The holiday season is about to start and I have no idea where the year has gone.

I have this week off, so I was planning on making the drive on Tuesday to go visit my parents for Thanksgiving. Turns out they're expecting snow Tuesday and Saturday, so it looks like I'll be staying home. I was looking forward to it since I haven't spent Thanksgiving with them for years, but, as silly as it sounds, I don't drive in snow or ice.  My car is too old and I don't have chains.

Maybe I'll finally get around to REALLY cleaning my apartment since I've got all this time on my hands now.....nah, probably not. Realistically, I will probably just watch Hulu or Netflix or something.

I went to see Squeeze last night at the Ebell Theater and, as always, they put on an amazing show. It actually wasn't the entire band, but a "Difford and Tilbrook" show, but it was still awesome. I've never been to that venue before and it's really cool.

I was fortunate enough to be able to buy a ticket from a friend of mine that turned out to be front row center, which I normally don't like, but worked out very well for this gig. There was actually an empty seat next to me for a while, so I was going to get my friend to come-up and sit there after the intermission, but some dude beat me to it. He was okay to sit next to, I guess, but he got kinda sloppy once he started drinking straight from the plastic bottle he had of either vodka or white rum (I couldn't tell which it was).  It was a booze-free show, so I'm surprised he was able to sneak it in. He also got kinda distracting when he would take pictures (he flailed his arms a bit). I know it's nice to have photos, but jeez, enjoy the show! Neil Finn once made a speech about that. People are so busy taking pictures to remember a show by that they miss the show and the only memories they have are of taking pictures. I agree wholeheartedly!!!

It was nice to see some of my old "concert" friends. I hardly ever go to shows anymore, so when I do, it's good to catch-up. It seems so long ago that I used to go see bands at least once a week.... It was a lot of fun.

My last thought before I went to sleep was the same thought I always have after Squeeze shows: "Seeing Squeeze play makes me happy".

Wow, I had a pretty scary morning.

How was it scary?  Welllll, a dude in a large black/gray truck started following me because he got angry that I didn't jump a traffic light as soon as it turned green.  Before I could even move my foot from the brake to the gas, the guy laid on his horn. He was really angry!!!

Him following me all over Pasadena went on for more than 25 minutes. The longest 25 minutes I've experienced in a while. On streets and on the freeway.  I was trying to remember where the police station was, but I was so freaked, it wouldn't come to me.  Right before I remembered and then got near the police station, I came across a huge fire truck at a traffic signal and was going to ask them for help. The scary guy in the truck bolted the other way.

It was really frightening.  I had written a lot of the details, but deleted them because I don't want to worry my friends that read this.  But I was really shaken-up.

When I got home, I looked-up what you are supposed to do if you are being followed and it turns out that you are supposed to call 911 (which I was about to do when I saw the fire truck). So remember that you guys!!!

Evading a crazy dude in a huge truck with anger issues is not the way I planned on spending my Sunday morning! I didn't even get all of my errands taken care of.