Nekkid, Clueless and Feelin' Good: March 11, 2001

Sunday,
March 11, 2001

Ohhhhhhhhh yeah. . .

What a lovely day. Of course, the fact that I spent half of it in bed probably has something to do with my total satisfaction. Well, hey, I've been working on short sleep rations and busy weekends for the last three weeks -- I needed a brainless day.

And today certainly fit the bill. Woke up at 9:00 am, considered going to the Blue Mesa on an information-gathering mission (let it never be said that I don't go the distance for my friends), decided screw it (let it also never be said that I'll pass up a chance to sleep when it comes my way and wants to be friendly) and snoozed until 1:00 pm. After that, the afternoon was spent puttering about the place, practicing with Dave (my fingers are starting to go in that weird position a little more easily now -- at least it doesn't feel like I'm on the verge of disjointing my hand anymore), doing a bit of organizing in the offices and shifting boxes back and forth, interspersed with long lovely periods on the couch with my legs up and a good book in my lap.

Now that's the way to spend a Sunday. However, since I did feel a bit guilty about spending the entire afternoon inside, I put my shoes on and went for a nice healthy walk around Stonebriar Mall.

Um. Okay, so it wasn't all that healthy. It was fun, though, and I came home with the first three studio albums from the Dave Matthews Band (did I mention that I bought tickets for the Dallas concert in July? Of course, there's the little problem that I did this through the Ticketmaster website, which doesn't offer separate billing and shipping addresses. Since, no duh, my Swedish billing address doesn't match my American shipping address, I'll probably have to call Ticketmaster and get everything sorted before they'll actually approve the ticket purchase), which just leaves another four before I complete my collection.

Is this how Deadheads get started? Yes, fine, I'm I know I'm obsessed -- but this is good shit, man! Screw Blur -- they should've played DMB as the first Earth music on Mars. Hell, I hope some right-thinking tech at SETI is beaming "Everyday" towards Vega as we speak.

All right, I'll shut up now.

Oh, and I bought the video short "George Lucas in Love" and a Classic Trek Scotty doll for Lyndon's office (a little something that he can stand next to the computer-graphically enhanced picture of Simon and him in Star Trek uniforms behind Kirk, Spock and Bones. This actually is a fabulous picture -- they really look like they're there, although Lyndon moaned, "Oh, my God -- I look like Scotty!" when he first saw it).

Of course, now that I found out Mattel is bringing out a line of Greek Mythology Barbies and has Faerie Queen and Spirit of the Air Barbie, Scotty won't be alone for very long. Yes, I'm a big kid -- and your point is?

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