"she never came, she never even called"

SO I PUT IT IN MY POCKET AND I DROVE HOME TO ALABAMA.

There is an illustrious clatter of distorted noise around 7pm Saturday evening. A young man is alone on a screened porch angrily thrashing out notes, faster and faster...burying his pain in electronic noise, wearing a veil of feigned sobriety...sneering at the river in the distance. He thought he was alone. Then the door opened. And his mother asked "what are you doing?" He slapped his hand against the strings of the Epiphone Dot, bringing an abrupt end to the noise. All one could hear was the faint "pop" of the electric fence through the amplifier as it's sound passed through the pickups. He looked at her and said, "taking in the air." His mother said, "your finger is bleeding." He looked down and noticed his left index finger was in fact, bleeding from the tip.

And it came to pass that a good friend came through on a promise...

And in a jar of Taster's Choice, I tasted "Wild Spirit-Paddle Your Own Canoe."--perhaps the last bit of it left in the free world. Appropriately ingested while kayaking on Memorial Day.

It was a promise that was kept after two years. Maybe there is hope for the world.

So, I've had an entire month of almost nothing going on since graduation. I'll be moving to Arkansas next Friday and not a moment too soon. I've definitely had enough of this place for a while. In this month I've done a few things (almost nothing isn't really nothing it just is a few things with a lot of nothing in between). I think it's best summed up in sidenotes.


1. Installed pull up bar.
2. Built some benches.
3. Mowed the lawn a few times (THAT is a chore.)
4. Kayaked my brains out.
5. Ran a little bit.
6. Flew to San Antonio.
7. Spent a few evenings in Huntsville.
8. Watched a lot of movies.
9. Had lunch with the Hensleys.
10. Saw a baby chicken hatch.
11. Had plans fall through.
12. Had plans that worked.
13. Saw people in Wal-mart that I had not seen in seven years, and thought I would never see again.


This was really boring.