April 2008

• it used to be that $20 would last me for a week. I couldn’t make $20 last me through a 2 day road trip without digging for extra quarters. #
• Kansas would be more fun if I wasn’t the only one with a Twitter account. http://www.twitter.com #

• Leaving Pueblo with $120 in diesel. #
• Driving the streets of Pueblo, Colorado, enjoying Mountain Time, looking for a pair of humpback whales. #
• Pueblo’s Motel 6 left the light on for me. #

• I just found out my great aunt just passed away. #
• bouncing on the bad road between Oakley and Sharon Springs…I should have stayed on the interstate. #
• Driving to Colorado, back Tuesday night. #

Maddy and I are sitting here, alternating single-scotch with the bottles of beer, watching this girl digging Russell Lovenstein. We’re playing the Goat Bash on Saturday with a ton of beer and friends. Sunday at Bobby T’s. Here’s Lucas to see how he does with a Treo log…

Maddy here now…thinking that the goat bash and sixteen kegs of beer may have legitimate claim as a ton of beer…research to follow…

20 minutes later…

2560 lbs of beer. That’s assuming a 160 lbs keg..they range from 155 to 165, so light beer, which contains less alcohol, which weighs less than water, actually has more water..so light beer is heavier…who would have thought.

10 minutes later…

Aaron now. We just had a discussion about beer, its alcohol and sugar and what makes light beer light. We decided we don’t know, but that 16 kegs is a metric-fuck-ton of beer

Lucas: So we agreed to jointly blow it out our ass.

Aaron: My foot is asleep

Lucas:and my beer is warm.

• Watching Good Luck Chuck, digesting HuHot #
• breaking out the mower before Boston Legal tonight #

• Setting up for bobby t’s #
• Eating at Bob’s #

• eating at Mistys, admiring the bad service #
• working on the website, playing with new widgets #
• loading for the show #
• meeting maddy at Wild Wings #
• restringing guitars #

From Bobby T’s in Manhattan, Kansas, on 29 March, 2008, this video of Aaron Traffas Band playing Archipelago features Aaron Traffas, Mason Powell, Chris Goering and Lucas Maddy.

For more YouTube goodness, view this gem. Rob told me about it the other day. It’s for all you asshole racists out there. This shows how smart you sound.

• finishing up the auction #