Sat May 1 = After breakfast I sought out the West Biloxi Public Library to update my website's blog etc.
- Since it was sunny for a change, I left the library in time to find a good spot on the beach to sun for 20 minutes and then do a run for about four minutes.
- It took a phone call to Gulfport BoardSports to find the local kiteboarding beach in Gulfport, MS at E Beach Blvd & Kelly Ave. There were about four kiters there; mostly foiling (riding foil boards).
The wind was only about 12 mph. A guy there said, "Hey take out my 13. It's ready to go and has a lot of power." It was a Duo Tone Juice. Most people don't let others use their kites because they are pricey and easily damaged. I had to rearrange my van to get to my harness which was in the compartment under all my comedy stuff. What a mess. I rode 1.71 miles in about 20 minutes with his kite and my AXIS Vanguard 132 x 41cm twin-tip board, did a few carves, toe-side turns and little jumps.
- I drove up north a few miles to the American Legion Post#119 where I will do a show in a week. I was a little disappointed in their publicity. They had only a couple 11x17" posters - no big poster. But they did suggest that I check with VFW Post 4526 a little south for overnight parking for my van, so I drove there.
- VFW Post 4526 was great. Jen, the assistant manager who does all the scheduling, and I worked out a date and all the details for me to do a show for them, in addition to allowing me to spend my nights west of their building while I am in the area. She put up all three my 2x3' generic posters with information about their show in dry erase marker at the bottom. By bedtime I had made a publicity kit for the post, ordered 2x3' posters for me to pick up from Office Depot tomorrow and added the event to my website for May 12th.
- Got to bed at 10:57
Sun May 2 = In the middle of the night last night, I thought of trying to combine my three southern Mississippi appearances onto one mini poster rather than just passing out my text-only Show Slips, so first thing after breakfast I went to the nearby Office Max to create my idea (left poster) while waiting for the print center to finish the job I created last night (right poster)
- Today's big project, done inside VFW Post 4526 because no libraries are open on Sundays, was to restore 10 past appearances I had deleted from this year's
Arizona Lou's Veterans Appreciation National Tour 2021. Now you can see the entire tour, rather than just my upcoming stops.
- Toward evening I drove to a nearby Planet Fitness for a poo and shower. Didn't have time for even a short workout.
- Heading back to VFW Post 4526 for the night, I located the Orange Grove Library for tomorrow's work. This was a challenge because both Garmins and my
Kia
Lou's 2020 Kia Sedona minivan configured as a mini-motorhome that he drives and where he lives during his road tours
GPS receivers sent me on wild goose chases. My Pixel 4a phone was the only GPS that correctly showed the library's location.
- Got to bed at 10:36 at the VFW Post 4526, to the north of their west parking lot, away from most of the noisy Dedeaux Rd traffic.
Mon May 3 = So I won't injure myself by catching a toenail on something I decided I ought to get a pedicure... my first. Going into The Nail Palace in North Gulfport, I said to myself, I hope no one I know sees me going into this place. My pedicurist, Hong from Vietnam, used a lot of gestures because she spoke no English. My toenails are now shorter than usual but my socks don't snag on them. I'll have to work the pedicure into my comedy routine.
- The rest of the day I spent in the Orange Grove Library until it closed at 6, had supper and did some 45 lb dumbbell inclined bench presses and short slow arms workout.
- I did a little shopping at a nearby Walmart Neighborhood Market and spent the night back at the
VFW Post 4526 - this time my van parked parallel to their building facing the road, trying to fir the best sleeping conditions of reduced road noise and no heat from the morning sun.
- Got to bed at 10:24
Tue May 4 = After breakfast I went to Walmart for five gallons of their bulk filtered drinking water for 39¢ per gallon for my van's running water system.
- At the Orange Grove Library I mostly did web stuff, some graphics and an email for my tour and resolved my checking account.
- The trees were blowing in the wind, so this afternoon I took a break from the library to uncover my kiteboarding equipment storage compartment by offloading my comedy stuff at the American Legion Post 119. Thanks, guys. I did the 20-minute drive to the location on the gulf where I kiteboarded on Saturday, to find only 11-13 mph winds. Back to the library until they closed at 7pm.
