Two hours until Valentine’s day. I hear what sounds like some female laughing her ass off in the room above me. I tried to switch through
the TV to find the show she was watching. Nada. The funniest thing on was some public access station with a guy reading typed pages. He
was changing from one page to the other and they got out of sequence, completely confusing him. Reminded me of my audition for Senior
Showoffs back in 1987. We had only read our script one time. All of us couldn’t understand it, but we read it through, confusion and all,
regardless. Turns out we were missing two pages and the first and last page had been reversed. Nice. If we’d been making a David Lynch
movie, maybe that would have been a good thing.


Got a phone call from my friend Chris yesterday to hang out and possibly go venturing into town. Haven’t been back in the city since last month.
Okay, not true. I went to a pot luck last week. Sue me. I’m not in charge of memory.
Tom is in charge of memory. (Don’t Ask). On the way there I was listening to The Point, an 80’s rock station. They had a trivia contest
going on and the prize was an expense paid all-day ski trip. I won. Totally cake question. ”What year was Phil Collin’s No Jacket Required
voted album of the year?” Duh! 1985. I mentally LIVE in 1985. They wanted caller number 9. I first got through as caller number 5.
Click! I called back and it rang again. The DJ answered and then I answered and then the DJ was all, “Dude you totally won” and I was
all, “Dude I am totally there” and he was all, “Dude, that’s great, what’s your favorite station?” and I was like, “Dude…. YOURS!” and then…
silence. I was then told to hang on and put on hold. After two minutes the DJ came back and recorded my personal info and gave me the
dibs on the trip. Free ride for two to Blue Mountain, two free lift tickets, two free rentals, free food for two. Not too shabby, except
figuring out what I’m going to do about the “two” part of the equation. I haven’t won anything since the
early 90’s. In 1991 I estimate I won something like 45 movie passes from radio stations. No wonder it took 8 years to get through
college.