Solitary Man

Solitary Man
Originally uploaded by thegreatplotnik.

The Great Plotnik is looking forward to some time by himself when The Great Ducknik leaves for Spanish immersion school in Guatemala on Saturday. He will watch endless TV sports and eat whatever and whenever he wants to and turn up the stereo loud and read great books. He's always been a kind of solitary man.

But then the first afternoon will be over with and he'll be bored out of his mind for the next 9 1/2 days.

Plus lonesome. TGP is not afraid to admit it. As Joni Mitch-nik once said, "When you're gone these lonesome blues collide. The bed's too big, the frying pan's too wide."

So Plotnik will turn on the microphones and try to get a few songs recorded. That can take up, oh, 2, 3 days easy.

Work, another 2 days.

Packing, channel surfing, cleaning wax from his ears, pulling weeds in the garden, a few more days, and then he can fill up the rest with worrying.