19th book of the year, “4, 3, 2, 1", by Paul Auster ( https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/4321-by-Paul-Auster-10889359.php)

Loved it, spent most of my spare time since I started it with it, will miss it, probably missed a lot in it.

🎼 “Lines form on my face and hands"

Yeah it be like that

🎤 "Lines form from the ups and downs”

ikr?

🎸 “I’m in the middle without any plans"

Aren’t we all?

🤘🏼 “I’m a boy and I’m a man”

Yeah I feel like I’ve I’m on my third mid-life cri—

👼🏼 “I’m eighteen!"

Jesus H. Christ! No! Shut up!

🤌🏼

Youtube is so great for guitar players. Via Norman’s Rare Guitars “Guitar of the Day”, in addition to the hosts, I got into Josh Smith, and from Josh to Bruce Foreman, and also from Josh to Greg Koch.

Got a ticket to finally see Bruce Foreman in three weeks at the Keys Jazz Bistro, hell yeah.

Up all night worrying that we haven’t begun design let alone construction of a thousand foot tall colossus (my preferred design is a phoenix looking west) atop earthworks in the san francisco bay, which, as a long term serious thinker, is my only political issue

“there are only one shelter bed for every 15 people sleeping on the streets and some judge has the nerve—” Shut up! Shut up! What about the colossus?!

this

post

was

drafted

with

four

leading

spaces

on

every

line

“It’s so dark with all this wood paneling, so to brighten it up, we’re going to paint it all this true white, and the walls this more neutral blue/gray. To separate these two rooms, we had a local artisan make this barn door to hang on rollers.”

“Wow, it really does look like a barn door with these rails and stiles.", Norm said.

“And for this accent wall, we were thinking, shiplap.”

getting really close to watching the video cassette of space balls the movie w/ my This Old House speed run, and it is terrible. I’m now skipping the interior design nonsense like I already skip any home alarm system nonsense.

the corrupt frisco wallet inspector is still funny as hell https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/rodrigo-santos-sentenced-to-prison/

alright, “4321” has my attention, this is lovely