REGRET

"I'm funnier than I look"

I think Mark had a good point. He was pretty smart for a guy who spent so much time muddling around in the Mississippi River.

About a million years ago I met a drummer at The Cove Lounge in Roselle Park, NJ. His name was Bob and he’d been around a long time. Bob told me he’d played for years in a bunch of head-bangin’ bands down at the Jersey shore. He said he was deaf in one ear and I said, “That’s too bad.”

Bob waved his hand and said, “Hey, I’d do it all again. I had a great time.”

Bob was a cool guy. Of course, he was a cool guy who probably should’ve worn ear protection, but I understood his point.

Will you regret what you didn’t do? I’ll regret not traveling more, and not moving to New York or San Francisco back when it was still affordable. I’ll regret a few things involving women, some of them stupid things I did but mostly stupid things I didn’t do that I wish I’d done, ha-ha.

I forget which Kurt Vonnegut book has a character’s tombstone engraved with the words, “HE TRIED.”

That’s a good thing to have on your stone. I hope someone chisels it into mine.