random thoughts

i've been thinking about cw a lot lately, though i can't get my thoughts focused. i guess it's just nostalgia, mixed with concern over the latest round of cancelled shows. (though not over the nonsense on the current incarnation of the discussion boards. egads.) i just found out via a review that the new album was recorded just over the river from here, in kingston, which serves as the nearest town with target, walmart, and other shopping conveniences. obviously i've only seen the strip of shops, but it's weird to think of it as having much more. still up in the air as to whether i'll come back up here after the week at home. C was really pushing for it, and i was considering it but hadn't committed... i was trying to be a good, responsible friend, and not take advantage of his kindness and generosity, so i told him that i wasn't sure there'd be enough for me to do here that i couldn't do from richmond. after this week, most of the things that require someone to be here, such as hookups and the gas line installation that's scheduled for tomorrow, will be done. i would still be of help to him, in the sense that if he's paying me to be here, then he can call me to run errands and look up information without worrying about whether i'm home (because i'll have to go back to waiting tables when i return), but i'm not sure that's worth what he's paying me. so today, my task happened to be entering the last couple month's receipts into their accounting software, and i realized, this man spends money like it's water! i knew that about him specific to travel, as well as expense accounts when he was practicing corporate law, but i didn't realize he was like that on a day to day basis. just in the month that i have been here, i do believe he's spent more than i made all of last year-- and i am not including any of his bills, just his daily receipts, for cabs and meals and entertainment and house supplies. granted, he's in the middle of renovating a house, starting a new job, and he has an infant daughter (and, granted, i didn't make much last year!), but still-- wow. and i didn't even count the trip he took to montreal, about which even HE noted that he'd spent a lot of money. my point is not "he's loaded so why worry"-- he's not, really, though he'll get that way eventually-- but that his concept of what things are worth is clearly so far removed from mine. too bad i think i talked him into seeing the initial point of my argument before i realized that it was faulty!