Category: Rambling
Took a break
I finally got to have a bit of a break Sunday night, and Kris and I went and saw Jason Mraz. As Kris so deftly put it, "Before we went to the concert I liked Jason Mraz, now I love him." We had an absolutely wonderful time. The show was at the Roseland Theater downtown, a really small venue, without a bad view in the house. The music was loud and fun, and Jason is a fantastic showman.
The show started with Marcus Eaton and the Lobby, a band I never heard before, but that I tapped my foot to the entire time. I ordered their latest CD of course :). Next was Chantal Kreviazuk, who gave a less than inspiring performance. I've never wanted to boo anyone before, but I was close...
Then we finally got to Jason. His voice is so much better in person than his albums let on. He's able to hit operatic style high notes, as well as the gritty blues that just get to ya...
His band did a ton of improv, even bringing a few audience members on stage to grab the mic with them :). Needless to say, I'll be seeing Jason again the next time he's in town. Now if he was only still selling some of his older albums... I heard too many songs I didn't know, but I can't get most of them anymore....
Schneider's Iris Gardens
We went to Schneider's Iris Gardens on the May 10th, 2003, to celebrate Mother's Day with Kris' mom. We spent several hours there looking at all the wonderful flowers. Unfortunately, many of the irises weren't blooming yet, so I got lots of pansy and columbine photos :).
Some of the images are *very* large, many greater than 128k, so some of the large images may load really slow. All of these photos were taken with my Canon S230 Powershot.
Beerfest and other things
I know, I've been remiss in my posting recently. Been too busy with client and the oh-so interesting political intrigues of the Dreamweaver Newsgroup. So quite a bit has happened in the last week or three.
First, and most importantly, I went to a beerfest last weekend :). That was some damn tasty stuff. It was $1 a taste, but many of the booths poured a whole glass, so I was pretty happy :). We had an especially tasty beer from Grant's called Mandarin Hefeweizen. It actually had an orange flavor too it and was oh so yummy tasty. Now I just have to find someone that sells it. The local place down the street (hundreds of different brands there) didn't have that particular beer from Grant's, but we tried a few more tasty ones.
Other than beer, we also got to see a great blues band there, as well as catch a few songs from the Cheery Poppin Daddies, some damn good swing music.
I've also been playing a lot lately with Muse.net. It's a system for listening to the tunes on your home machine from anywhere. It is not a file-sharing service though. Makes it easy to listen to all my MP3s at work or anywhere. Pretty darn snazzy.
Also, I've decided to cancel my trip to Las Vegas for TODCON in lieu of some quality time with the missus. Instead we're going to spending some time in Northern California doing nothing but what we want to do. This will be the first real vacation either of us have had that didn't involve some type of family or family obligations. We've been married 7 years and have never had a week just to ourselves. Should be fun :).