born in the wrong lifetime

this is probably the time that a person should NOT write a blog, right? probably. oh well, that's just what i'm gonna do. i'm about as tired as i could possibly be. my eyelids might as well be propped open with toothpicks. it's actually a bit muggy feeling right now in los angeles - or that just might be me sweating from drinking 3 cups of black coffee in the past 7 minutes. like i said, i'm dog tired. i sat in 3 hours of traffic today - never really commuted alllllll the way across town in rush hour traffic for any reason before, but today i had to do some random work for an unnamed music television network. while the band is recording this ep, we all take odd jobs doing whatever it is we can do to pay the bills. starving musicians. so anyways, i had to do some silly work for a tv channel. job was kinda odd, but the catering was great. here's the kicker though - while inside the place, my car got towed. i've never had my car towed in my life - until today. so of course i had to go searching for its whereabouts. but life always likes to throw a little extra at us from time to time. so here is the background to the next part - my cel phone stopped working a month ago. no big deal as it was under warranty. i got a new one sent to me. HOWEVER, it keeps shutting off and not turning back on no matter what i do. so of course, it decides to shut off at the exact moment that i realize my car is towed. i had to borrow an iphone (which i've never used before) to call all the numbers listed on the signs telling me where my car might be towed to. 4 out of 4 numbers are disconnected so i walk to the nearest towing place and no one is there to open the door. i ask around and find another garage that i hitch hike to and finally, after paying $187, i got it back with big yellow letters written on the windshield. it's a crazy world we live in when i have to pay $187 for the privilege of driving my car that costs $69 to fill up the gas tank. (i remember my first car - it was a subcompact - but i used to drive to see this girl all the time and it cost $8 to fill the tank and that lasted over a week). so anyways, forgive my random rambling. THE point i am trying to make is this - people say we are progressing. everyone says that technology and change make the world a better place. maybe that's true, but i'm just not sure. sometimes i feel like i was born in the wrong lifetime. when things were simpler were they better? medical technologies were less, but people were not stuffed full of antibiotics. there were no cell phones, but people talked more. there was no internet but there were books. tell me if i'm wrong. life just seemed simpler...

again, sorry if this made no sense. probably should have waited to post this.
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