(How many acronyms can you find/form in this post?)

Today's been pretty chill. Had a fantastic breakfast here at the B&B, took a couple hour-long nap, then decided to fetch myself Starbucks when food nor sleep had cured the headache that'd been ailing me since last night. (Why am I using such proper lingo? Whoops, nevermind.) The pain went away once I'd downed about half of my Iced Venti Nonfat Sugar-free Vanilla Caramel Macchiato, and I realized that I hadn't had coffee in two days after drinking it almost every day since the summer started. But at $4.28 a pop, it looks like I'll be having more headaches than coffee in the future - awesome.

After that, I just sifted through my Mayer music and picked out my personal favorites (songs and shows), grabbed "nachos" from Taco Bell (which I've discovered are simply the leftover 'crumblies' of chips served with a cup of cold nacho cheese - I probably should've known, but I'm anything but a fast food connaisseur), and had a nice conversation with my stepdad about Les Paul. R.I.P. Les Paul, guitar revolutionary.

Apparently he met Les in '88 or so while on business in NYC, where Les played a weekly gig at an underground club. They reminisced about Hawaii - my stepdad grew up there and Les talked about playing shows there with Mary Ford - and my stepdad walked away with a signed black&white postcard and "chicken skin" (... the preferred reference to goosebumps in Hawaii, and one I think I'll adopt from here on out because it's cute.) A pretty cool story about an equally cool person to add to my list of things that makes me wish I were somewhere more exciting than here and/or born a little earlier.

Then I came back down to earth to talk to my roommate about cable and internet and people dropping like flies at her high school band camp and blah-dee-blah. Now, I still have my JM albums on shuffle and am looking forward to The Tonight Show, where the tallest whitest man in the world will talk with the tallest blackest man in the world -- "hyperbole? YES" -- Conan and Shaq. Should be hi-larious.

In more Battle Studies news, an MSM member in radio confirms that November 17th is a release date we can look forward to with confidence ... and in fact, the date was moved up a week just a week ago.

Good thing I already had my Dashboard "Countdown" widget configured with that date. :)