about a week ago i had coffee with wilde one and we planned to go see steve play in sydney, so i get hold of kate who say's she can't do it as she's moving to...avalon!
so i get to work, all i had to do was swap my shift, but as usual it was impossible as everyone is still away, we have no support for situations like this so part of me is already feeling desperate. i'm thinking up all sorts of ideas but as i look at the monthly roster i'm beginning to see every avenue close into a tight knot ending in my stomach. i can't do it, i let wilde one know, it turns out she can't make it and we cry into our coffee cups bitching about work, what's it all for if you can't fucking go see sk play when he plays. i'm getting really worked up, i'm tired and it's been a long laborious disappointing day, there's some stress in my system and i can't shake it. although i did buy a nice 1984 t- shirt which i fell in love with as soon as i saw it.
so on monday night i'm at work and around 8pm i stop and imagine steve playing and doing his thing, i imagine the audience and the atmosphere, the other figures in the band, the energy and funny comments he makes and stories he tells.
anyway, it was just a moment but at the same time kate texted me, 'where are you, i'm here, made it, sitting in middle.'
i'm happy one of us made it, kate reckons it was the bees knees. 
everyone who was there is raving about it in fatebook, i should feel really depressed i missed out but i feel glad everyone else can see what i see. the guys an australian legend, a true artist and we should celebrate the man while he's here, australians don't get many people like this as cultural heroes, they have sporting heroes and hollywood folk but what you have in sk is the real deal. 
so, i have now got two days to myself, i'd swap em for monday night if i could but the cards don't fall that way. 
i got the pond man coming tomorrow, pond man is a real superhero, he sort of is very practical and earthy, and knows how ponds and pumps work, he has an ecological perspective and a passion for his work that you just never see in tradespeople. i don't really understand anything he says, or does. he try's to explain it to me but i don't follow all the technical stuff, i get the big picture and try to maintain the order in the landscape with my naive skills and elementary understanding. 
i also have to visit the vet whom i promised to lend a book on ayahuscia to, he's a lovely man, gentle soul, and i think ayahuscia will come to him, he's just that type of druid. 
then its home for watching jack frost, i'll see if i can rig my speakers up to the computer and get a big sound...