Some Kind of Mess

It seems like I get all my best ideas for little things to write about while I'm driving. I never did figure out how to play back everything I recorded on my digital voice recorder a few months back, so last week I tried using the video function of my phone. It's easy enough to play back, but it turns out that most of the things I think about don't end up nearly as clever as I thought they were when I thought them.

What I came here to say, though, is that I made a little bit of progress in that thing I was writing about earlier, you know, the one where I keep my stupid mouth shut more often. So a couple of days ago I was at the bar and some people started playing beer pong, which is a new thing for this bar. They were playing in a really boring way, switching off, and everybody standing back from the table and not talking when someone was throwing, like some weird game of golf, or maybe horseshoes. Having lost a number of games of beer pong recently, I was pretty familiar with the basic rules as well as lots of the options and house rules and such, so I was going to go over and tell them, then I pictured myself through their eyes: some douchebag they don't know walks up to them and tells them they're doing it wrong and introduces all these rules, which they will invariably discard after deciding they like their way better. I know - it's the same way I felt when I started learning the rules to ping pong after I had been playing for months. "I have to serve it where? I have to hold the ball how?" Eventually I was glad to learn how to play, but at first I thought they were just making things up so they would win. I digress. I didn't go say anything to them. I don't think they even finished their game, but at least I wasn't being a know-it-all. It's kind of lame to be proud of not being a chump, but you know, you do what you can. And, since I hadn't backed up my computer for six months when my hard drive bit the dust a couple of weeks ago, I don't have any new poems or pictures or anything to put up. So this is what you get. Also, I was starting to get kind of tired, physically, and I'm broke anyway, so I think I'll take it easy for a while.