Nutty times

I met L. immediately when I got off work last night. She is staying at J.'s house for the weekend, which is in central Houston. We went to Candelari's, a very nice pizza place owned by the uncle of a drummer friend of mine, that I have always wanted to check out AND is literally across the street from J.'s apartment! It was worth the wait. I had a big frozen peachy bellini and the 12" Chicago-style sausage pizza. I ate 3 1/2 huge slices. Later L. ordered me a big frozen strawberry daquiri with a shot of rum in it. She was drinking double southern-comforts-on-the-rocks. We had a great time!

Next, we decided to meet M. over at the Continental Club to see Beetle, my friends' Beatles cover band. The guy who runs the parking lot recognized me as G.'s friend and did not charge us for parking, which was very cool. The CC was packed for a Thursday night, but the band is awesome so no wonder. We sang along and danced and had a hoot. L., who is newly divorced as of 2 weeks ago, talked to some guys and gave out her number. Mr. B, the father of 2 musician friends of mine including one of the members of Beetle, was there and we hugged and caught up a little.

After Beetle quit playing at 10, M. said we should go to the blues jam at Dan Electro's, which is where I, in fact, became a blues musician lo these many years ago. I hadn't been there in eons so we headed over there, singing along to The Band, natch, in the car at the top of our lungs. (As we were leaving the CC in the parking lot, El JP [see his blog link at right] was arriving w/his friends! Small world.) Dan's had a pretty good crowd going there as well, and I saw several old friends which was nice. Someone put my name on the list to play (I knew they were going to do that) and I figured what the hell, and we settled in to watch some blues jammers. L. met another guy and brought him to our table. Around midnight though, after the same bassist had been up for 3 sets in a row, I decided not to wait around anymore and bade everyone goodnight, making sure L. had a ride home with a very decent guy. The jam nazi begged me not to go, and promised to get me up the next set, but he had his chance and blew it. M. had wandered away by now but I made sure to tell her goodbye before I left.

This a.m. I was pretty tired but last night was worth it. Now I've got another full weekend ahead of picking up the baby today, dinner tonight of leftover Candelari's pizza and tuna casserole that I made 2 nights ago, work tomorrow, and something fun on Sunday, either the zoo or the Chirren's Museum, spring break crowds be damned.