Man, I had such an amazing time. Fuck, I was touring in a bus through Europe; insane.

Much love to Armed Forces Entertainment for bringing us out and to the amazing audiences who came out to all of the shows. And a personal thanks to Adam Hunter for asking me to do this tour with him.

And as much as I'm sad that it's over, I'm thrilled to be coming home for a bit. By home I mean Florida (sorry LA). Going to spend Thanksgiving with the family for the first time in...Jesus, 12 years? Wow. And Allison is already there. So excited.

It feels good that something like this can still get me giddy.

Oh, I also had a birthday while overseas. Spent it in Munich...much thanks to Mike and Brian for taking me out that night. So hard to believe another year's gone by and I'm another yaer older. Time just seems to go by faster and faster the older I get. I don't want to say how old I am now, but let's just put it this way...I'm closer to seventy than I was last year.

I was looking at myself in the mirror today and I still see the face of a young guy; the face I had when I was in my early 20's. But then I thought about how other people must see me. Grey hair and facial hair, receding hairline (wow, I'm a hair conscious person). But seriously, how do I look to people? Do they look at me and think: "There's a guy who's middle aged" or "Man, that guy looks good for his age" or "I wonder what he looks like naked". And if you are thinking that, I look amazing.

Age really is a state of mind. I mean I still "feel" like I'm in my 20's; by that I mean mentally and emotionally. Physically, well, I'm feeling it a bit. I don't want to be paranoid about every little thing, but I also can't live in denial. I'm getting older, my body is getting older. I can either accept that and do better by it or just live like I have been and run risks.

OK, OK. Enough with the paranoid ranting.

What else? Well, I finished writing a Skippy Greene movie! So excited about that. I hadn't written a full film script in years...years. And I had tried a few times over the years, but either I lost interest or I just couldn't figure out a good enough story. With this, I sat myself down and said, "OK Flip, you know you're still creative and you had this idea for Skippy for a long time. Do it." And it took 3 months (as opposed to 3 days...seriously, I used to write full scripts over a weekend), but that was on and off. But when the dust settled, I really think I wrote something good. I've sent it to a few people (comics and otherwise) whose opinions I really respect. So far one of them has read it and gave me a really incredible review of it.

Who knows, maybe I'll see about developing it.

Jesus, I'm sick of hearing about the Obama Health Care website disaster. I don't think it's affecting me, but it's scaring the shit out of me too. Sorry for the non-sequiter; CNN is on in the terminal.

Alright, I'm going to check some email and get ready for the flight. See ya soon.

11/8/13
About to go on stage at Edeleweiss, Germany. It looks like it's going to be fun; it's basically a restaurant with a stage. It feels like a one-nighter I would do on the road, except that people are listening.

Had a horrible night last night, I couldn't get to sleep. My body was pretty adjusted, but the bed...one of most uncomfortable beds I've ever tried to sleep on. It was like sleeping on a table with a bedsheet on it. I tossed and turned from 12:30 to 7:30 AM. Finally feel asleep for an hour. Luckily our bus has bunk beds on it.

Anyway, this town is amazing; so beautiful. It's up in the Alps! Like "Sound of Music" Alps!! Got some amazing pictures.

OK, gotta get ready for the show. Later...er, Auf Wiedersehen!

11/7/13
Man I'm tired. My body is pretty much adjusted, but I'm still out of whack.

We did a show tonight in Bamberg; it was great. Probably the best show of the tour so far. No offesne to the others, this was just a more intimate venue and everyone on the show did really well. The other shows were just a little off as far as everyone's shows.

Nothing to do with the comics or the crowds, it's just sometimes audiences don't blend well with the performers and vice versa.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we're not allowed to get "dirty". There was an incident with a comic a few months ago where one high ranking official on a base was offended by a comedian's act and that sent a ripple effect down to every other comic. So now we have to keep it PG. No "fuck", no talk of sex beyond innuendo, etc. It sucks; not because I like to be dirty, but because I like to do my act...which is not dirty. And it also sucks because the people on these bases are adults and they want to hear adult humor. Again, not all dirty jokes, but to hear some adult jokes.
It's really stupid. But I'm just happy to be here, so I can't complain...even though I guess I just did.

