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10/5/06

Adventures on Speed, Day One

First off, thank you for all the emails I got from concerned parties, and yes, my dosage of Dexy's Midnight Runners is so low that there is little chance of me hotwiring the neighbor's Mazda, driving to Carson City and killing a hooker. I was a bit concerned about Neva's comment that Dexy is a bit harsh for a first-timer, but hey, it is a classic.

I took one 5mg tablet in the morning, and another in the afternoon, which puts me at about one-third the regular dose. Still, the feeling of gettin'-it-done euphoria is hard to miss, especially when that inkling only used to visit every three months or so. Obviously, I draw no conclusions on one day of taking the drug, but it is like the best cup of coffee you've ever had, without that horrible crash 90 minutes later. Those of you at day jobs will know what 10:50am looks like during the denouement of a breakfast latté; it may be the worst feeling in modern business. I'm beginning to wish I had Dexy during my dot-com fin de siècle.

Even if this thing only works for a few days, a few weeks, a year, a decade, I'm taking advantage of it and scooping my life into some sort of manageable cone. We leave for Houston and then London on Monday, and the only way Tessa and I are going to get the Lucyboots to England and back is to be at the top of our game. Our flight home is ten hours from the UK to Los Angeles, and unless my wife and I come up with a new comedy routine with spot-on impersonations of your favorite stars, Lucy is going to be mashing Play-Doh into my duty-free Scotch and shouting in Spanish.

This trip comes at the end of an intriguing summer in Los Angeles, and promises to be quite a spectacle. Tessa's Aunt Loraine is getting married to a Lord in the House of Lords, so we have to trade our LA SchlubWear™ for quite possibly the most formal duds we've ever worn. For those of you who have seen "Five Wives," Loraine is the gorgeous silver-haired woman holding a goblet of wine, quipping forth while her son Louie sits to one side. Just from those snippets alone, you might be able to gauge the crazy wonderfulness of this event.

Since the drama development season is basically over, we're extending our trip for a couple of weeks, so Tessa and I can see where the other grew up whilst in the United Kingdom. I was in Northern London while she was in Northern Scotland, so we're showing Lucy both. Not that she'll remember, but she'll look cute in her wellies.

I'll try to keep posting from abroad, but you know how those wily Brits can be. You may get nothing but pictures for a while. Speaking of which, I got my hair lengthened. Whaddya think?

before and after!