- I topped off the evening at the VFW Post 4526 with lots of rain. Back in my van, I put on my Comedian Hat and reviewed the sequence for the full show I'll be doing on Saturday.
- Got to bed at 10:12 for a night of rain, some very heavy, and rolling thunder most of the night.
Wed May 5 = This morning I washed the few bugs off the front of my van since they had soaked all night in the rain. Shopping was at Dollar Tree and Walmart; Gym was Planet Fitness for my weekly
poster trim
weekly trimming of my beard, eye brows and little quiff so I match my poster photos
and a short slow heavy torso workout.
- At the Orange Grove Library I made about 100 mini posters for the Wednesday May 12th show. I didn't notice that the printer defaults back to B&W so they are not colored. Ah, well, nothing's perfect.I left voice mails at the National Parks Department's Hatteras National Seashore office, touching bases with them on my Comedy-n-Sunset shows scheduled for June.
- I batted 100% :( After the library closed, back in my van in the parking lot, trying to phone contacts for seven veterans' posts about the Publicity Kit email which none have answered in five days. These are posts which have already scheduled shows: 100% not answering my emails and 100% not answering their phones. This is the most frustrating part of stand up comedy: Veterans posts that are unprofessional.
- Got to bed at 10:50
Thu May 6 = Finding a touchless automatic car wash was not all good. Brother Robert, holy roller of the FPC of Orange Grove (First Pentecostal Church) owner, does not keep it up very well. the touchless credit card reader was not working, the magnetic card reader did not work, the free-vacuum token dispenser was not dispensing, one of the vacuums was out of order and, to boot, the washer only washed from the top and sides (no front or back) and was not capable of a fresh-water undercarriage rinse. After their $5 wash, my van was not clean. You could still see where my magnetic signs had been due to the residual dirt on the doors.
- At solar noon I was lying down on the beach of the Gulf of Mexico in the sun under a nearly cloudless sky absorbing vitamin D for 20 minutes. That was followed by a five-minute beach run. At first no one else was on that long beach at Beach Road and Kelly Avenue in Gulfport.
- After lunch in my van I drove to the Gulfport Library to work until they closed at 6. Among other things I did my monthly blog rollover in 18 minutes.
- Then on to the Walmart Super Center for a little shopping, people watching and general loitering.
- I got to VFW Post 4526 with about an hour to kill so I organized the naming of my 8-up mini posters and created mini posters for all seven of my Ohio shows in July.
- Got to bed about 10:54
Fri May 7 = After breakfast and before leaving my spot on the shady side of VFW Post 4526 I set up my van office, phoned the FAA about an extension for my pilot's medical application and calendared the necessary phone calls for the last of May.
- Here's a map from Google with the places I have visited in April. I drove in six states.
- A little shopping at Walmart, and the library rounded out the afternoon. The library closed at 4pm.
- The Dollar Tree down at Crossroads did not have an ice cream sandwich for my Friday night treat, so I got one on the way back up north at a Shell where I saw this car. Now I appreciated White Trash a little more. Notice how clean and shiny the car is!
- This evening I went through my entire show, including the introduction. The process took a little over 90 minutes.
- Got to bed about 10:05
Sat May 8 = After breakfast I road a Planet Fitness elliptical fast for two minutes, then went to the Orange Grove library, with a break for lunch, until they closed at 4pm
- At 4pm I went to The American Legion Post 119 to put out my chasing LED sign and set up for tonight's show.
- Mary, the bartender helped rearrange the hall seating for the show and I set up all my merch, four cameras, my
The little 10" Windows 10 computer I bought to get me by in Tobago in 2017 after my Dell XPS died. It's tight, with only 2gb RAM and a 32gb SSD hard drive, but the 128gb micro SD card I have in it helps a little.
for showing videos during the show and set up my
XPS
Dell XPS-13 laptop computer with 13.3" touch screen, 60WHr Integrated Battery, Windows 10, Intel 7th Generation Core i7 CPU, 16gb memory and 1TB SSD
playing my Roast from my Album #2. It turns out that all our efforts were wasted energy.
