aw man… i wrote this 5 paragraph blog and posted it to a downed server, never to get it back. now i have to try to remember what it said. i’ll do what i can.

saturday night when we were walking along the pier area in san francisco, we passed a cigar shop, and all the hip kids who just bought cigars were standing around in front smoking them. but it wasn’t just a bunch of guys who wanted to look like mobsters or something, there were some cute girls standing there, smoking cigars with their mixed crowd of friends. i thought this was so gross and wrong. ugh. i even commented on how i would never, ever, ever hit on a girl smoking a cigar no matter how cute she was. yuck. i just don’t think that’s right.

then last night, after we get home and my girlfriend finally returns my call, she says i should come over and hang out with her and her friends janelle and dave who she’d been out to dinner with, hence the delay in calling back. i said okay. she said i could just walk over and she could drop down her keys from the balcony. i asked if they were going to be out there so she’d see me coming, and she said yeah, they’d be out on the balcony smoking the cigars they just bought. aaaaaah! i guess they stopped at a cigar store in westwood after dinner at the in-n-out there. i told her to call me after they finished with that business, which she did, and when i did come over later it smelled bad in there and just giving her a hello kiss almost made me cough. blech.

now i’m sorry if any girl who happens to read this is offended by what might be a sexist or offensive remark. but cigars are smelly and nasty when guys smoke them, and girls smoking them is just disgusting to me. yuck yuck yuck. not that i’d hate a girl just for that, but wow, it’s a turn off to the extreme. i couldn’t believe the coincidence though. night one: girls + cigars = nausea. night two: girlfriend + cigar. it was too weird. yuck. so take note ladies, don’t let me catch you with the stogies if you want to win my heart.

now it’s about 11;30 and i haven’t technically done any work yet today. not bad, huh? some may say it’s because no one has come up to me and told me what i should work on, some that it’s because i haven’t gone up to mr. bossman and asked if there was anything i should be working on… it’s all a matter of perspective. i’m thinking it might be very possible to make it all the way to lunch without doing anything but listening to music. the only productive thing i’ve really done today was finally find a good mp3 player for macs. on the advice of my pal mike, i downloaded itunes from the apple website, and it seems to be able to serve all my needs for the low low price of nothing. score.

in other news, i guess the hey mercedes cd has been pushed back to an as yet undetermined release date. aw nuts. i was hoping it’d be out before the vagrant tour hit LA, so i could get it to rev me up for the show. i guess it’s still a possibility — i’ll keep my fingers crossed. and no matter when it comes out i’m still gonna jump for joy when i get it. i’m excited. and for now at least my new rx bandits cd should come today. two of them, in fact. that’s right, captain kangaroo, if you’re reading this, you got the hook up homey. it’ll be on it’s way to you tomorrow. rock on in australia josh.