ok.. haven't posted in a while but tonite was a zinger for me..


Where do I start.. well while I am in Ireland my sister in law is home watching my 11 yr old son, dog and cat.. She can be 'sorta unreliable' sometimes.. Well let me get to the point.. I bought tix to Green Day at the Verizon Center in DC for tonite cuz my son is a HUGE FAN so I bought 3 tix with the intention of my SIL taking Liam to see them tonite along with my BIL. I call home about two...

Holy crap this was one of the best shows I've ever been to! Balloons, confetti, people in animal costumes, trippy visuals, great music, happy dancing audience - what more could you wish for?

I completely forgot that because I remembered about the show too late I got a seated ticket instead of GA, so at first it felt a bit disappointing that I couldn't join the floor. Still, it was a pretty good seat compared to some other people who were only able to see one side of the stage....

Good show but not as good as the two previous times I've seen them. Which I think was mostly due to the crowd - I was in the second row from the stage and the people around me had all the liveliness and enthusiasm of corpses. Of course you try to have fun regardless but the flat crowd does make a difference. The band were on form though, Jetstream was a perfect opener and they played a good selection from the new album and their back catalogue (boo to no Satellites, yay to Kingdom of Rust). Jimi...

Saw her in concert tonight for the first time in 15 years. I went basically the moment I walked in the door from our San Francisco trip.

My friend Greg had never seen her and he wanted to go and invited me along.

It was a good show. I didn't know most of the songs because I stopped listening to her pretty much after her second album. But still she put on a great show and the audience was pretty hyped. There were a few songs I knew, "Icicle", "Cornflake...

. . .back to the here and now. . .

Anybody remember that song?

Well, I'm back from San Francisco, with sore muscles and a finish medal in my bag. I did the 26.2 miles and though it was pretty miserable, I'm glad I did it. I'll be doing a blog in a few days with the blow by blow account.

So, now, can't put it off any longer we have to face our new life in the States. It is daunting to say the least. Right now I'm working an hour and a half from where...