- What followed makes me appreciate other shows that have not gone well. At show time there was an audience of four. I should have listened to myself, because I have always said, I'd rather have a few in a hall than a lot in a bar. - Dorothy suggested we move the show into the bar where there would be an audience of 20, so I went for quantity instead of quality. At least I demonstrated my flexibility. I shut off all my cameras and moved me and my PA system into the bar and set up a stage on the 18x24" step leading to the hall.
My audience of 20 went like this:
Four watched, listened, appreciated and laughed when they were not distracted by the others
A table of five was determined to defiantly visit during the entire show
Eight made a point to not turn to watch the show, but waited until it was over, making my expressions and act-outs irrelevant
One guy tried to end the show early by interrupting with his comments and applauses
Another guy kept interrupting with negative and insulting remarks. Dorothy said he was drunk. After the show he made a $20 donation to Duet. Maybe he felt guilty.
- This may be my worst show yet. It is comforting to know I've got it out of the way. After the show, Dorothy apologized and explained that this behavior is common for this bar crowd and similar to their antics during their own Karaoke shows. I am looking forward to my next show with the bar set so high (low).
- Got to bed at 11:30
Sun May 9 = I tweaked my Album#2 by updating to generic posters and moving a link to a Headshot video that somehow got on it to the Resources section of my Comedy Home page.
- I spent most of the afternoon and evening hanging out at the Gulfport VFW Post 4526. Good group. Making five new of my Album#2's was frustrating. I tried for seven but two of the thumb drives were defective and did not work right - even after doing a complete format with one of them, and that took about an hour :(
- About 3:50pm I ate an early supper. The post was offering cubbed steak, shrimp and salad and I couldn't see waiting until my normal supper time and letting the good stuff get cold.
- Got to bed at 10:15 and got up to pee four times... Probably a combination of drinking the last 10 ounces of 64 ounces of water at 3:15pm and my supper menu.
Mon May 10 = After breakfast I stayed in my nighttime parking place at
VFW Post 4526, thank you, making more phone calls to the Ohio veterans posts that have not answered my emails.
- Then at the Orange Grove Library, loading seven Album #2 thumb drives went like clockwork with my Anker 7-port USB hub. This took about an hour while I was working on other things.
- One of those things was developing, with both the text side and graphics side in one DOC document, two-sided mini posters to pass out for my shows.
- After the library closed I had supper in the parking lot in my van. Boy was I tired. Since I was in the shade of some trees at the far end of the parking lot I lay down and slept, probably for about 40 minutes. At least it was nearly dark when I got up.
- Got to bed at 10:58
Tues May 11 = It rained most of the night and all morning. Welcome to the gulf. I decided I didn't want to do laundry so went to Walmart and bought a dozen pair of white athletic socks, similar to the ones I already have. While there with the pitter-patter of the rain I had an early lunch.
- On the way to the library I stopped by The Home Depot for a roll of 2" masking tape to replace the roll that was evidently left at a previous venue. I use the tape to hold down my camera power cords so people won't trip.
- At the library I perfected and made a template for two-sided 8-up mini posters using a single DOC file, which saves me some steps. I printed out and cut up 80 for my show on Saturday in Pascagoula, MS.
- I ordered a publicity kit for a Cleveland, OH VFW post and sent out some two-sided 8-up mini poster files for shows in Ohio.
- Back at
VFW Post 4526, I unloaded my comedy stuff because tomorrow it might be raining and my stuff can't get wet. When I got ready to set up my goLEDgo sign its remote control was not in the bag. Disaster will ensue if the sign is incorrectly unplugged. I will have no way to get it going again.
- Got to bed at 11:20 :()
Wed May 12 = After breakfast I went to Planet Fitness to do my
poster trim
weekly trimming of my beard, eye brows and little quiff so I match my poster photos
, a shower and a short slow heavy legs workout.
- Right on schedule, I went up to the American Legion Post 119 to see if my goLEDgo sign's remote control might have fallen out of its bag. The remote was no where to be found :(
- On to the library for a couple hours before time to leave to set up for this evening's show. I worked on my blog, checked emails and developed a strategy for locating the goLEDgo sign's remote control.
