Continuing Life Lessons...

Ok, fresh from rocking the house at the Comedy Zone in Warwick, RI with Headliner Tony Tone last night…I’m back from the hotel breakfast buffet and ready to pontificate… Maybe I should just regurgitate after all the food I just ate???

I’ll definitely be heading to the hotel fitness room for some time on the treadmill when I finish checking with all of you… If I go now I’m liable to get a cramp, as they say…

Two more shows tonight 8pm and 10pm… I’ll need a nap this afternoon, too… Because tonight I intend on pushing against the edges of the envelope… I don’t think I’ll tear it… But it might not return to its normal shape after the stretching I am prepared to give it…

On Sunday’s drive home I’m planning a stop at the Submarine museum in Groton, CT… while I would love to spend some time there with Eileen… I think it will be an interesting walk back in time for me to make alone, too…

I’ve written a few pieces about my service time… Looking back now it’s interesting to see it from the perspective of time… A lifetime ago… We were young, cocksure and immortal then… I look back now forgetting the hardships and remembering it as some of the best times of my life…

Though the comedy calendar for the rest of the year is a bit sparse… The constant battle to keep it as full and profitable as possible being probably the major outside source of the stress I spoke about yesterday…Admittedly the rest comes from the stress I add myself… Internalized stress can eat up… Luckily for me I’ve never been one to hold much of it in… I don’t think Eileen always feels lucky about that though… Maybe that’s why she bought me a big suitcase for Christmas last year… J

Venting it unconstructively though hasn’t much helped reduce it… So tonight I plan on channeling it to the outer edges of the proverbial envelope I spoke about earlier…

I do have a gig booked at The Polish Club in Herkimer, NY Booked by Headliner Don Adams, a one time Herkimer resident now living in Florida… We’ll be working with Jon Hausman as the MC… It should be a fun show.
October 13 – November 3 will find me at the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant for three weeks of contract work… While I’m looking forward to the nice pay checks that accompany it… I had to opt out of two gigs previously booked… L

November 13 – 14 is the Grand Opening Weekend of the new Bonkerz Comedy Club at the Hampton Inn in Colchester, VT… I’ll be opening three shows for Headliner Artie Fletcher and I’m pretty excited about that…

November 21 finds me closer to home at the Livonia, NY Volunteer Fire Department Annual Awards Dinner with Dan Maslyn… I love those kinds of shows and December 18 I’ll be doing another for the Mahopac, NY Volunteer Fire Department Christmas Party with Mike “Mack” McKenna and MC Eileen Loveman!!!

Yes, she’s sleeping with me for stage time… Ok, it’s out there now for the world to see… No sense hiding it… I just wish she didn’t snore…

So while there are a lot of open dates on the calendar… The ones that are filled, promise to be fun filled and I’ll continue to try and fill some more open dates… Bookers are you reading this??? Maybe we’ll take a trip to NYC after the show in Carmel, NY???

Though the weekend before Christmas in NYC might not be as low stress as I might be hoping for…

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