32 Bucks, Or So

$5.63

I rode Shermans bike to the store at 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning. I reached a top speed of 20.2 mph, according to his digital speedometer.

I hadn't slept yet, as I had gotten back from busking at about 3:20 a.m. and Sherman and I had sat up talking.

A pack of smokes and a Mike's Hard Lemonade set me back the amount above, and I returned to sleep and to wake up around 2 p.m. Saturday, with about 38 bucks and a desire to go to Guitar Center and buy strings and picks before I wound up whoring away all of it.

We went to that place, where Sherman bought a guitar chord encyclopedia (even though he had a living, breathing one right by his side) and he sprung for the picks, which we split, 2 for him, 10 for me. They were Jim Dunlop .88 nylon picks, and I would come to "swear by" them, after making....let me see;

$5.63 -cigs and hard lemonade

$1.60 -a beer on the way to the store

$6.80 -Martin Marquis acoustic strings

$1.60 -a beer on the way from the store

$1.60 -a beer on the way to the gig

$1.60 -a beer during the midnight break

$5.63 - whiskey and cigarettes this morning

$23.86 -Total expenditures over the past two days

$49.72  -how much I have on me now

$73.58 -how much I made over the two days (minus the 17 cents that I started my tip jar with)

So, I guess I made 32 bucks last night, plus a couple cigarettes with the Jim Dunlop picks and by playing Brown Eyed Women, by the Grateful Dead as my "doesn't he know any other songs?" song for the night. I'm learning it and I believe in on the job training.

Adaptor For Samsung Laptop

I guess I will spend the 6 bucks on an adaptor for the Samsung laptop which Sue gave me in New Orleans, thinking (she) that it probably didn't work. 

I don't know where she got it, but it boots up with a Spanish version of Windows, and she is Colombian and there might be a tie-in there, somewhere.

Latest Sue Theory

I think she is the wife of a drug lord who is in prison for life and is now in hiding from either imagined or real enemies that he may have made.

She is too pretty (and has perfect teeth) to have been homeless her whole life, and she acts like someone who is used to having doors held open for her and being respected -always quick to take offense when someone treats her as anything less than a lady; something that happens all too frequently, as people are quick to judge someone who carries several bags on her shoulder and a couple of live animals....

So, the "problem" I am facing is this: For 6 bucks I can have a fully functional laptop which sold less than a year ago for about 800 bucks and which Sue just gave to me because it was getting heavy for her to tote around.

I am reminded of the time my car was impounded in 2005, and my 1930-s Buffalo nickel in MS-65 condition (which is listed in the coin-value magazines at 800 dollars) came up missing from my car and I was given 5 cents by the police to replace it -after all I was complaining about a nickel being taken from me; so I guess they placated me and we are now even and I should hold no grudge against officer Wasson -badge # 3033- of the St. John's County Sheriffs Office, St. Johns County, Florida.

And now an $800 laptop falls into my hands, through the agency of Sue ...

Is it karma (or are my love-making skills worth at least that??)

I don't appreciate all of you women out there who just said "karma" out loud, by the way...

Picture ID

Now, I wait upon the homelessness place to get back to me on helping me to get a picture ID from the state of Louisiana. It hasn't happened yet, and I wonder if I gave them my mothers phone number wrong.

At the point of getting the ID I think I will go to Shereveport. I am pretty sure that I can make about the same money busking there, as every city seems to want to be New Orleans and have a Bourbon Street and the sight of a street musician is a harbinger of the transformation of their city into a Big Easy in its own right; and they tip better than the people in New Orleans. The irony of that is amusing...