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Posting on a Saturday? Dave, are you okay?

Ohh, I'm more than okay folks, I'm on the road!

The road is a place where comedians go when they want to make some money. I wish it was more lofty than that, but that's really all it is. It constitutes any place that is in the middle of nowhere, and that you wouldn't visit unless you were running from the law. It's a place of snack machines, dirty hotel rooms and getting lost on roads with no signs. It's a place where one wrong turn could lead you into the plot of any 80's horror flick.

Despite all that, I do enjoy hitting the road every so often, just to remind myself that life exists outside of New York City. I did one show last night which was sold out, about 200 people, and went pretty well. There are two more shows tonight and I'd expect them to go even better now that I've felt up the good people of Utica.

Yea, I felt them up, it's really the only good way to gauge a crowd.

Right now I'm writing this from my motel room, which has internet access, thank the good lord. It looks like a nice day out, and I can see what looks like a pool or a pond or a ditch from my window, so I think I'll go sit out there in a bit.

This morning, as I sat alone eating my eggs and having my coffee, there was a table of four people in the restaurant who kept looking at me. Finally, after about 10 minutes of weirdness, a woman in her mid-40's came up to me and said, "We were at the show last night and you were just great. We really loved you." I said, "Thanks, you guys were a lot of fun", and then continued to eat my eggs and drink my coffee. They continued to stare at me non-stop for the next 20 minutes. As the awkwardness grew I decided to pretend to make several cell phone calls so that I'd look like I was doing something important.

I can only imagine that while I did this they were thinking, "Look at the comedian, he's on the phone! He must be calling Seinfeld or his big hollywood agent!"

And that's what the road is all about: Sitting at a table alone pretending to be important while other people stare at you and wonder when you'll notice that you don't even get cell phone service in this part of town.

Now you'll have to excuse me, I'm going to lay out by the ditch.