Adventures at the Café...

So I tried to take it easy today and work from home...I finished watching Kung Fu Hustle (which I purchased and started the night before) and fell asleep on my couch. I got about an hour's worth of work done (which translates into a week's worth if I was at the office). I decided to get some lunch and a change of scenery and headed over to Panera Bread and set up camp in the café. I was here eating lunch (Portabello & Mozarella on Rosemary & Onion Foccata Bread with Olive Spread) and was starting on finishing my day's work. I thought about the Collective Soul show the other night and was peeking around the net looking to see if anyone had any photos of the concert. I sneezed and this guy sitting a couple tables away blessed me and then asked me if I was in a band because he saw me browsing photos of people with guitars (Collective Soul). I told him "No" and that I had seen Collective Soul a couple nights ago. We talked about the show for a minute and he (who was older than me) told me about the days of "The Who". There was a pause and I thought about the response I gave about being in a band, and thought to myself, "Wait a minute, I have music too though..." so I said, "Actually, I am a musician." And we talked for a bit. Thanks to free wi-fi, my laptop and iTunes, he introduced me to a unique artist - Laurie Anderson...who I will have to listen to more of to decide if I like or not. I showed him some of my material and he seemed to really dig it. (I know, I just used the term "dig" but I like it.) He was encouraging in our discussion and then shook my hand and left. It's times like these that really push me to work harder on my music.

All that said, I'm ready to leave Panera and I didn't really get much more done work wise, but I figured I deserved a day off, I'd been working weekdays and weekends for about three weeks now...so, now I finish my cherry danish and leave...good day to all... ;)

-Rod

P.S. Jacie and Anson, good to hear from you on the last comments, I'll try to be in touch soon! ;)