My Lonesome Self



Hitchin' A Ride

"You have to understand our past because you are our future."
-REIGN OF FIRE,
2002 motion-picture

Twenty-five years ago today:

August 26, 1986
Tuesday

Steph, my boss, gave me an ‘okay’ on my leaving early on Friday for my trip to Los Angeles. Hurrah!

I didn’t bother going to the gym tonight.
Birda called, “Hey, are you going biking tonight?”
I took a rain check. It was my first time with my lonesome self for a while.  I liked the quiet time.  I simply remained at home, evaluating bills and watched a video.

Mike Miller came by unexpectedly. He was with some gal from his Chabot College Tennis Class. I thought she was cute but she had these sleazy tie-up front pair of pants. Ironically, she knew Rachelle Davies. Yuck!

Greg Manachevitz called me, too.

Ron Leoni called me COLLECT from Kings City, California.
“Mike, you won’t believe it. I got two tickets at thirty-five dollars a snap for hitchhiking!”
“You’re kidding me!”
“No, that’s California for ya.”
I hated when he calls me collect.  I won’t hear from him too often anymore though.  After he hung up I thought of that song from the 1960's called "Hitchin' A Ride" by Vanity Fare.

I wonder if I was missed at the gym while I was away. I have to go to Anne’s aerobics class at 8:30PM tomorrow night.

I wish I had more cash.

"You can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild becaue after disaster strikes the important thing is that you MOVE ON...and, if you're like me you just keep chasing the storm."
-Veronica Mars,
2004 TV-show