This is where I bitch.

Yesterday was a good day. BFF Becky came into town with family, and after ditching them we did some shopping down on State Street and had a nice lunch at Mermaid Cafe. Then we hit the Charter Center Stage concert (I feel like a tool promoting them, oh well). The concert was free, at the island at the Alliant Energy Center. We saw the opener band, Sunderland, some local kids who won the Charter battle of the bands. They were fine, but like 12--one looked like a Weasley cousin. Then I went to pick up Paul from after he got out of work, grabbed exarian and we rejoined Becky to see Fritz and the Tantrums (the band Becky was most interested in). We had missed Plain White T's. Last was Panic! At the Disco. They were great, good show. It rained a bit, was cold and windy, but fun. Then we had a late night dinner at Glass Nickel.

It was great seeing Becky, we don't hang out enough.

Later today is volleyball, looking forward to it, being feeling very sluggish lately.

Congrats to Zachary Quinto for coming out, though I guess the article will be out next week. All the cool Sci-fi actors are gay these days. :)

Watching Star Trek reboot in honor of the announcement.

Also, I kinda wish I lived near Seattle.

Work is work, same as always.

Early softball tonight, so I can only work 10 hours. Hopefully that is enough.

It was way cool going to Angela's grad party on Saturday and meeting someone I've only known online till now. Very cool.

I played well in volleyball on Sunday, but other team members were having a bad day, so we lost all 3 games. No biggie. Sore today though, too much diving on my part.

I'm normally not a Kirk/Spock fan, but this icon is soooo cool, I had to grab it.

I also wanted to give a longer review of the podiobook(s) I just finished. Anyone that likes high-fantasy should listen to The Prophet of Panamindorah. There are three books, all free. While the summary makes it sound like it's your typical "kid falls into a fantasy world" kinda of story, it ends up being more focused on the politics and events of a war between the races. Yet with a lot of action. Very well done, and a good original world. There is enough classical fantasy elements that people can understand, but enough new races and world rules that it's interesting. A new darker more adult novel is on the way. Same world, but completely different continent and people (kinda like Mercedes Lackey's Harpers and Birdfolk). There are a few short stories too.

We got out to see Star Trek last night.

I really liked it.

( in case I'm not the last person to see it )