I am sitting in an all-night Laundromat, one attached to a truck stop just south of Minneapolis.
I am washing the kitty pee out of my bedding... it has been a long day, part of a series, in what has proven to be a really trying few weeks.
I�m tired, and smell of old clothes from my community service... I am swamped with work (some of which I am completing now) I am lonely, broke, concerned... and freaked out about sharks too!
Let me start with London (aka Satan-kitty) I have some how become resigned to the fact that completely randomly, without explanation or reason she is going to periodically pee on my bed. I have rubber mattress-pads on the bed (very sexy when you�re bring a girl home for the first time... "What, that crinkling noise? Oh it�s the water proof sheets... Hey wait, where are you going?") - and I am used to it. But for some reason London has become MUCH worse in the last few weeks. Her normal period is about once, or twice a �show� (standard six-to-eight week period) but she peed like three times in the last few weeks of the Ohio show. Apparently she decided that wasn�t enough however. Both last Saturday and Sunday while I was at work she crapped on my bed. Maybe she didn�t like being left alone? Who knows... she tried to do it again on Tuesday... when I saw her scratching I yelled at her... she slunk away, then snuck back and pooped on my floor at the foot of the bed... then while I was at work Sunday of the second week, she pooped exactly in the center of the living room rug... the bed wasn�t wet then, but she got that a few hours later.
I ask you, honestly... how much more am I supposed to take? If I were in Florida, I would have given her away this morning. A girl I used to date really covets her, and I am at wits end. She is not sick (physically anyway) she is not avoiding her litter box (she messes it and I clean it regularly) there hasn�t been any great disruption in the pattern of our lives... nor any girls in bed in a while to threaten her.
Fuck!
Wish I didn�t love her. Really, what�s a boy to do?
It is so late because I have just seen a movie -�Open Water�CREEPY! I became a diver largely because there is NOTHING on this planet I fear as much as sharks. If you have not seen this movie - SEE IT. It is disturbing in a whole different way then Jaws was... and, believe it or not it actually meets and exceeds the hype!
FUCK!
Before the movie I did my first shift of community service... how absurd, Me doing community service. Well I guess I am a bad-guy now (the not group �W� bench bad - yet!) I am doing my time at the Goodwill... mostly racking and tidying clothes. There is something so horrible about big institutions, Military, Courts-and-jails, and poverty programs... I am oddly fortunate to have experienced all of them - but I sure don�t like it! I have a total of 40 hours to do... I will just squeeze it in to my ample free time (that was sarcasm... in case you didn�t know)
I woke really early today (kitty-pee will do that to you) and went straight to work. Besides all of the NORMAL twin stuff I�m doing right now (more on that later) I have also taken on a web creation job for a friend... well, the girl who built this company�s original site was/is much more technical than me... by the time this new site is done I will have so much more knowledge... but I sure was swearing a lot as I was trying to figure out how the hell the damn site worked.
Let me tell you what is on my plate right now:
We have�TortugaPalooza�coming up in less than a month... of the 1200 possible seats we can sell on the two nights... we have sold 100. I always worry about any new endeavor... it has become axiomatic. But I am really sweating bullets. That is a whole shitload of seats we need to sell in not so much time... Also the details are (mostly) worked-out for the theater for the Charlotte show. Now I have a whole lot of web site work to do to promote and describe the show here, promote, describe, and sell tickets to the show in Charlotte... But we have to make some script changes to the show (from what we were doing in Florida) as well as change some of the videos, and the order of those videos, we have to create and get signed contracts for�Hack & Slash�and�Panty raid!�This job is further complicated by the fact that I had Jef book the girls out of Memphis to Minneapolis... that would be fine, except they live in NASHVILLE!
Jef is handling most of the Advertising... though we STILL have to sell ads in our playbill...I have been very busy overseeing the editing of the �Palooza video... now Jef gets to master it... somehow we will figure out how to pay for it.
The biz is broke for the first time in a long time... Our third DVD is out, but not paid for... and another one will be out soon (those are Big Bad Wolf, now, and �Palooza, soon...Oh and a "making-of-Palooza" too, and we�re not certain how to pay for them all... we are still sitting on expenses for the first set of Palooza shoots, and the production itself. We need to get more t-shirts... though we have quite a few and they ARE selling... and we have to pay for the theater and promotions for these shows coming-up!
Yikes!
I am also personally broke... Two thousand dollars of repairs, actually more if you factor in some other stuff I had to get done just before leaving Ohio...and for the first time in a long time, I am not only tapped... but carrying debt
FUCK!
What else? At least we finished the scripts for the �Palooza 2 video shoots... and simplified them. The whole show�should�be funny as hell and a lot easier to do... maybe cheaper - but though the videos are done we have some re-write of that to do.
Have I mentioned that I also have to do standard updates for the all-access site...Journal entry (hi there!) and set-up sales for Charlotte tickets?
Somewhere I also need to find the time to create a product-tracking spreadsheet so we can all have records of what we sell year-by-year... and (BTW) I have taken it upon myself to write us a new show for the Pirate fest.
