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2:38 PM, Monday, October 17th, 2016:   I mean, I'd hate me at this point. How many entries of how lucky I am or how good things are can you read? Why would anyone sit online and DOCUMENT how awesome shit is for YEARS...   ...to answer that you'd have to understand how this "Journey" started. How badly I wanted to stop. And how badly I believed it would get better if I just kept going. So of course I'm not quitting now because the tables turned. I will however admit I'm part-reader here too and even I roll my eyes sometimes. Oh well, roll away...   So the Delorean gigs have clearly lessened. The goodness did bleed into 2016, but as we're nearing the end of the second half of this year it's drying up. The fact that this is October is hilarious to me. Last year was so fucked I couldn't breathe in October. This year I'll barely get past my OCTOBER TOTAL in the entirety of 2016. Granted, that's still more than anyone I know, but I need to upgrade the business model and believe it or not? I finally jumped into the virtual reality world purchasing an HTC Vive this weekend and my rig to run it all shows up on, ready for this? October 21st. Ha. The future arrives a year late. I will finally be making the flight simulator that was talked about in the article from last year. Just needed technology to catch-up! It did. Back to the story at hand...   ...so yes since the Delorean gigs are still on-going my only real stress is GETTING there. That's what people don't realize - that's the part that is so stressful. Thousands of dollars are on the line if ANYTHING goes wrong. You can only leave so early... sometimes you just have to roll the dice and hope it all works out. One of these days I will indeed lose a bunch of money on a gig because of car issues. Incredibly? It hasn't happened yet. Amazing to me. However, this was as close a call as it's ever been...   Driving 140 miles roundtrip to a homecoming dance. Going around a curve on an interchange I skid out. I regain control, all is cool... and go the remaining 45 miles of the trip. I stop and get gas and I make it to the gig, all set-up and start firing up the iPad for the Buckeye game... when I notice the tire is FLAT. Then, as you'll see from the video - it's not just flat: the tread was RIPPED OUT. Yup, that turn on the interchange blew out my tire... yet somehow I maintained enough air pressure to get to the gig. Had I gone flat a MILE before I did? I would've lost $1000. There's no room for a spare in the time machine and there's no way I could've gotten a tow to the gig in time to make the money. So, in fact, this was THE greatest way I could've possibly had a flat. Because now I get a nice comfortable ride home and the time I sit waiting for the tow truck is billable time because it's a three hour event.   That's some lucky shit right there. Then we have the event: no one could give two shits about the car because they had carnival rides on the school grounds. Huh? I believe the entire night with close to 1000 kids, only 3 or 4 took a picture of my car. ONE asked to sit in it... and it remained basically dark the entire time. So, no wear and tear... Giddy-Up. How is this a job again? OH AND THE BUCKEYES...   To top it off I get to watch the Buckeyes in HD on my iPad on the back of the Time Machine WIN THE FREAKING GAME in overtime. So badass. What an incredible game. Jesus that was close. This team scares me. So young... but are they still young after games like that? Wow.   So yeah, then the tow truck showed up at the end of the gig and I had someone to talk to for the hour and 20 minute ride home. Good shit, right? Shit I have six 100 mile tows per year... I may just set a few up because that was FAR less stressful than driving to the gigs... and if it actually SAVES me time and money? Done.   Anyway, video of the adventure...     Now back to researching this whole VR thing. I have a feeling this is gonna own me for the foreseeable future.   Adam