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Fun in the photo booth, originally uploaded by mrwilloby.

This will probably be a post that is way too short to describe all the activities of the past few days.

I really should figure out a way to make my blog useful like Gary North says. For now, it is not.

I went up to see Mike Doughty on Friday night. I went to the show by myself, but drove up with Jessica. She had her own show to go to. I had a good time, didn’t talk to anyone, but that’s ok. He’s one of the most fun guys to see live because he interacts with the crowd like crazy. He let us vote on the song he was going to play, he asks us if there is anything we want to talk about, and he heckles back at the hecklers. I got to hear some of my favorite songs too, like “Rising Sign”, “Soft Serve”, and even “St. Louise is Listening”. I was also glad he played 9 out of 12 of the songs off the new record. Afterwards I bought a t-shirt and had him cross out the “Small” of where it said “Small Rock World Tour” because during the show he told us that Small Rock is dead. Now we have Medium Rock.

I got to unexpectedly hang out with Tiphereth on Saturday. It turns out that she was up in SF for a few days because she sprained her ankle and needed to recuperate. I hadn’t expected to see her for 6 months. We had a few drinks at a bar, played pool, took photo booth pictures with props from my car, sat around atop Twin Peaks with prom kids and Japanese tourists, went to the beach which was crowded with drunken teenagers, then walked around in the woods. This last activity was ill-fated. We were on a little trail, actually heading back to the car with the aim of finding something to eat at 1 in the morning, but a gopher hole landed under her foot. It just happened to be the one with the injured ankle attached to it. She said it hurt pretty badly and so I took her home. Thus the evening was unfortunately cut short. I can’t complain about it too much since the entire visit was a pleasant surprise. I just hope she didn’t hurt herself any worse. Now we return to the life of being penpals.

The highlight of today, believe it or not, was the clam chowder at Fresh Choice. It was absolutely amazing.