Late Night Shenanigans. Chapter 581.

It is 1:49AM in New Orleans. I am at the Abbey, the 24-hour dive bar on Lower Decatur Street with customers’ ashes in urns above the bar. It is so dark in here. I would much rather be at Aunt Tiki’s but I am in no mood to listen to death metal.

Service is terrible.

I wish somewhere else were open.

I am not going to Checkpoint Charlie’s. I have decided to be miserable right where I am.

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

Yesterday, the high was 38 degrees. Today it will be 65. Even now, it is in the 50s. It is winter in New Orleans.

More to follow…