Folks,

Getting back into the groove of writing the journal has certainly been good for me. I think if I didn't have another linguistic output my ability to actually use words might go away. Why? Well, here's a typical conversation at the good old Guitar Center:

Me: Hey man, what's up?
Guy: Not much dude.
Me: Cool, dude. Looking for something?
Guy: Maybe a Gibson?
Me: Sweet.
Guy: Fucking rad, dude.
Me: Cool.
Guy: Cool.
Me: For real.
Guy: Sweet, dude.

To an outside observer it must look like two chimpanzees in valley girl human costumes. More gets communicated in grunts and "dudes" than in actual conversational language. By the end of the day I feel like the only words I know are "dude", "man", "cool", "totally" and "sweet".

I mean, don't get me wrong, I love guitars and I like it there, but sometimes I come home and have to turn on PBS just to hear people speak in complete sentences.

Sweet.