Day #3 - 10/18/97

Early Morning

One of the advantages to being unemployed is that you finally have the time to become that entrepreneur you always knew was inside you. That's why today I'm having........A MOVING SALE!

My neighbors must think the guy who lives here is nuts. You see, I JUST moved into this rental house 3 weeks ago! (I signed the lease about 6 weeks ago, 3 days before I found out our show might be in trouble.) What could I do? My lease was up at the apartment I had been living in and I was getting ready to finally move the family up here. I had to move forward - there was no choice.

So, I slept in til 5:30am this morning (ha ha....slept in!) and ran around tacking up really tacky flourescent signs pointing the path to the rental home where the "fired DJ" is living. (I just KNOW the whole neighborhood is talking behind my back and saying things like "Yeah, that's where the fired DJ lives. No, I never saw him. Strange fellow. Slept in the afternoon. Used to slip out at 3:00am in the morning. Bizarre man.")

I fully expect a multitude of old ladies and their unshaven husbands to completely screw me out of my stuff. "What's that? $2 dollars for the car? No, the car isn't for sale. But thanks. How about any of these free CDs I got from the station. Oh, you never heard of 'The Rabid People Hater Band"? Are you kidding? Hot Band!"

Mid Afternoon

Well, the moving sale went okay....made about $110 extra bucks. (Looks like I won't have to worry about a thing, now!) In between customers this morning (or should I say THIEVES), I made arrangements to disconnect utilities and that sort of thing. I'm probably heading back to Virginia Monday. I'm looking forward to Fall there. I need to sleep for a week. I'm looking forward to making breakfast for my kids, again. I still have a beautiful home on 10 acres in the country just North of Richmond. Makes me wonder why the hell I ever considered leaving it. At some point in this business you have to face some real questions: How much are you willing to trade for the next big gig? How much do you gain, if you continue to leave everything else behind? How much money do you really need? I've made a great salary in Radio since about 1985....but I've moved around so much, left any friends I've ever made behind, put my wife and kids through hell and back and have pushed my emotional and physical limits to the brink. Is this a career....or a sentence?

More tomorrow....oh, and if you click the ad below, I get a nickle! Thanks!