- After Saturday night's disaster, I may be through doing shows in bars. Tonight was a totally different experience and probably the best yet on this tour.
- Back at at VFW Post 4526, the 5:00 show got started at 5:25, which was about right with audience members going in and out for various reasons. I think it would have been a mistake to start the show on time.
- Tonight I had a fun, involved, audience. Some people might call it heckling, but I called it participation.
- The small audience of 14 allowed more interaction, and we had fun for the hour and 11 minute show. It was all comedy - no video.
- I was not the only comedy there. It was a combination of me and the comments from the audience. They laughed their socks off. One lady called out, "Slow down because I'm starting to pee in my pants!"
- I got lots of accolades after the show. It just shows what can happen if you do a show in the hall (rather than the bar) with an audience that wants a comedy show.
- A gentleman from the American Legion where I did Saturday's show came to see this show and apologized profusely for Saturday's show... in their bar.
- Packing up everything from the show always takes time, about an hour, but I was a happy camper. They already booked a show for the same time next year, and Cincinnati wants me back again this year :)
- Got to bed at 11:08 for my last night parked beside VFW Post 4526.
Thu May 13 = After breakfast I drove east to Biloxi and to the WBUV FM radio station studios. There was no answer to their door bell button so I had lunch in their parking lot and eventually got to give my card to two ladies leaving in a hurry who said they would give it to the program director. I had tried to phone the station and their offices for several days. So much for that!
- Then on east to Pascagoula and the city library until they closed at 7 and had supper in their parking lot.
- It took me about an hour to find the
VFW Post#3373 because Garmin had it on Vega Street. Pure and simple. Someone decided it would be honorable to rename it to one of the longest street names anywhere: 1st Lieutenant Eugene J. Majure Drive.
- Bingo was in progress with about 80 players. At the close, I made a short announcement about the comedy show tomorrow night and passed out mini posters for the show.
- Got to bed at 11:02 by the VFW Post 3373 building for shade in the morning.
Fri May 14 = Most of the morning after breakfast I spent looking for the Chevron Federal Credit Union. It took stopping for directions twice because my Garmin GPS took me to an empty field. At the CU, I deposited about $150 cash from my T-Shirt sales into my Phoenix credit union. On the way it was interesting seeing some of the Chevron refinery complex.
- On the way back home I stopped by Walmart for some groceries and 24 pair of socks for a total of 36 new pair... all alike. Unfortunately they are not quite like my old ones, some of which are developing holes, so a little sock sorting is in my future.
- At solar noon I did my beach sun/run down on the gulf, absorbing rays to enhance my vitamin D.
- About 4 this afternoon I met David Pettys at the VFW Post#3373, who was reconfiguring the large hall for tomorrow's comedy show. What a good guy and a hard worker. I helped him, worked out some show details then spent several hours in the office I set up at a table in the corner of their pool room, doing mostly email and booking-type stuff.
- I let time slip away until a little after nine when Dollar Tree was closed for my Friday night ice cream sandwich treat, so I did a short slow heavy arms workout at the Planet Fitness.
- Got to bed at 11:41 :()
- Tonight's parking spot was as perfect as you can get, under the VFW's giant canopy, between two of their tandem trailers, where it will be quiet and perfect shade in the morning and all the next day :) ... until 6:55 am when a macho guy arrived, revving his Harley and sharing his loud music with the rest of the world. I turned on my LectroFan white noise machine...
which did OK until a riding lawn mower started taking care of the grass nearby.
Sat May 15 = SHOW DAY! I had a nice phone visit with
George & Cindy
my younger brother and his wife who live in Mesa, Arizona and have a mountain place in Christopher Creek
spent all morning working in my van office and tried some poster mounting squares for my van's house battery control switch. They were failed within 40 minutes :()
- Trying to stay on top of my Thank You Notes, I have started preparing them before a show by addressing the envelope and doing everything but writing the message inside.
- The show was great with a laughing audience of 28 for my one hour, 11 minute show, which included some video.. Gabe, with the assistance of his wife, did a great job with the high tech audio. David Pettys and everyone were excellent hosts.
