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late wednesday night Gertrudy escaped and ran away...so thursday consisted of some search parties, etc...i even tried bringing Horace out on a leash, that maybe his presence would be more welcoming to her or whatever (yeah, sort of a desperate, outlandish idea...but i'm no professional cat tracker...) being on a leash just made him freak out though...i did carry him around the block...dear lord is that cat HEAVY...thankfully she returned thursday evening...and i got my new shoes in the mail on thursday too...brown (chocolate) chuck taylors...i had to get double tongue since they had a much nicer off-white rubber part instead of the plain white that the regular ones had...but if i don't fold the outer tongue down and just wear it up then it's just like regular ones anyway...also, later thursday evening i read the last page of The Box Man by Kobo Abe (as that's all that was left after work that day...)
on my lunch break at work i ran into Paul and he invited me to join in karaoke that evening for his daughter Rachel's 18th birthday...so i went...it was at some place in bartlett called Jordan's that i'd never heard of...and it's funny 'cuz it's mostly inhabited by bartlett-type older people...but i hadn't karaoked in about three years so that was fun...Paul and his kids and his mom and Shawna and David were all there...i started off with some Led Zeppelin, of course...i don't even think i remember the name of the song, it was one i didn't know...next was "Cold Gin" by Kiss...mostly i wanted to enact the stage banter Paul Stanley has used for just about EVERY show played for over 30 years...but the song started too song, i did get the most important part in "does anybody out there like the taste of...ALCOHOL!?" and even though i think it's a Gene song i did it in my best exaggerated Paul Stanley impersonation...and lastly was "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'"...it was good because after all the shrieking my voice was messed up so i sang even worse than normal...but none of that is what makes last night noteworthy...uh...there was this older guy who was very drunk and the whole night though i didn't pay much attention to him at the time he was kind of imposing himself on other tables and groups of people and dancing with every girl he could get his hands on...towards the end of the evening he grabbed Rachel and danced with her...just keep in mind no description i could type could come close to demonstrating how creepy this was...he didn't do anything overt like grab her ass, but he was rubbing his hands around her back one went up to her neck just barely moving over to touch her skin...he tried to kiss her...afterwards she ran back to the table but he came over and kept bothering her...trying to touch her and get her to dance some more...i counteracted with the only "way i know"...i started rubbing my hand on his back (once i touched his leg) and tried to get him to dance with me...after a while of these diversionary tactics (which unfortunately didn't really seem to phase him, he just kept going back to Rachel) he said he was a "heterosexual" i said so was i and i winked at him...then i said "don't be shy" lightly stroking his back...i asked if he wanted me to sing a song to him...mentioned Judas Priest (which they didn't have any) and then Queen (which they did...but it turned out too late to put in a new song anyway...) as i said, he really didn't get the hint, a very one-track mind...so David finally stepped up and said something like "hey, leave her alone..." etc...and we all joined in telling him to go away...he did, came back and tried to apologize while rubbing her head...once again he was told to stop and we thought the management talked to him or something...he stayed away for a while...finally he came back and sat at the table next to ours...sat there for a little while, then tried it again...Rachel hit him and Paul flipped out and yelled at him then the management people came over to calm it down and finally just made him leave (he was seen stumbling away on a bicylce...) afterwards we went to Perkins and hung out for a little longer...i woke realy early today (considering when i went to bed)...i REALLY need to write today...i need to finish this story i've barely started for this contest thingie (i have no delusions of actually winning, but finding excuses for dealines and motivation are very good for me because i have no self-discipline and would otherwise almost never write at all...)
on my lunch break at work i ran into Paul and he invited me to join in karaoke that evening for his daughter Rachel's 18th birthday...so i went...it was at some place in bartlett called Jordan's that i'd never heard of...and it's funny 'cuz it's mostly inhabited by bartlett-type older people...but i hadn't karaoked in about three years so that was fun...Paul and his kids and his mom and Shawna and David were all there...i started off with some Led Zeppelin, of course...i don't even think i remember the name of the song, it was one i didn't know...next was "Cold Gin" by Kiss...mostly i wanted to enact the stage banter Paul Stanley has used for just about EVERY show played for over 30 years...but the song started too song, i did get the most important part in "does anybody out there like the taste of...ALCOHOL!?" and even though i think it's a Gene song i did it in my best exaggerated Paul Stanley impersonation...and lastly was "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'"...it was good because after all the shrieking my voice was messed up so i sang even worse than normal...but none of that is what makes last night noteworthy...uh...there was this older guy who was very drunk and the whole night though i didn't pay much attention to him at the time he was kind of imposing himself on other tables and groups of people and dancing with every girl he could get his hands on...towards the end of the evening he grabbed Rachel and danced with her...just keep in mind no description i could type could come close to demonstrating how creepy this was...he didn't do anything overt like grab her ass, but he was rubbing his hands around her back one went up to her neck just barely moving over to touch her skin...he tried to kiss her...afterwards she ran back to the table but he came over and kept bothering her...trying to touch her and get her to dance some more...i counteracted with the only "way i know"...i started rubbing my hand on his back (once i touched his leg) and tried to get him to dance with me...after a while of these diversionary tactics (which unfortunately didn't really seem to phase him, he just kept going back to Rachel) he said he was a "heterosexual" i said so was i and i winked at him...then i said "don't be shy" lightly stroking his back...i asked if he wanted me to sing a song to him...mentioned Judas Priest (which they didn't have any) and then Queen (which they did...but it turned out too late to put in a new song anyway...) as i said, he really didn't get the hint, a very one-track mind...so David finally stepped up and said something like "hey, leave her alone..." etc...and we all joined in telling him to go away...he did, came back and tried to apologize while rubbing her head...once again he was told to stop and we thought the management talked to him or something...he stayed away for a while...finally he came back and sat at the table next to ours...sat there for a little while, then tried it again...Rachel hit him and Paul flipped out and yelled at him then the management people came over to calm it down and finally just made him leave (he was seen stumbling away on a bicylce...) afterwards we went to Perkins and hung out for a little longer...i woke realy early today (considering when i went to bed)...i REALLY need to write today...i need to finish this story i've barely started for this contest thingie (i have no delusions of actually winning, but finding excuses for dealines and motivation are very good for me because i have no self-discipline and would otherwise almost never write at all...)