Life after 42

It's interesting to review how your life changes.  And by interesting, I mean it combines all the elements of nostalgia, remorse, elation, love, fear and all the minutia of day to day living into an encapsulated nugget of memory.

So now I'm 42.  And to say, "A lot has changed in the past year." is not only cliche, but horribly inaccurate.  Of course a lot has changed.  Even if I'm still at the same job, still in love with the same woman or still sure that I could sustain myself on pizza for the rest of my life, every moment is change and pushes me toward new horizons.

No turning 42 has not given me clarity.  And it most certainly hasn't offered me the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.  Technically....I think.......I am the answer. But even then, no one is searching me out as if I'm a Tibetan Monk.  Hell, I'm still trying to figure out things in my own life.  Heaven forbid anyone asks my advice.  Of course, I'm going to offer it to you anyway.  Stay young at heart and learn something new everyday.  Always (and this can not be stressed enough) do what makes you happy.  If anyone tries to pull you away from that happiness, then you need to not be around those people.  Everything else is just a version of the 10 Commandments;  Don't Hate, Don't Kill, Be Kind,  So Some Fucking Respect, etc.

Coming off my bi-annual cold.  My cough always sounds like I'm about to die of consumption, but that's how I cough.  I'm more likely to get an aneurysm from the physical stress my coughs put me through.  Needless to say, I've got two shows coming up up in the next two weeks and I'm praying the bug goes away.  Can't blame smoking anymore.   6 months and counting.  I'll  be fine.  Thanks for asking.

"Marry Me a Little" the Sondheim concoction of unused songs from other shows has a three night run at the Art Square Theater (Cockroach Theatre) next week, and I keep feeling like I'm the weakest singer of the bunch.  The show is being broken down into 4 couples, so I only have to sing a couple of songs.   But still, the other singers are some of Las Vegas' best.  Thankfully, I recognize that I would never have been asked to be part of this show if I couldn't carry a tune.

"Love Song" by John Kolvenbach opens in the same theater on Dec 7th for a three week run.  Very fun show.  Such subtleties in the humor and construct of the script.  Need to get off book by week's end.  Grateful to Erik Amblad for his direction.  Nice to finally get to work with him.

We'll see what the new year holds.........I've got a couple of secrets, but don't want to share just yet.

Debating on a Twitter account.  I don't know if I have that much to say.

Intermission

Act I of Biloxi Blues clocked in at about an hour....not bad with the Tetris set being changed in the dark. These boys have made some fine progress in the past 31 days. They're not fighting soldiers yet, but I'd put then up against a Nazi cocktail waitress any time. Ho!

Biloxi Blues

Please disregard the actual Navy awards mixed with the ROTC ribbons and Army insignia.  It's my costume. If you don't like it, drop and give me 20.

Five years later.

Found my old blog today...last posted on my birthday 5 years ago.  Ha!  Apparently I get the urge to write once every five years.  I guess that's better than my old trend of quitting jobs every five years.   (Note to self, current job ends in 2014).

So I've decided to post my thoughts again.  For the moment, that's it.  Since I was rebuilding my website that I also lost access to 5 years ago......(due to a server migration, not due to anything I intentionally did)...... I figured it was time to update my Blog.