Michael Waltrip
I made 85 Italian Combos for this guy’s racing team on Sunday. They were flying from Toledo Airport to MIS (The Michigan International Speedway) for a race… then after that, off to Bristol!
It consumed a good 6 hours of my day of rest. Rest. Yes… and then I wound up winding down and taking a ‘nap’ which lasted for 4 hours. Yep. Let it never be said that I am not usually in some kind of transitional/abnormal sleep schedule… hard as I try to be normal and all that.
I need to swim again.
I hope Michael’s team enjoyed their sandwiches. Hand-crafted, each and every bit, by myself… and a couple of other people I got to help me out. Okay, okay, I’ll give credit where credit is due:
Mike - thanks for slicing the tops off of all those peppers.
Amanda - thanks for sticking a bazillion cookies into bags.
Maureen- thanks for giving me the haircut venue tips and for slicing extra turkey butt up.
Kelly - thanks for calling people on the phone because I don’t like phones. And you have a great phone voice.
I’m going to bed.
the posthumous album
I was up really early for work today. It was a beautiful morning.
I thought of the song New Dawn Fades by Joy Division. It’s actually from their ‘debut’ album, Unknown Pleasures.
The new dawn was breaking over the trees and I took a stroll in the Swan Creek Metropark, going along the 0.6 mile flood plains loop. The woods are pretty and silent. The actual creek is kind of muddy and putrid… there are warning signs posted around telling me not to let my body come into contact with the water.
I drank coffee and walked the boardwalks. I mused about nothing in particular. New Dawn Fades is a desperately sad song. But, then again, so are all of Joy Division’s songs.
A change of speed, a change of style.
A change of scene, with no regrets,
A chance to watch, admire the distance,
Still occupied, though you forget.
Different colours, different shades,
Over each mistakes were made.
Now I am preparing to attend Audrey Mattingly’s wedding in Anderson, IN. She won’t be a Mattingly for much longer! I think I shall take a little, small nap on the ride down.
I have returned to the blog.
It’s been a long, long time since I wrote much of anything.
Whatever. Stating the obvious isn’t very worthy material to read.
I now live in Toledo, OH. I have a new(er) computer, which is really quite nice. I still work at Panera Bread. I still have daydreams and aspirations galore besides that 
I am working on a new photoblog: The Photon Diet, check it out! There are precious few photos on it, right now. But I aspire to add more with each passing day.
