12/29/23 Austin, Texas

I moved to Austin because I felt it was the next move for me in an early comedy “career.” Covid was still going on and there wasn’t enough stage time in Chicago and Milwaukee. I could work Green Bay, Madison, and towns inbetween and make enough money to pay for my gas - even fill my tank. It was a rush. I was doing something that wasn’t work and I was getting paid for it. Just enough to drive to “not work” and punch in directly to my lunch break, eat, then punch out and go home. I think I only became a mechanic to talk shit in a shop. I could go have a lunch break in Rockford or Janesville or Milton and make $50-75 on a Tuesday. I was getting out and seeing different people and do my thing and justify doing it because I wasn’t wasting gas. And what the hell else was I going to do? I was just starting to get a taste for road comedy and I wanted to get out. I was making enough to leave and make it back.