Quinoa Pheonix

[fredxmertz]

 
I'm in portland for a few days this week, to help Timothy get some free time to travel back to HIS home, Berkeley.
I've arranged to play a gig at Lombard Pub with the Trio (Davy Jones Locker Combo) tonight, which is helpful to keep me from feeling low, but this arrangement of driving up to care for my Dad is wearing on me, emotionally, financially, and even physically, in that, I have to hang around my dad's house and I don't get much exercise, fresh air, or human interactions....



I've driven my Dad to Sunnyside Medical Center lots of times, but the first time I drove him there was when he had his first stroke,  the anxiety and memory of all his past shiftiness towards me came rushing back in Tuesday morning, and I'm working to kind of re-frame my thoughts from that day, 


I don't know that I can sustain this pace, I've been relieving Tim for about a week each month, since October and I am entirely out of gas. This is not just regular compassion fatigue, but my father and I have never been that close.  We've been closer, since my divorce in 2015, but he has utterly used me as the emergency contact, and being the closest relative, (i more-or-less vounteered, but I didn't know that it would be so frequent and sustained.  I've made more emergency trips from eugene to portland than i care to count or think about. and many more trips that were scheduled, and know about, but because of my 'flexible' schedule, I made the effort at the time.



The Pirate Radio show last Friday was great.  Then saturday, DJLC played at an all ages venue in Salem.   It was not well attended, but we had fun, eating chinese food and playing KLASK!

"Klask" (Watch on YouTube)

This game is funner than shit.

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[cmcmck]

There is a form of billiards that I know from my years in Belgium where the table looks an awful lot like that!