Well I'm keeping this short, like I said, I'm tired. G'night.

11/4/13
So I guess I'm not doing this whole "blog thing" as regularly as I used to. I think that's just going to be the way it is from now on. When I feel the need/urge to do it, I'll do it...much like watching "Pregnant Women Porn". Joke.

So I'm writing from my hotel room in the Netherlands; I'm currently on a tour for the Armed Forces Entertainment with comedians Adam Hunter, Mike Sirklin & Brian Swineheart. We just got to Europe a few days ago and did our first of 8 shows(?) yesterday in Brussels, Belgium. It was really fun.

But I'll be honest, my body is still so fucked up withn it comes to sleeping. Let's see if I can retrace my steps for the last few days:

• Nov. 1 - I woke up at 4:30 am (after sleeping for about 8 hours) and arrived at the airport at around 6:00 am. Left LA at 8:30 am, connected in Philadelphia at 6:30 PM and took an 8 hour flight to Brussels, landing at around 7:30 am...didn't sleep at all on the flights.
• Nov. 2 - Well, maybe an hour or two off and on. Got to our hotel at 8:00 am and I passed out until 4:00. Then me and the comics went to downtown Brussels, had some waffles and returned to the hotel. We had a drink in the hotel bar and I went to sleep around midnight. Woke up at 2:00 am and 4:00 am and couldn't get back to sleep.
• Nov. 3 - After not sleeping I woke up and had breakfast around 10:00 am. Did some cardio in the gym and got ready for the show. We left the hotel at around 4:30 PM for our show on the base. They fed us and we started our show at 6:00. Everyone did great; great crowds and they gave us free beer. (God bless you). We got back to the hotel and they other guys went back downtown to watch some football (American), I - wanting to get myself back on schedule - stayed at the hotel. I was already a little buzzed, so I was tired, but decided to take two sleeping pills for extra measure. I passed out at 10:00 PM...woke up at 2:00 and couldn't get back to sleep.
• Nov. 4 - I tossed and turned for 5 hours. Finally, at 7:15 AM, I went downstairs to have some breakfast. After that I went back to my room around 8:00 and passed out (thank God) until 10:00. We then boarded our tour bus (seriously, a real fucking tour bus) and drove here. Everyone passed out on the bus. I really didn't sleep, but it was nice to lie down in a bed. Yes, the bus has beds. :)

Now I'm in the room typing this before I get ready for the next show which is in...2 hours.

So there you have it, life on the road with a screwed up body clock. I'm sure I'll be adjusted in another day or so, but then in a week I'll be back in the USA and will have to adjust again.

Oh well, there are worse problems to have.

Another cool thing about this tour is that I'll be celebrating my birthday on it! I believe I'll be traveling through Germany when the big day hits. So I'll be having some German lager and singing some German folk songs...or just "99 Luft Balloons".

OK, so what else is going on? Well, this summer was really slow for me (work wise) so I was starting to get a little stir crazy. I never thought that I'd miss traveling for work as much as I did. It's really become this part of me that needs to be fed, so to speak. I'm a "road dog", as we're called. And I love it. I'm sure when I have kids it will be much harder. I mean it's already difficult not having Allison with me, but she understands. She actually had a couple of kick ass shows in New York this last week.

That's also going to be tough; celebrating my birthday without Allison. But after the tour I'll be going to Florida, where she will already be, to see the family and spend Thanksgiving with them. So we can celebrate then.

OK kids, I'm going to sign off now and relax a bit before going to the show.

Again, I can't promise that I'll blog as often as I used to, but you can always listen to my Podcast to get your Flip Fix. I'm going to do a few from this tour, so look out for those soon.

Talk to you later.