Last night was a great night. We shot into the city for sushi in Chinatown with Ramon, Wendy, and her mom and wasted no time getting into non-stop barrage of sake bombs and food. Dinner was great and I got to learn a little Korean and gear up for our upcoming trip. We had a show to get to, but before that we had to check out the top floor karaoke space. That lead to more sake bombs and luckily, a temporarily busted karaoke set up. It went too quick so we’re gonna find ourselves back there soon enough.

Timing was perfect and we headed over to Trocadero, the best venue anywhere to see the greatest band anywhere. We generally have bi-annual appointments to go see Social Distortion, but this time around it was Mike Ness solo for the first time in 10 years (with most of Social D as his band anyway.) Holy fuck it was a good show, and if my schedule wasn’t such a nightmare I’d be on my way to NYC later this week to see it again. If the tour is coming anywhere near you, go. And in case you think the iPhone is a perfect device, the shit quaity photos below speak for themselves, it’s still a camera phone. Even with that blurred mess of a photo though, you can tell Mike Ness anywhere.

 

As the reigning queen of travel booking, Tara might have written “I’m The Denzel Washington In Training Day Of Booking Plane Tickets Online” under an alias.

 

Washington DC just sent me a souvenir photo of me driving through. It was nice of them to think of me.

 

 

You never know when you’ll need some stock market signs.

Or the blog sign.

 

We hung out with Bennett last night and I finally got to meet Leah, who didn’t greet me the way Talula did. So much fun…

 

Things are moving slow getting our team together and functional, so we swung by the first tournament of the year to watch rather than play. We’re getting antsy and ready for an ass kicking.

 

We volunteered today to help with some maintenance on a women’s homeless shelter in West Chester. We ended up doing a bunch of work around the house including painting the deck a good shade of blood red.

 

Why?