6/06/03

San Angelo, Steel Penny Pub.

So I grew fairly tired of the screwdriver starter thing once it rained and I had to lay in a big puddle to start the van, so i spent the good part of the morning chasing down those pesky fusible links that like to blow, for those of you that dont know what a fusible link is, it is the elusive cousin of the fuse, you see what happens when a wire shorts out it burns up in very unpridictable ways, so to keep your car from becoming the equivilant of a Weber grill on spiffy rims, car manufacturers put in fuses, so instead of catching things on fire, a fuse simply blows, so a fusible link is basicly a fuse, the main difference is that a fuse is generally alot easier to find, where a fusible link is likley to be hidden, or just a pain in the ass to get to. Fuses live in fuse boxes, if your cigarette lighter stops working the first thing to do is check the fuse that says "cigarette lighter" or in case you happen to be wealthy enough to afford a car made in the last 5 years "power outlet", it is fairly simple, if the fuse is blown, replace it. When your starter doesent work on your Ford Club Wagon, (appropriate name huh?) you check the fuse, if the fuse is good you know that the rest of your morning will be wasted trying to find some little wire fuse thingy that was well hidden by the Ford Bunnies, which are alot like the Easter Bunny, but not as nice, you dont get greasy looking for easter eggs, but you do looking for for fusible links, you dont have to have hands of a monkey to get at your easter eggs, or lay under a ford van in a auto store parking lot listening to 50 cent blaring from a honda whose owner is inside buying flashing L.E.D. doorlocks and a fuse for the 5 million watt subwoofer he plans on getting after he pays off his all aluminum spoiler which of course makes his car look like he races every day on his way to Burger King.

So on a more tangible note, we played San Angelo tonight at the Steel Penny pub,met some wonderful poeple. They cooked us really good food, and treated us like humans, which of course is nothing like how we were treated by drunken idiots in a club a few hours later. I have to admit I think it is funny when someone walks up to the stage to leave a napkin saying anything, let alone one saying "play J. Geils' survivor", or "play I am proud to be an American for a Vet", I really like that one, "i'm proud to be an american cause atlest I know i'm free, to leave napkins for musicians who want to play a song for me, well i want to stand up next to you and talk throughout their set.