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| Let me see if I can connect to my GPS Daniel-Finder application and see where he's jamming... |
at the Bourbon Street spot. It was still daylight.
The condo owner across the street was sitting on his steps and greeted me.
I played for about 45 minutes and 8 bucks, then took a break and came back twice more, with another break in between.
At one point a pedi-cab (a little cart pulled by a guy on a bike; similar to the "harness racing" rigs) stopped in front of me. A guy and a lady were riding in it.
The guy got out and approached me, asking me to play something.
I played a couple choruses of "Like A Rolling Stone," by Bob Dylan, with a harp solo thrown in, during which, he threw a bill in my case. When I stopped, he said "That's all we get? For twenty bucks?!?"
They got more, while the cab peddler rested his legs. I played a request for the lady "For another twenty bucks," which turned into another 15 bucks, as she had nothing else smaller than a hundred (See; the wealthy have problems just like the rest of us).
Soon thereafter, the gentleman told the cab peddler "Come on, I want to hear some others," and off they went.
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| I think I would just put the tourist in the seat, and then give the horse a little crack of the whip; and let 'em go! |
All in all, it was a 50 dollar night, and on a Wednesday; which is deemed to be one of the slowest days of the week, in the estimation of many performers that I talked to.
It makes it that much harder to leave New Orleans, now that I have been making decent money; but not as hard as it would be to leave New Orleans flat broke and picking half smoked cigarette butts off the ground...
We are only waiting on Howards "high blood pressure" medication to be ready for him at the VA Hospital, either today or tomorrow. It is hoped that it will help his headaches.
OK Howard having high BP, that would explain his having headaches. He can also consider losing weight, quitting smoking, quit coffee, and follow a healthy diet ... Oh wait that'll never happen. It's probably a fairly common and easy to get med, and hopefully they give him enough to last a while.
ReplyDeleteHoward is a role model to me in the fact that he doesn't smoke, rarely drinks...but; I guess he negates all those positive practices by eating a fatty, salty, greasy, bleached floured, "processed" (whatever the hell that entails) cheese stomach bomb from McDonalds every morning, and a low water content meal of fried chicken every noon...I need to train Howard in the ways of the mysterious-neck-pain- that-is-impossible-to-diagnose-but-wont'-go-away, so that he can get something from the VA with a little more street value than HBP meds; afterall, he put his life on the line for all of us, sitting behind a desk at the pentagon, pushing paperwork and fighting the Viet Cong
ReplyDeleteI just hope you are able to get going and not circling NOLA indefinitely. I still think you would travel much more quickly and easily alone, but if you are determined to take Howard with you, well, there are plenty of VA's out here.
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