Happy Monday

Hello Internet. It's been over a week since I've been here. Not for any reason in particular. I've just been busy not being online. Last week I went to 3 concerts, 1 baseball game, and 1 trivia night. So I'll recap all of my experiences for you here.

Monday, July 28 - Turner Field. Jamie and I go to the game with Sully, Renee, and Matt Ross (who doesn't work where I work anymore, who knew?). We're playing the Cardinals. Charlie Morton is pitching. And we get our butts beat. We ended the series 1-3 against the Cards. Unfortunately we only won one game and unfortunately it was not the game I was at.

Tuesday, July 29 - Chastain Park. Jamie and I ate the most delicious HoneyBaked Turkey (I don't do ham, it's not a Jew thing, it's an I don't like ham thing) sandwiches while taking in the very grown up sounds of Mark Knopfler. We enjoyed some wine (I did) and beer (he did) and a beautiful rendition of Romeo & Juliet, which I was thinking was such a romantic song until I thought about the famous story (Shakespeare) and the lyrics to the song. Pretty song, pretty sad story.

Wednesday, July 30 - My Parents' House. I did some laundry. We ate some yummy food (chicken, mac & cheese, green beans). Played some Jeopardy. Then I went home to watch Project Runway.

Thursday, July 31 - Little 5 Points Corner Tavern. Jamie and I met some peeps to play trivia. Last week we ended up there on a Thursday just to hang and didn't know it was trivia night. When I found out, of course I had to play and by "I had to play" I mean the whole table had to play, because really trivia is more fun when I can tell other people how stupid they are for not listening to me. Oh, and it's adult trivia which means the questions can be anything from music to STD's. And the trivia dude says cuss words on the microphone, and who doesn't get a kick out of that. Anyway, we came in second place last week, and third place this week. Which is good because either way we won house cash.

Friday, August 1 - Chastain Park. It's time for another show. This time it's Hootie & the Blowfish (don't laugh). We had to get there early-ish as I had to run a meet & greet with the band. Yes, I met them. I didn't really greet them. But I did take pictures of them with about 16 attendees. We stayed for most of the show. They are a great party band. Fun rock music and a great stage presence. I get why they are still doing this after 22 years. The crowd was fun too. They were there to party, just ask the old guys behind me passing the Jager bottle.

Saturday, August 2 - Chastain Park. Yep, back again. After the city of Atlanta almost got washed away and I was just about to pull the Ark out of storage the clouds cleared and we were ready for Crosby, Stills & Nash. No Young on this tour. For being a combined age of 72,000 years old, these guys totally rocked. Their voices still sound great and they appeared to be having a blast on stage (or maybe it was the drugs they did backstage, but either way). The only thing they didn't do (or at least that I heard them not do) was Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, which was all I wanted them to do. But they did Our House, Teach Your Children was the encore, a fun version of Love The One You're With, even For What It's Worth (which always makes me think of the Sesame Street bit - if you haven't seen it, YouTube it, it's one of my fondest childhood memories and introduced me to great rock music - so thanks Sesame Street!). After that and some wine, it was time to go home.

Sunday, August 3 - 14th Street Playhouse. For some reason we're still going... I'm not sure how. Yesterday we ventured to the 14th Street Playhouse to check out Jewtopia. Which is a play. And it was actually very funny. I noticed the poster one day at Starbucks (I not being a coffee drinker was there waiting for someone, probably Margot, and thus was entertaining myself by reading the community bulletin board). It's about this dude that wants to marry a Jewish girl so he never has to make another decision again and enlists his Jewish friend to help him become a Jew. Meanwhile Mr. Non-Jew has to help Mr. Jew find a girlfriend. As my grandpa said last night "That sounds funny already." And it does. And it was, and the people in the play (a small seven person ensemble) was incredibly talented. And I'm a tough critic since I did drama for YEARS and therefore that makes me the know all on this subject.

Before I leave you today, I would like to take a moment of silence. We lost a legend yesterday. Skip Caray, this is for you.