I haven�t gotten laid in awhile neither!
NO FUCK!
Tonight when I am done here, it is off to Kinko�s to download my mail, and prolly send this on if it is finished-enough to Andy the webmaster... then home, beat the cat, make the bed, MAYBE read a little... then off to bed. I sure could use a drink right now... but I won�t have one.
Tomorrow, I will get-up early, go straight to the computer to work on website stuff, and be at the Goodwill by 11 or noon... work till nine, then I THINK I have a date. Pretty girl, fake boobs... she prolly won�t �get-any�. After the date two hours of Gym-time.
I just got a new MP3 player, and haven�t even had time to load any songs into it...
Wednesday, after going to bed late I have to get up, do more work on web site and (hopefully) Pirate sketch... maybe some housework. The boys are coming over and noon to four is work on Palooza one. MAYBE after a few hours at the Gym I MIGHT get to take this Asian stripper out... (I met her at the Minnesota Faire this weekend - imagine that!) But I don�t count on it. I am already too busy to have called her.
Thursday AM I am sure I will have to wash the sheets again... another noon-to-four biz-with-the-boys meeting... Gym again, then home shower and off to�Bondage-a-go-go�- this is a fetish-themed night club where I (and we... but largely I) have many fans... The club used to be great, especially when April and I used to haunt and hunt there... but it is less so recently. I think, since I have a long drive home... and for a few other reasons as well... I shall stay completely sober at the bar - wonder how THAT will be...
Friday, Hair appointment, Goodwill, Gym... then website and TV as I am lulled-off to sleep.
Nuff bitchin' about my schedule?
Nope, not yet:
Also in here somewhere over the next couple of weeks, we have to shoot all the videos for �Palooza 2, I really need to be going to the gym at least 4 days a week... I have been going to workout with Riki... and he HURT me... I am contemplating a trip to Michigan... though I am wondering if I should.... I am a little disillusioned with the girl right now... I have to wash my Trailer, get my truck detailed, get a drug test... (for probation).
Young and hot
Young and hot
Also young and hot
Also young and hot
Hell.
Okay, enough now.
A couple of fun things happened in Ohio... I went to the Rock-and-Roll Hall of fame. I found it so charming that I was the only one, with my long hair and combat boots, that�looked�like Rock-and-roll. I went with a very neat girl, pretty, busty, very interesting piercings, a mowhawk... and eighteen! (Not admirable, but legal!) I also was seen in the company of a hot-bodied little stripper there in Ohio...(not Asian) sometimes my life is Okay.
One thing about Ohio... with a few exceptions, the girls there are either: Of age, or beautiful... but rarely both.
I remember I asked (mostly in play) this little nineteen-year-old who was working at the fair if she wanted to fool around. "No" she said.
"Why not" I asked. "Because you are almost twice my age". "That�s okay honey, after the first time I will just go to sleep and you can play Nintendo, or whatever it is that you kids do.
I did have a wonderful time... though I drank WAY too much at the Funky Formal in Ohio...
Funky Formal in Ohio
Funky Formal in Ohio
How intriguing... It is now morning, three nights later.
I ended-up Monday staying up till past three am.
Tuesday I did 8 more hours at Goodwill, then watched another movie (Spiderman 2 for the second time) again up till 3am... Today we had a meeting ... so I am even more behind... At least we know what to expect to accomplish in the next few weeks. Jef really has a handle on getting us more advertising... Riki has been moving and shaking on the charities... Oh and BTW both of my nincompoop partners have gotten new vehicles. I am sure they are both gonna write all about it, but I am envious... I have made them PROMISE not to let me buy a new truck... I don�t really need one right now anyway.
Today after all the meeting (this one mostly about TortugaPalooza 1.5) then Tanning, gym, (I have to get ready for the show don�t you know) now I am typing away trying to get some work done.
Another interesting note: I have a substance abuse problem... PEANUT BUTTER!
Dinner (so far) tonight was some warmed-up frozen peas, and a couple of spoons of peanut butter. This stuff is LOADED with carbs, fat, calories, yikes...
And I can�t stop eating it.
The girl with the fake boobs cancelled our date... I had a nice long conversation with the Asian, and a date with her tomorrow.
I decided to stay in tonight, get work done... I even got a few songs loaded into my MP3 player.
I don�t have a lot of photos this time...
Here�s one of the Woman�s club theater in Minneapolis... it is a really pretty room... and we are gonna have fun working it - I just hope we fill it!
Riki Jef and I checked out the theater, and made arrangements for the After Party - of course we had to mark the Tortuga territory...
From the stage
From the stage Peeing at the theatre
Peeing at the theatre
Okay, I am gonna scoot now... mucho more work to do...
Finally; don�t know what the hell is the deal with Melissa... can�t worry about that now... but I am awfully tired of being alone. Also she reads all of these journals... so we should do more talking before I could tell you gentle readers what�s up.
Minnesota�is going really well, and we of course have oodles of irons in the fire.
Ciao for now
