I smiled just now

I performed 6 minutes of stand-up comedy tonight. It wasn't very good and I was the (something like) 15th out of 17 performers. The crowd had gone; only comics were left. It's tough to get those guys to laugh.

While browsing the web tonight, I thought of something I wanted to post. And so I came to this site and saw the two pictures of Starbuck I'd put up after he died. Despite the fact I miss him terribly every day, I smiled instead of bursting into tears. He would have liked my funny idea, too. Or, at least, he would have *pretended* to like it, just to humor me. He was a very good audience for comedy material. If his spirit is nearby, he'll be laughing when he reads this.

I saw an ad for Oxnard College in Ventura County (Southern California). I thought, "The way to get your Oxnard is to rub its belly."

Starbuck would have enjoyed the silliness. And then we would have played.