Oh man…I’m sitting here watching one of my favourite shows that I had set to tivo because I was at the studio today prepping for a shoot that I have on Saturday (That was a strange and long sentence, but I’m not changing it because it was very informative). Wow, this show is so funny. Speaking of tivo. I think a tiny comedian lives inside of mine. And thought it would be funny to erase EVERYTHING that I had on it. All of it was gone. This is a life lesson boys and girls. Everything we have could be gone in an instant, so know where you are headed. Anyway… it was totally frustrating because I had to go through and reset all the shows that I normally record. And of course I lost a bunch of ‘LOST’ episodes that I have yet to see. Also gone were the episodes of ‘Cities of the Underground’ (AWESOME SHOW!!!) and… ‘Deal or No Deal’… ‘The Office’… a couple nerdy ‘Discovery Health’ shows about the human body, brain, etc. And a bunch of ‘The Twilight Zone’s’ (Which I like to stare at late at night and say, “What the heck?”) So what else is new…Ah yes, I got a new pair of kicks today. It’s been a while and I needed another ‘daily’ type shoe to give my favourite pair of Nikes a well needed break. The army surplus store a half a mile up the road sells a few different colours of Chucks, so I went there. I decided to go with Chucks this time because a: it’s been a few years since I’ve had a pair b: nikes are not as cheap  c: c’mon they are freakin’ pink. They were limited in colour and the lady said that because gas prices are so steep they can’t afford the freight on various assorted colours like they used to. So they were only selling black, white, red, blue and pink. Which is fine because pink is what I wanted. I didn’t realize that a guy wearing pink was still a big deal. But I am in different surroundings now than I am used to out west. One girl working there thought it was ‘cute’ that I bought pink ones for myself. A dude at the counter checking out was looking at me weird. But he was buying ammo boxes, tents and wearing camo. Then the ladies at the counter got into a discussion about people they know who have heard about people who know people who knew a guy who wore pink shoes. Seriously. 

Also today I received a fun little package from a friend who sent me E.T. Which…(dramatic pause) I have never seen. For real, I have never watched E.T.  I have only had two E.T. encounters in my life, and neither were the film or actual aliens. Once when in 1st or 2nd grade a bully was picking on me (what’s new) and told me to put my hand on the ground he was going to do something funny. So I did. Then he proceeded with his funniness. Which was not funny… to me. He slammed a giant rock down on my finger and it split open like an overcooked hotdog, ketchup included. It was disgusting, of course I was taken to the hospital (what’s new) and they put a huge-oid plastic cast over my entire finger after they stitched it up. I walked around for weeks with that thing on my finger, my middle finger no less. Fortunately, my parents did a good job of making sure I didn’t know how to use it in the evil way (Or the ‘you are a bad driver’ way). And I was the finger of every joke, hooray, and everyone called me E.T. And kept telling me to phone home. And being from a sheltered “you can’t watch that” home, I had no idea why everyone had a message from my mom telling me to call home. The other E.T. moment came later in life when we went as a family to Universal Studios and went on the E.T. ride. I was moved out of the house by that time and making my own decisions so I concurred that I would not burn in hell for riding the E.T. ride at Universal. My dad joined my sister and I on the ride and we put our names in the computer at the beginning. When we got on our bikes that flew we went past E.T. and he said, “Basil… Friiiiieeeeeeend.” And let me tell you it was the creepiest darned thing we’d ever heard. And for months after that’s how my dad would answer the phone. He’s a funny guy, and not the smash my fingers kind of funny. So there you have it. I still have ten fingers, a funny dad, and now… a new (old) movie to watch. :) 

And now that I spent time photoshopping this picture I have no idea what this blog was about. So let this blog be about nothing. 

Overall today was a great day. Ran a bunch of errands, went to the Post Office sent off some birthday cards, congrats cards and the like. Which take me a while to send out because I like to draw all over them. It’s what I do. I draw all over things. I also got my Adobe Photoshop magazine in my mailbox today from London, England. I like London, a lot. The magazine teaches me to spell English words properly and also how to design using certain techniques. After spending some time at the editing studio I went to my favoUrite little Irish Pub in downtown Franklin for some eats. During, I toasted myself, “Here’s to a great month of May.” (Which is hard to do, but possible) I sat outside did some journaling and polished off a few more chapters in “The Shack” which so far is amazing. The weather was also amazing today. I’m really starting to love Tennessee more and more as the days pass and I get to experience real actual seasonal changes to the landscape. 

So I guess that’s it for now. I’ve got to get up early and prep for Saturday. I do promise to post the blog holding my opinions regarding the Christian music industry and the music Business in general either tomorrow or Sunday. Have a great night you late readers, and a beautiful morning you early risers. 

Godspeed,

cB