I'D RATHER HAVE A HEMORRHAGE...

So it's T minus 6.5 hours until I have to deal with Canadian customs. After probably a dozen man hours of cultivating paperwork, permits, passports, visas, carnets, buffets and and duvets, I'll show up tonight and inevitably have to jump through a hoop or do some kind of stupid human trick with my hands. I don't understand why if our countries are such great allies why it's such a pain in the ass to get two buses with trailers full o' gear into the land of the moose. God, when i go to Mexico they hardly even make me take my foot off the accelerator. They're just so happy to see white folks coming to spend money they swing the gates wide open. 

We're crossing tonight at Peace Bridge near Buffalo. I've only gone in before thru International Falls and Sweetgrass (Montana). Last time I went with ML we had a keyboard player that thought it would be funny to joke about beating a murder rap while sitting in the customs office. His humor didn't really jive with anyone else. We should have left him in Canada. I hear he's doing well in his new gig.

It snowed all night and day today in Nashville. It only accumulated about an inch, but it was nice to see it falling all day. It did scare the shit out of me, though. I didn't know how long it would last and I'm pretty sure Nashville airport isn't stocked with de-icers and snow plows. The weather all over has been causing little flight delays all over, it's about to give me a rash from worry. Deep breath...let it out. Deep Breath...Hold it. 

Emmylou Harris got inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame yesterday. Good for you, Emmy. Tom T Hall and The Statler brothers made it too. I love that Statler that sings the really low parts. I swear he's the one on the Wham! record singing "Jitterbug" while George Michael sings like a ferry. And yes, I do realize I just acknowledged that I know a Wham! song. I was a child who grew up in the 80's with a teenage sister. Of course I know that song.

Boarding. Gotta run. More after the forced penetration at the border.