I'm pleased to announce that I finally switched Starbucks stores.  That's right, it's time to say goodbye to my old stomping grounds on the west side.  Whatever you do, don't throw your dubs up, cuz I no longer work in West Seattle.

I am now at this spot on 12th & Columbia, on Capitol Hill, right next to Seattle U.  The best part is I don't have an hour long bus ride to work.  I can't believe I was able to handle that for 9 months.  It's just one of those things where you don't realize how bad you had it until things get better.  I kept telling myself the bus ride wasn't that bad.  It gave me a chance to read and listen to music, which is important for a musician to do.  But the truth is, I was only trying to endure the commute.

Try to think back to before you got your first cell phone.  Life is an entirely different game without a cellphone.  You have to plan everything far off in advance, but since living without a cell is all you know, it doesn't seem like a big deal.  You're conditioned to ask random strangers to use their phone and it's a given that friends can't get in touch with you.  This is all you know, so it seems fine.  But then, suddenly you get a cellphone, everything changes and you wonder how you ever lived without it.

That is what the bus ride was like.  I was so used to it that I couldn't imagine anything different.  I couldn't even fathom a short walk to work.  

Now, I'm proud to say I paid my dues.  I put up with that stupid bus, and I deserve to work only minutes away from where I live.  But the funny thing is that my overall life is still pretty much the same.  I still make coffee all day, I still get bored by my job and I just can't be content with being, as my homie 3rd Eye Bling calls me, a coffee shop MC.