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I didn’t account for the weather when I accepted the bar shift. It was going to be a long day anyway. My Sundays are pretty set: I get to the Duck at 10:30am, right when they open, and stay till 1ish. Then I proceed at a leisurely pace to the bookstore for my 2pm-7pm shift.Continue reading “Oscars at the bar”

Digging through the dozens of cardboard boxes in the back closet of the bookstore, I came upon two oversized folders containing portraits of US presidents. I researched what the folder might fetch on the market and it didn’t come to too much. Joe decided to keep one and gave me the other. The folder wasContinue reading “The Presidents”

Bill asked me to drive him to Columbia, Missouri, so I do. We leave early on Friday and return late Saturday. He plays three shows in between. I drive and haul gear. It’s a good division of labor. The last couple hours of the ride, the nav system has us on everything but dirt roads.Continue reading “truefalse”