Getting My Head Together

Heat sick two days in a row! I didn't even know I was susceptible. I realize now that I must have experienced this in years past without associating it with heat exposure. All it took was a jaunt to the store in midday heat to make me ill. Well, the coffee and herbs might also have contributed.

What bothers me most about this malady is feeling like I want to be productive and not having the full use of my brain. It's like my brain is afraid it'll overheat if it does anything.

Now that night has fallen I should be OK, and blogging is an ideal way to get my mind working again.



Tourist season is flying by. Right now I have a work assignment, but if I didn't I'd be out there busking the docks with my guitar, or at least preparing my act. I hope I get a chance to do this. Here is my first take on a song list*:

Aubrey (Bread)
Hold Me Tight (The Beatles)
Stairway to Heaven (Zeplin)
You've Got Your Troubles (Jay and the Americans?)
Mamma Mia (Abba)
I Can't Get Started (Bunny Berrigan)
Roses... in Picotee (old standard)
Horse with No Name (America)
Baby Ima Want You (Bread)
I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family)
[some stuff by the Ramones that I'm not real familiar with yet]
Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson)
Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack)
[some stuff by Melanie that I know by heart]
Mystifyingly Glad/ ... Dyingly Sad (artist unknown)
Gimme Some Kind Of Sign (artist unknown)

... I never did finish that list. Obviously it needs massaging and a call to ASCAP.

Nor have I been out busking yet, mostly because I've been unnecessarily occupied. Working with a client who doesn't speak much English is an invitation to errors that waste time. Worse, this particular client either doesn't have a good understanding of opportunity cost or doesn't figure me for someone who has anything important to do besides the business we have together. It could be a misread on him, but for now I'm going with my intuition. Tentatively. It's not like you can discuss every little disgruntlement through a language barrier. Some things you gotta just vent and let go. Right? Anyway, my intuition is pretty well supported by things he has said that really don't bear repeating here.