Journeys of Jack Tripper

There is allegedly an inauguration today. I suppose people will be celebrating. Well, good for them.

Last night I taught my class down in Ybor then walked over to theImprov to hopefully see my friend Gabe perform on an open mic night. Mystudents managed their way through their introduction speeches and it's clear I have my hands full this semester. Let's just say I have a lotof assertive women in my class who are not impressed by my role asprofessor one bit. I guess that's a good thing, but a stretch from thefair amount of discipline I'm used to dealing with (even in theprison).

I'd not been in the Improv before, but it's a really nice place. Therest of Ybor was pretty much dead, which I guess makes sense for a"cold" Wednesday, but I rather wish there were more places busierbecause I really do want to get out down there more often.

I couldn't get into the Improv in time to see Gabe's act, though, whichsucked. I did get to see quite a few other comics, none of whom wereparticularly funny. The guy who won was particularly lame, in myopinion, all dick and fart jokes.

Oh well, I guess that's what passes for humour these days.

We were, however, treated to a free act from tomorrow's headliner,which was cool because he was excellent. Gabe and I were rolling,though, I think we laughed harder than anyone else in there. Not surewhy.

On the way home stopped off at the LAHangout to see if my friends were still up there. They were,of course. I have long ago decided to stop singing at their Wednesdaynight karaoke (last week, i had to wait through an hour and a half of "regulars" singing the same songs they sing every week, just so i could sing one johnny cash song. lame) so we played trivia and Golden Tee. i did well at the trivia part, not so well at the golden tee. Meanwhile, my eyeskept shifting to the one woman in the bar, a blonde with enormous fake... yeah. I'm talking, disproportional. She was with one of those thugboys who doesn't know how to wear his hat straight. It was almostenough to make me abandon trivia forever.

Almost.