Eric's Show Journal - posted on September 2, 2000 by

Show Journal 2000-09-02

Day 16 – I realized this morning I am out of boxer shorts and socks. I confessed this to Dave and he confessed to having the exact same problem. We found it particularly odd that we were both out of boxers and socks so we decided that either the girls are up to something or Jim is stealing them for himself and befouling them with his odor. We ate breakfast at Denny’s and went to K-Mart so Dave and I could pick up some new boxers. Going commando without a shower is a very, very bad feeling so thank goodness for the blue light special. Oh yeah, I saw a 300 pound version of myself in Denny’s today. Everyone laughed because the person looked exactly like me in the face. I was not amused and just found it to be really creepy. It was cold today and mostly overcast. We drove through a very ominous looking storm in Idaho which made you feel like the sky was caving in on you. Dave put a stink bomb in the SDS truck which was absolutely hysterical. We watched in horror as Lisa chased Dave around the parking lot hitting and kicking him yelling “I hate you Dave.” Tonight in Boise we went downtown to eat and we met two people on the street who had seen us play with All last month in Portland. Weird. It feels like the tour is just getting started and here it is the last show of the tour. Same Day Service sounded great tonight. They sounded pretty aggressive and played really tight. So tight in fact that at one point we thought it killed Lisa. We played with Napkin who was from Portland. We had never seen or heard of them before but we knew a lot of the same people … very strange. Thanks to Keith for hooking us up with the show … again. Keith is the man. That’s the 5th time he has totally set us up with a show and crowd. Amen. Since it was the last night of the tour we all splurged and got hotel rooms. No broken TV’s, no holes kicked in the wall and no mud sharks. Just a quiet evening with SDS and 800 Octane (aka – the world’s most boring band).