Life Lessons from the Road

Boldly promising a blog by the end of the weekend today… Forces me to sit myself before my laptop now in an effort to begin the search for coherent thoughts that can be linked together… Lately the pace I’ve been trying to maintain has blocked much of that effort…

Constantly working the email lines to try to keep my calendar filled, obviously keeps me on the road when I’m successful… When I am home I’m trying to keep up with yard work and other chores that have been “piling up”…

There have been lots of fleeting thoughts zinging through the empty space between my ears… They usually appear while I’m doing 70mph… I’ve even managed to add a few new jokes to some of bits…

But am I having enough coherent thoughts to link together into a blog??? Granted sometimes I’m tired and maybe a little road weary… It’s easy then to say… “Well, I’ll write it later”… But when you’re packing up the car every morning during a string of one-nighter’s… Sometimes later doesn’t come…

This weekend I’m in Warwick, Rhode Island for Comedy Zone… Friday and Saturday three shows… I won’t have to pack the car again until Sunday… It’s my first time performing in Rhode Island and my first time working for Comedy Zone… So though I’ll need a nap shortly before getting ready I thought I’d at least start a blog… Maybe it’ll be a “to be continued” weekend project???

Stopping in Schenectady, NY Wednesday night for a Comic Syndrome open mic at The Union Inn on my way to Rhode Island it was good to see some familiar faces…

The place was full and though most of the patrons weren’t there initially to see comedy… They paid surprisingly good attention to most of the show… It turned out to be a fun evening… One I certainly needed…

I titled this “Life Lessons from the Road” because spending a lot of time alone in my car lately has given me time to reflect on a lot of things… Sometimes the hardest lessons are the ones we learn about ourselves…

Especially during times of stress… Sometimes the stress may be only coming from inside us… Sometimes it’s outside forces and other pressures… Sometimes it’s a combination… How we respond to it will determine what we learn from it…

Long hours alone in the car eventually leave no where to hide from our thoughts… Honest reflection makes things painfully honest where a tune up is needed… It usually ain’t “the other guy” who needs it…

The Bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.” I’m paraphrasing, but sometimes we need to remember to think about what is really important… Forgetting that sometimes opens the door to a lot of extra stress we don’t need… There’s enough out there already… And this is enough blog already…

Actually the path I was going to take this thought just detoured out of my head… So it must mean it is time for a pre-game nap, some exercise, a shave & shower… And its SHOWTIME!!!

I’ll be back later… Ya’ll come back later, too…