elegant and simple and pleasing to the touch.  Anyway, AudioScrobbler.  It’s transparent enough that maybe I might actually get some use out of it, since I don’t have to do any actual work to get the list populated.  So far today I’ve just been listening to various MP3s I downloaded off the web, at Mangos and Mandolins, Songs Illinois and other mp3-blogs and suchlike.  There’s so much free music out there I hardly ever bother listening to actual CDs anymore.  I used to think it was just a phase but I’ve been doing this for years now.  Hmmm.

I bought myself a new Uno deck the other night, so after a nice dinner at Cafe Sushi, we had a little tournament betwixt me and Eric and Geoff and Sarah G.  It was loads of fun, I hope we can do it again real soon.  It seemed like Geoff was going to win but then Sarah turned the tables and beat us all in the end.  We didn’t get all the way to 500 points but it was a long enough session to satisfy.

I’ve been working out at my new gym just about every single day.  No results on the scale yet, but I am working my butt off, hopefully literally.  I did my orientation thing the other day and got weighed and measured; they told me I should probably just put away my bathroom scale for the next six weeks or so, ‘cuz I won’t see any results until then.  I think I’m just checking to make sure I don’t gain any more weight.  I quit smoking last August as you may know, and man… I’m very glad I did it but jeez, I wish it hadn’t changed my metabolism and made me gain twenty pounds the way it did.  But at least it’s forcing me to get in better shape.  It’s been a slow journey towards self-improvement — the long walks I started taking at the beginning of last year; the renewed interest in roller skating; the joining of the gym.  I hope this isn’t just a phase, it would be great if I could keep this up the rest of my life.  I don’t think it’s too unrealistic considering I’ve been keeping it up for almost an entire year now.  But we’ll see.

The one downside of all this has been my poor foot… I’ve been having pain in my left heel for awhile now, for months.  At least since this past summer, because I remember mentioning it to Erick Blake the day we went to see the Huckabees movie at the Davis.  I’ve done a bit of Googling and I think what I have is plantar fasciitis.  Which is very common and isn’t all that serious; what I need to do is pretty much what I figured: stay the fuck off it when it hurts.  Stretch it out.  And wear better shoes, dumbass!!  Heheh.  We’ll see, I’ll keep an eye on it and try to be gentle on it and hope it improves.  If not, I’ll just have to get it amputated.  Just kidding!!

Speaking of feet, I was walking on Rush St. yesterday, on my way to the Apple Store, and saw Jerry Springer pass me.  On foot.  He was literally one foot away from me.  I thought it was my imagination but a guy walking next to me commented on it and looked at me to be sure he wasn’t imagining things.  Weird huh?

Okay, back to my life in the big city…