Trick or Drink

So Halloween is upon us, I had several good ideas for a costume. I was going to be a $.05 Kissin Booth, then thought I would burn my profit buying up Chapstick...so I changed my mind...however it's a secret you'll have to come out to our shows this weekend to see.

Be sure to check your candy, apples, and airplane liquor bottles to make sure they haven't been tampered with. When I was younger, we used to go "eggin" in which we'd go to the local grocery store and buy up all the eggs they had; paint our faces black, put on Camo (cause that's in such shortage in WV), and hit the mean streets. We'd crawl around, egg teachers' houses, cop cars, other eggers. Then we discovered Paint Ball Guns....wowsa...however I will leave that for another story.

So yesterday I met with a friend that I hadn't seen or talked too since August of 2008. We worked together and I changed jobs while he took on more hours and eventually went to Salt Lake city for a short time. Either way, we hooked up yesterday for lunch for the first time in 2 years. As soon as he sat down it was like we hadn’t missed a beat. That's how you know someone is a close friend, when you don’t have to talk everyday to pick up right where you left off…and I think that's awesome. Relationships are like plants...some need a lot of attention, like this plant I bought one time. I don't know what kind've plant he was, I just know he was green and his leaves stood up like spikes, so I named him Spike. Well, turns out ol' Spike needed more water than once a week (when I remembered he was out there), and ol’ Spike went to the green house in the sky. That relationship needed a little more cultivation…as compared to say…a cactus…which would not.

So friends are a lot like that, some need more than others...so here’s to friends…those like Spike and those like a Cactus...let's just remember to water them!!!

So in honor of Halloween, I'm trying to think of the most scared I've ever been...

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Let's see there was one time I went to the Liquor store and was $3 short, luckily the cashier knew me (imagine that) and spotted me until the next time; however that started out scary...
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I've been in several car/truck accidents, but those things happen so fast it's hard to be scared you either make it or you don't, and thankfully I've made it, so that don’t count...
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Honestly, and most people probably wouldn't admit this, but faithful returner to the blogging world...I will not hold anything from you...

When my now X-Wife told me she was leaving...a little over a year ago...and I was sitting on the the back patio of what was soon to be an empty apartment chain smoking cigarettes and drink hot liquor I remember thinking, "now you are truly alone...the person that loves you the most (my mother) is 1200 miles away...you came all the way down here and now you are all alone." And at that point I was really scared, probably more scared than I've been in my entire coherent life, and for about 30 seconds I thought about going home...I thought about packing everything up and driving straight to WV.


And then I thought of the "Spikes" and "Cacti" in my life. I thought of my new friends and family I had made here in Austin and surrounding areas…and as that cigarette smoke danced in the breeze with that brief stint of where fear had grabbed me, fear and doubt aka the Devil's favorite drink, after a short moment … that fear and doubt was crushed and I thought of Robert E. Lee screaming, "RETREAT HELL!!" as he drove his horse into the oncoming Northern Army.

Just as I say in Moonshine Shake, “We’ve got a long way to go, and mama I ain’t coming home!”

So, the moral of this story folks....water them plants!! Both figuratively speaking as well as literally...


Together we Fly, Together We Fall, Together we all see the Death of it all
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Wait till you see NOV 19....it's coming...22 days