- Got to bed at 11:33 :()
Sun May 16 = After fixing breakfast, I ate it on the way to West Chattanooga, TN.
- The Best Western Royal Inn did not get positive vibes from me this evening. The proprietor made a point to come out and tap on my van to chase me out of a large, empty except for two trucks, gravel parking lot, claiming that it was hotel (who would have known) property and I needed to move on. She did let me finish my thank you note.
- After Best Western, I went to Logan's Roadhouse to confirm some zero credit card balances and spent the night at the nearby Walmart.
- Got to bed at about 11:28.
Mon May 17 = After breakfast in my van, I ran (literally) into Walmart for a little grocery shopping and to replenish my van's running water reservoir.
- I found a Gold's Gym in downtown Chattanooga TN that was on the way to the
VFW Post#4848 so stopped by for a shower and a short slow heavy torso workout, then on to the post
- There I met Roy Ware, the post's quartermaster. They are going to have an ideal setup for my show on Thursday. Roy has passed out over 100 tickets :) In the post hall where I had Internet, power and a soft chair, I worked on some posters etc. and we printed out mini posters for Thursday's show.
- Got to bed at 10:22 to the west of the VFW building.
Tue May 18 = This morning I recharged my Shaver (Remington F5-5800). The last charge, back in Phoenix, lasted about a month and two weeks.
- I drove around looking for the nearby rail yard, with lots of tracks, which yielded some railroad noises, but everything was obstructed by trees.
- In perfect weather I drove to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum where I wondered among some of their historic equipment, ate lunch, worked on my website under a tree on a picnic bench and then took their train on a three-mile historic excursion that included several bridges, a long tunnel and, they say, the only operational turntable, which was operated by a 25hp electric motor. Here it is turning our locomotive around for the return trip.
- Spend the summer on OBX (off the coast of North Carolina), the premier vacation and beach area for the east coast. Kitty Hawk Kites, a seven-state company, needs workers in all areas from technology to retail, from instruction to reservations to warehouse. If you can do it they need you. At Kitty Hawk Kites they work hard and play hard. Play includes hang gliding, canoeing, stand up paddle boarding, kiteboarding etc. etc. During June, it can even include my Comedy-n-Sunset shows.
- I spoke with the owner this afternoon by phone and he is desperate for people. I told him I'd see what I could find. Check with me or follow these links:
Employment Internships Corporate - Back at the
VFW Post#4848, in the hall, I added to my Fan web page:
- Lenny's dance lesson interrupted my office work. He needed another guy to match up with the gals for the lesson. I was more than glad to join in this class for the salsa as new and novel learning to help forestall Alzheimer's.
- After the class Lenny offered music for a lot of different styles of partner dances, some of which I could not even pronounce. The gals whose toes I had tromped on were really smooth and suave as they glided across the floor with their partners. Amazing considering the condition of their toes. I was impressed.
- After the dancing I ordered a publicity kit to be shipped out to Defiance, OH for my show there the 24th of July.
- After the post was officially closed, I sat around the bar and visited with Roy, the quartermaster, Gabriella, the bar tender and another gentleman with a long white beard.
- Got to bed at 11:10
Wed May 19 = Today I went to Gold's Gym, did web work and worked with Ron on changing the post's hall into a comedy room.
- Got to bed at 10:40
Thu May 20 = Today was the big (and only) comedy show of the week. In the morning I went to Gold's Gym for a short slow heavy arms workout, then to
VFW Post#4848 to finish setting things up for the show. The 9" high surround stage did not work out so we did the show from the 18" high stage. Neither did the video pan out so we did the our longest and best show yet without video: 64:37 minutes; 68 minutes including Roy's excellent opening and introduction. The audience of 44 laughed the entire time. I think I got around to picking on everyone. They loved it.
- After the show I sold some shirts, a picture (rare occurrence), an album #1 and got this new fan who helped me with the set-up and tear-down:
Jordan Asher; Chatanooga, TN; VFW Post#4848; 5/20/21
- Roy enthusiastically said I could use him for a recommendation.
- Got to bed at 12:02am
Fri May 21 = I didn't get up until a little after 10 this morning.
