My Every Day Obervations

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lancerobotson: we made it to Eugene. we stayed with a buddy of mine for a few days before going up to Portland. he gave us a ride, we offered a token gas money donation early on, before we were broke, which we knew was an eventuality. “listen,” I sez, “by the time we go up there we aren’t gonna have any money, so if we give you fifteen bucks now, you can spend it on whatever kind of fun you want to have today, as long as you’ll still take us to Portland, even though we’ll be poor and have been staying with you for days and have eaten your food and all.” he already had another guy staying on his couch when we arrived. and the place is way small, but we made it work. the girl has good nesting instincts, there’s floorspace. we sit outside and smoke and talk with the neighbors who are all really chill, telling us about how the music scene in Eugene is really happening, how the bands always stop thru on their way to portland, stop to do a show and make gasoline monies. we fry our brains on all night surreal cartoon extravaganzas and melt off the walls hilarity side splitting, hikes up to Hendrix park looking like Jurassic park all up in the hills and fancy houses wondering if front yards are parklands or private drives or trails… saw a few local buddies and got to scheme on coming back thru town after a short stint in PDX. the constant feelings of reunions and hero’s welcomes, the excitement of reconnecting, and introducing old friends and new friends from different concurrent parts of life, my friends generally get along with each other, and our hosts generally find my travel partner and myself to be an engaging duo, entertaining enough at least, do a song and dance for your meal is my usual routine, but having around a girl helps too, she doesn’t even have to pretend to try to be entertaining, and can get by on a sort of Tao-of-doing-nothing-ness. I admire that about her, even if she claims to have zero life ambitions. what’s worse than a shiftless layabout? I’ll tell ya. someone who just tries too hard.

lancerobotson:

we made it to Eugene. we stayed with a buddy of mine for a few days before going up to Portland. he gave us a ride, we offered a token gas money donation early on, before we were broke, which we knew was an eventuality. “listen,” I sez, “by the time we go up there we aren’t gonna have any money, so if we give you fifteen bucks now, you can spend it on whatever kind of fun you want to have today, as long as you’ll still take us to Portland, even though we’ll be poor and have been staying with you for days and have eaten your food and all.”

he already had another guy staying on his couch when we arrived. and the place is way small, but we made it work. the girl has good nesting instincts, there’s floorspace. we sit outside and smoke and talk with the neighbors who are all really chill, telling us about how the music scene in Eugene is really happening, how the bands always stop thru on their way to portland, stop to do a show and make gasoline monies. we fry our brains on all night surreal cartoon extravaganzas and melt off the walls hilarity side splitting, hikes up to Hendrix park looking like Jurassic park all up in the hills and fancy houses wondering if front yards are parklands or private drives or trails… saw a few local buddies and got to scheme on coming back thru town after a short stint in PDX.

the constant feelings of reunions and hero’s welcomes, the excitement of reconnecting, and introducing old friends and new friends from different concurrent parts of life, my friends generally get along with each other, and our hosts generally find my travel partner and myself to be an engaging duo, entertaining enough at least, do a song and dance for your meal is my usual routine, but having around a girl helps too, she doesn’t even have to pretend to try to be entertaining, and can get by on a sort of Tao-of-doing-nothing-ness. I admire that about her, even if she claims to have zero life ambitions. what’s worse than a shiftless layabout? I’ll tell ya. someone who just tries too hard.

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