Portland

I'm so fucking happy to be out of Temecula (CA) I can't tell you.
However, the job hunting has been somewhat discouraging to say the least. The wife was hoping that her 22 years of bookstore experience would make landing a job at (The world famous) Powell's Books a cinch. To date, she has had three interviews with Powell's and no bites. I have had even less luck than her. All job applications are done online these days, so you fill out an application, and shoot it off into the void, and then hope to get a response. There are so many people looking for work right now that it's rough for someone like me, with little experience, I mean, some retail, some food service, but being a songwriter (with writer's-block no less) and an aspiring animator, prospects are not so shiny.
I did finish a song, and that's pretty impressive I guess. I'll share it with you now:

“NOW HERE I AM”

David P Cohen Jr/Vic Demise

Never gonna be what you want to be

not until you want to be you

And all the disappointment that's haunted me

isn't even close to the truth

And I don't really know when it dawned on me

maybe when I wrote this tune

The only thing that ever belonged to me... ...and that would be the moment

-and I don't even own it

Now I've gone and blown it

the moment's passing

I think of all the people I used to be

and I don't even know who I am

Guess I'm gonna be who I choose to be

Trouble is I've got no plans

Now I'm the only one that's abusing me

cause I'm the only one who can

Try to keep ahead of what used to be... ...and focus on the moment

but I can never hold it

Now I've gone and blown it

the moment's passing

and I don't want to be here now

No I- don't want to be here now

Now here I am

Better not to think about history

Shouldn't oughtta waste any time

Tomorrow is an unsolved mystery

Try to keep your mind on your mind

Nothin' more elusive than this to me

think about it now and you'll find

what a dirty mind-fuck your bliss can be... ...living in the moment

like you've never known it

Suddenly you've blown it

the moment's passed

and I don't want to be here now

No I- don't want to be here now

Now here I am

Intro/Chorus:

G#maj7-D7 G#maj7-D7

G#7 G7

Verse A:

Dm-Cm D#m-G Dm-Cm D#m-G

Dm-Cm D#m-G Dm-Cm D#m-

Verse B:

G Bm F C

G Bm F C

So, there.