Before leaving Chattanooga I checked the forecast and washed my van. I found an automatic touchless car wash that had almost everything for $4:
fresh water undercarriage rinse
L-arm that washed the front, the top and the back
spot free rinse that worked well
no air drying system so I dried the important parts by hand
- In my clean van I drove to the
VFW Post#2108 Johnson City, TN. There I met some really good people, hung out in my office at one end of a table during their Karaoke.
- I had difficulty connecting to the Internet with my
XPS
Dell XPS-13 laptop computer with 13.3" touch screen, 60WHr Integrated Battery, Windows 10, Intel 7th Generation Core i7 CPU, 16gb memory and 1TB SSD
so updated my blog by tethering with my Pixel 4a cell phone.
- Got to bed at 12:01 by their south dumpster where I figured it would be in the shade of some trees in the morning. It was!
Sat May 22 = My night spot was so quiet that I could hear a distant train and the faint sound of a dog doing a little barking. All in all, I had a good night.
- This morning I analyzed the shade and found an even better spot for morning shade just north of the north dumpster.
- As opposed to Gold's Gym in Chattanooga, I had to make some adjustments at a Johnson City Planet Fitness. I could not wear my string tank top to workout and their locker room did not smell like a locker room.
- I was so proud of the brilliant idea I came up with last night... or maybe it was a stupid one. Implementing it started by my sorting my dirty socks and continued at Lowe's. 1) I am shipping a 43" mailing tube home to Phoenix with one of my five-foot posters in it. 2) I bought three 12-packs of socks from Walmart but am not excited to have them in the way for the rest of my trip. 3) I decided the best solution was for me to get rid of the socks by sending them to Phoenix in the mailing tube with the poster. My dirty socks were not very dirty and definitely not smelly so they would be perfect cargo, keeping all my new, clean, socks.
- At Lowe's I took the mailing tube and my socks into their sprinkler aisle and used a 4' piece of their PVC pipe to stuff the socks into the tube. What a stocking stuffer!
- Then, at the UPS Store, I spent $15 sending the mailing tube to a neighbor back in Phoenix.
- Back at the
VFW Post#2108 for the evening, some of the veterans offered to put me up in a hotel while I am in Johnson City. I declined, being perfectly happy spending the nights in my minivan in their parking lot.
- Got to bed at 11:39
Sun May 23 = I found the only Johnson City shared branch credit union (for depositing cash from my Thursday T-Shirt sales) and realized it was Sunday and they were closed.
- I also found an Aldi - such deals like 100% whole wheat bread for 98¢... and it is much closer than the nearest Walmart.
- The afternoon and evening I spent at the
VFW Post#2108 sending some booking emails, ordering a publicity kit sent to Cincinnati and organizing my next T-shirt order.
- Got to bed at 9:55 :)
Mon May 24 = This morning's trip was to the Johnson City Library for a couple hours where, among other things, I ordered 50 T-Shirts which will be delivered to Avon, NC June 4th.
- AtThe Tennessee Credit Union I deposited $240 T-Shirt cash into my Arizona credit union.
- Almost back at the post, I did some recreational shopping at Haven of Mercy thrift store where I bought none of their stacks of old used junkey stuff and then at the Half Price Bargains store where they had stacks of new junkey stuff. I bought a box of vegan high protein (21g) bars for about 70¢ per bar.
- Back at
VFW Post#2108, I worked on this blog and added a programing link to my Press Kit web page.
- My Ambient Weather WS-091-C Thermometer display has been getting dimmer
- Got to bed at 10:55. At my first pee (2:23am) I decided I'd look into my Ambient Weather WS-091-C Thermometer's fading display and found that one of the AAA alkaline cells had leaked badly, so I carefully cleaned the battery compartment with a fresh water spray and a little brush, dried it as much as I could with a wash cloth and propped the unit on the top grill of my refrigerator to dry. Yes, this I did in the middle of the night.
Tue May 25 =After breakfast I walked up the steps to the post pavilion and, with no one around, I did my full show for the ants and spiders there, tweaking and taking some electronic notes. The show was 1:24 hours and the operation took 1:55 hours and yielded 5 minutes of notes on my Sony ICD-PX312 digital recorder.
