Sweet Home Topeka

Friday April 25th, 2008 - Topeka, KS

I’m back to where it all started. My diary that is. I was here on my birthday (March 14th) in 2006 and that’s when I started keeping a daily record of my life and I haven’t missed a single day since. It‘s become a regular part of my day and I hope to keep it up until I die.

The real trick will be keeping it up in the next life if indeed there is one. What’s over on that other side? I guess we’ll all find out soon enough so I’ll keep my focus on this life for as long as I’m sucking air. The next world will hopefully not need to have diaries written.

Hopefully we’ll all be rich and good looking and young and having so much fun there is no time or need to read anything. But until that time I will keep cranking out my life story day by day and page by page. I have come to really enjoy the experience of a daily enema.

Whether I’m feeling on top of the world or under it I clean it out of my system through my fingers when I type my daily installment. It makes me feel like I accomplished at least a little something by finishing each day’s page and I have something to show for all of my struggles. I’ve gained some regular readers along the way and I’m really grateful for that.

I never really considered myself a writer though and I still don’t. I’m a comedian and an entrepreneur. The comedian part has taken a lifetime to develop and I’m just now starting to work on the entrepreneur part. That’s what’s going to put me over the top if indeed I’m ever going to get there. Comedy sure didn’t but I still enjoy doing it. I’m a lifetime addict.

All those thoughts came flooding back tonight as I did the show at J.J. Bullfrogs. This is a nice place and even though it’s a sports bar they have a separate room for comedy and it draws a nice crowd of people who usually come to laugh. I’ve always liked coming here.

They put us in a decent hotel and all in all this is a doable gig. The booker lets me come here pretty much when I want and there is also a Tuesday night show which tacks on to a week in Kansas City quite nicely. The weekends have a different lineup of comedians and this week it’s me. Maybe next time I’ll take the Tuesday when I work Kansas City again.

It felt great to take it easy today and not have the stress of doing 97 miles an hour trying to make it to the show on time. There was even a big sports card show in Kansas City so I stopped and was able to take a lap on the way here. Even with that pit stop I cruised in by 5pm and the show wasn’t until 8:30. MUCH better doing it this way. I even got a nap in.

There’s still something fun about being on the road even though it can be a grind. I love the shows and always will. I also love the experience of going places I’ve never been (and there aren’t that many anymore) and meeting people I normally would never get to meet.

I did that today in Missouri. There was a diner that had a fried chicken special for $5.25 that blew the Colonel back to Kentucky. WOW was it good. There was a small town vibe and a sexy waitress who flirted with me the whole time. This is what makes the road fun.