Lake Shore Drive

Umami had an absolutely brutal Tuesday, meetings with multiple clients with obscured personal agendas all talking at cross purposes, creating issues that they don't have to deal with, perceiving the urgency of only their own universe.  Umami's neck and shoulders seized up around lunch time and never really let up.  Which is to say, Tuesday was a day pretty much like Monday was, and like Wednesday will be.

It's funny what the mind goes to, randomly, at times like this.  For today, it's back to a song he heard on the radio in college, never before, and never since.  "Lake Shore Drive," by Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah, was a regional hit in the Chicago area, which is understandable, since it's about the expressway through Chicago.  It always seemed to be a slightly hippie-ish pop-country-rock tune, as if it was already nostalgic for the passing of the '60's, but thinking that the optimism of the era could still be recaptured.  Perhaps that's why Umami still likes it today.

With that as a soundtrack, Umami is not caring about healthy diets at the moment.  On days like today, he goes for the easy (because he doesn't want to cook) comfort food.  So this is a Tombstone Pizza (Supreme).  Oh, and a Rolling Rock!


And even this goes back to college.  The dorm area only had one place you can get anything to eat late, and the menu was only Tombstone pizzas.  Umami recalls sharing a pizza one night with his friend Patti and feeling pretty happy about the whole thing.  Not necessarily a fun night, but a happy one, and there is a difference.  Obviously was  still a student and not yet in the Real World!  Lol, should never have taken the Red Pill!  So, here the value of the food is not in the food itself . . . Umami thinks that must be more true than not. 


So it's not great food, it's not a great beer, it's not a great song.  (Umami takes that back, it is a great song!)  But they all serve their purpose . . .  Umami's chilled out, and thinking, like the song says,

"And the sunshine's fine

in the morning time

And tomorrow is another day."

Amen to that . . . Peace.