had some cake and ate it too

Steph came over friday and we grilled out and watched a little tele, before calling it an early night. Saturday while steph was out training, I went to sam's with paul and stocked up on some items. Then we went and got my old guitron, 'george' appraised, and he's aging rather gracefully I must say. Steph made some yummy bbq sandys for lunch then we headed up to the Grove for some poolside action. We took off shortly after the clouds rolled in since we had plans to meet up folks outside of chautauqua so we could poach the Cake concert. The hall there has great acoustics and they open up the side doors/panels all along the sides and back to provide natural air flow to the inside, so it's easy to listen to performances out on the lawn around the venue.

Steph prepped a nice picnic, and I had loaded up the backpack with key lights and ice packs while we waited for greg & lisa to arrive. The plan was to ride our bikes over, since there was a path of sorts not far from the Bear that connected over there. Having no sense of direction, I took the lead and led us up a hill then down, then up another one effectively blowing the 'short cut' plan. Luckily jacq & andy had arrived at our correct meeting time and saved us a nice spot in the back. During the agonizing female singer/songwriter opener, me & andy went down to the lower field and tossed some frisbee.



As the show started, it got mod chilly out. About halfway through the show, jeff et al showed up with a handle of jack and things deteriorated quickly. Then all of the sudden the show was over and the swallows of jack had caught up to me - I hopped on my bike, and promptly fell right on over onto the nice hard pavement. Never really regaining any equilibrium and covered in blood, I stumbled to and fro along, and mostly off of, the path back home while steph was kind enough to pretty much carry everything including my bike.

Sunday was 10X more casual since I was in the doghouse a bit. I made us a killer breakfast while watching some of season 3 of Weeds. We hung out with lauren & renn on pearl street for a bit, then I picked us up a pizza for dinner and we watched Atonement.