- My day's trip was to Harbor Freight for AAAs for my remote thermometer's base station, to Planet Fitness gym for a short slow heavy legs workout and to Aldi for a loaf of bread.
- Back inside the post I worked in my office corner until about bedtime.
- Got to bed at 10:28
Wed May 26 = Show day: The post let me arrange the room as I wished so I arranged the tables radiating from the 6' square stage (two 6' folded-up tables laid on the floor) by the south wall. I used my stage lights and Samson Expedition XP106W PA system. It started cutting out during the show. It never did that before. The video didn't work as expected. The audience of 23 enjoyed the 63-minute show, but didn't laugh real hard real often.
- Got to bed at 11:50 :()
Thu May 27 = Around noon I left Johnson City TN for Athens TN.
- In Athens I stopped by the post office to mail a couple of items and then went directly to the
VFW Post#5146. The officers were glad to see me and we hit it off well. They let me use their computer to print out 11 pages of microposters (88) for tomorrow's show. What a fun group.
- Tonight the canteen patrons were about to fall off their seats laughing at the antics of the commander, Danny Pilkey and several others, calling insults, digs and jokes across the bar.
Here's Danny & his partner, Michele Derriek
- Got to bed at 11:49 to the west of the post where there would have been some shade had it been sunny in the morning
Fri May 28 = This morning, thanks to Jim Haney the
VFW Post#5146 quartermaster, I contacted Randy Sliger the owner of WJSQ radio who will be interviewing me tomorrow morning at 9:30 :)
- This afternoon some of the post members helped to arrange their hall into a comedy club. Thanks!
- There was no sun and quite a bit of rain today.
- I went to the nearby YMCA where they found me in their national database so I did a short slow heavy torso workout.
- Got to bed at 10:42
Sat May 29 = This morning I had a neat telephone radio interview with Randy Sliger, the owner of WJSQ FM.
- This afternoon I did about 5 minutes of comedy for the boy scouts and parents selling barbecued pork out by the
VFW Post#5146 plane (Athens, GA). In the background is my van, the post with the blue roof, one of their tanks and the cherry picker they are using to repaint the plane for Memorial Day.
I bought a pound of the pork.
- This evening it was a great show for the post here in Athens, Tennessee. The post supplied the PA and lighting so all I had to set up was my cameras... didn't even need any extension cords, so it didn't take too long for me to pack everything up and get to bed in my minivan out in their parking lot :)
- Terry Huskey, the post commander, gave me a good introduction my show tonight for an audience of 58 in their hall. People were standing in the back. It was a fun show.
- A couple near the front started visiting and continued in a distracting manner after I asked them to stop, so I suggested that, since others wanted to watch the show, if they needed to visit, it would be considerate for them to do it elsewhere. They left the room and probably took care of concerns more important than watching a comedy show. After the show, Terry said that the couple was a little strange.
Tomorrow, off to the outer Banks for another radio interview merchandise signing, to meet comedian George Wagner who will open for me at a beach show, which is on my schedule at arizonalou.com.
- Got to bed at 10:34
Sun May 30 = I kept my pedal to the metal and drove the 621 miles all the way from Athens, TN to Nags Head, NC
- I spent the night in the Outer Banks Sports Club parking lot headed north into the wind.
- Got to bed at 9:31; early to get up and Phone in at 6am to Jody at Beach 104 Radio.
Mon May 31 = After all that there was no answer because Jody was off for Memorial Day.
- After getting a negative result at Dollar Tree, a drugstore and I T-Shirt shop, I drove up to Walmart and found a little $13 AM/FM headphone radio with 20 presets, a clock, timer etc. I configured it to record my appearance tomorrow morning on Beach 104 with Jody.
- In Nags Head at Staples I made 17 Comedy-n-Sunset posters, lay on the beach and did a slow heavy legs workout at the Outer Banks Sports Club Gym and spent the night in their parking lot facing west.
- Got to bed at 9:34; early to get up at 5:54 and Phone in to Jody at Beach 104 Radio.
