This Thursday I garnered a new year in the age market,
and got a couple of great presents.
1st one, an iphone.
I no longer have the old 1999 flip phone.
I am one with the current trends.
I can get updates instantly, send out emails where ever I am,
begin Twittering! (Which I have done! Brilliantly I might add.) @eyeswidemusic
Most important I can view porn at a moments notice.
I'm pretty sure that's why handheld computer type systems were invented.
I took an easy day on my date of birth. I went to a few of my favourite pubs to have a drink at each and met up with a few people.
Lunch at Furusato Sushi.
No idea if that's how you spell it, No actually calls it by it's name since the sign on their store is just a giant SUSHI all lit up that can be seen from the highway.
THe Bull and Barrel for a mini jug of Big Rock.
Where my friend Kathy found me tucked away in the dark corner of the bar sitting alone.
It doesn't matter that I have old man tendencies already.
Next stop Moxie's for the White Chocolate Brownie and a pint of Grasshopper.
Also Julien was playing there that night. Joined us for a drink before his second set.
Down to The Local for Steam Whistle and Muskoka Summer something Can't remember but it has a banana after taste that at first I found pleasing, now wanting nothing to do with it. Where we met a few more chums.
Not enough ladies there for them so they bolted for another venue where they could put their eyes to work.
Next a short drink break for Ribfest 2011.
Advice from Mr. Crowe.
"Don't go to Ribfest nearing the end of the evening. The will not give you the freshest of ribs.'
At quick stop in Doneliegh's where we found our friends. They had the Carlsberg girls there tonight giving out free beer.
Finish up at Kenzington's with a rye and coke and a shot of Goldschlager.
Where it was suggested but not actually said that I am a vagina for wanting such a girly shot.
I didn't want to stay out I wanted to be well rested for the 1st show of my Summer tour.
So home I went.
Before the show Gina rolls up in my ride and tells me to come look outside.
(I just seem to always write lyrical magic)
The show went well. I had a decent turn out. All the tables were filled. Sold some merch. Got some people added to the mailing list. All's well for show #1!
Did try to fit in Dave Matthews Tripping Billies into an original called Before, didn't work out so smooth, It was the first time I tried it. Just thought about it that morning. Just 23 more to go!
Again I couldn't stay out late because I had the Warrior Dash race in the early morning.
First one in Canada held in Horseshoe Valley in Ontario.
It was pretty awesome. but I didn't come out unscathed.
Warrior Dash is a 5km run in a mountainous terrain. It's held all over the world every summer.
People dress up if they want. THere were lots of different costumes, Ghostbusters, vikings, superheroes, Video Game Characters, Sexy girls, guys in full business suits, etc..
It's a fun race but also competitive. Everyone gets a plastic chip on their shoe that keeps track when you pass the start and finish line.
A clever way to get it back is that this plastic chip gets you a free beer. Who in their right mind is gonna lose that?
The race is littered with obstacles. Mud pits rope climbs a junk yard made up of cars and tires, a spiderweb of stretchy ropes, rope nets that you have to climb up. It's really quite fun.
I wasn't prepared for the hills. I thought there would be one or two. But the whole race consisted of my either going up or down a hill of varying degrees.
Early on maybe 2 KM's in I stubbed my toe on a small tree stump. Didn't think much of it until I felt it swelling in my shoe. after the race taking off my shoe my toe looked like this.
Looked up on the internet broken toe and I get images that look just like this.
So there you have it. My first broken bone.
There was also bit with this large slip and slide down a hill. As I was running up you could see people not really sliding they had no momentum. I thought run faster. jump and slide all the way down rather than push myself. Off I go landing hard on my ass. and shoot right off in to what I thought would be mud.
It was hard dirt littered with lots of stones. Get up and keep running with a few scrapes and a sore right cheek.
It did get me ahead of a few other runners.
The ending is a giant mud pit you've got to run through.
Here's a clip of me doing my best to get through.
The Start!
My dirty, dirty runners.
This is how you get clean.
I'm actually leaving for the first out of town show tomorrow in Brighton, ON. I've got some preparations to make so This may be my last blog for a while I will be updating the Facebook and twitter so check out those to see what's going on around Canada. @eyeswidemusic
-Neil
www.eyeswide.ca
