Don’t it always seem…?
My insomnia has been back with a vengeance these days.
The boy’s been away for three weeks now but, because he’s coming back soon, I met up with who I could while he was away.
On that note, I went to my office for the first time in a while. A lotta new (young) faces.
We went to the Campbell and I had some drinks with my boss before I struck up conversation with a pair of blue eyes.
I meet people every day but, just like years ago, meeting people is never the issue. It’s connecting with people of my tribe that’s the hard part.
Friend: What’s the problem? Meet someone, stick it in. It’s not rocket science.
Me: (dryly) Glad to see romance isn’t dead in 2022.
We had another Scenic Fight shoot this past weekend. It was mostly Chad and Pac because my knee’s been so jacked.
But I was busy dealing with legal issues for them, so I’ve been busy enough as it is.
My shoot was only about 2.5 hours; those guys were there from early morning to late night.
But I was running on fumes anywho, what with my knee and lack of sleep.
Pac wanted to eat, drink, and talk, though. Everyone’s got their own demons to fight.
We went to my favourite dive bar around the way. Alla the food joints near me were closed so we ordered DoorDash to bring over Korean wings.
Me: $72 for wings? That’s insane.
Him: (shrugging) Dude, I’m tired and lazy. I’m doing it.
Me: Fiiiiine…
I got a lotta ducks shirts – either ones people buy me or I buy myself – because of my tendency to send women unsolicited duck pics.
Dunno what the big deal is, frankly. Ducks are so damn cute.
Anywho, I was wearing once such shirt at this bar and the bartender and I were chatting for a bit when he says, “Hold on…” and hands me this little rubber ducky that matched my shirt perfectly.
Him: (laughing) It matches your shirt!
Me: My kid’s gonna love this, thanks!
Found it far more amusing than Pac did.
Anywho, he filled me in on his life and filled me in on some data I was missing with other things.
Him: I wanted to know your point of view.
Me: That was interesting. But, not at all, how I saw it. Here’s how I saw it…
That’s the thing with life, there’s my side, the other side, and the truth.
And that’s always the case, irrespective of what we believe.
Man, don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone?
Location: earlier tonight, 16th Street, wondering if he was gonna take out a gun and shoot
Mood: mopey
Music: Why do you want me? (Spotify)
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2 replies on “Sending unsolicited duck pics”
I’ve been struggling with insomnia my whole life too. Tried every otc medication, prescriptions, herbal, natural, homeopathic what have you and never got relief. I finally got some ADHD meds and it’s like night and day. Wondering if you might benefit from it since your brain works at a frenetic place and might not turn off at night
Man, how did I miss this comment?! Yup, I take some pretty solid meds these days that mostly work. When they don’t, which is rare, it’s awful.