Physical labor makes me feel better.

In the last couple of days I’ve built (from kits, of course — no room here for actual woodworking equipment) a dinette set and a kitchen cart with butcher block top for the kitchen.

After clean up and a shower I’ll head over to the art sale at the Hut which is benefitting the team.

Last note: I’ve got iTunes on and I quickly checked my Myspace just now…The mp3 of my poem “So Much Depends” syncs uncannily well with the first section of Rush’s “La Villa Strangiato.” I think there’s a message there somewhere, but I’m not sure what it is.

to declare my enduring enjoyment of the work of Damien Dempsey. His new album just entered the Irish charts at #2, and PRI’s “The World” did a feature on him last week.

Nice guy, too, if you ever get to chat with him. He still plays small clubs around the states fairly often so that shouldn’t be too hard to do. In Europe, he sells out concert halls and opens for Dylan, so catch him on the small scale here while you can.

Think Irish Billy Bragg and you’ve got the gist of it.

http://www.damiendempsey.com/s-Home

NOTE: I’ve barely been looking at the friends’ list lately, so if something’s going on I should know about, let me know.