8.14.2010

Since I'm spending the last night of my vacation at home by myself, I figure this would be a good time to update the blog.

Chicago and Lollapalooza were amazing. I had an awesome time with Jimm, Dave, and Sarah. On Saturday, we went to Kuma's Corner for lunch which was awesome. All of their burgers are named after metal bands and are all very delicious. We did a lot of walking and eating. Did some drinking, but we were exhausted from the 3:30 am wake up call for the train.

Sunday was fantastic. We met up with one of Dave's friends who treated us to an excellent breakfast. I can't remember the name of the place, but they had a build your juice menu and orange flavored coffee. Lollapalooza itself was great. It was a really well organized and planned out festival. It was hot and there were a ton of people, but there were lots of places to get shade and get away from the crowd. They have really done a great job making everything pretty painless for the festival goers.

Seeing Soundgarden was phenomenal. I never thought that day would come and I savored every moment. There were plenty of moshers and crowd surfers, but it was somewhat cathartic pushing them back to the sounds of "Outshined" and "Rusty Cage". While most of the crowd favored Arcade Fire (I do really like them and do plan on catching them on tour), there is no way they could have topped the musicianship or the atmosphere that Soundgarden put on. I hope to catch them on a headlining date sometime in the near future...hopefully VERY near future.

Here is a video taken by Jeffgarden of one of my favorite performances of the evening..Mailman.

8.4.2010

Well, well, well. Looks like I didn't keep up my promise to blog. I'm going to try to blog more here since we actually have some exciting stuff going on.

Jimm is trying to get a new job. He has an interview tomorrow and had one last week. One is for an exempt job and the other if for an OCU job. He's done really well interviewing so far so I hope he can get one of them.

On Saturday, Jimm, Sarah, Dave, and I are headed up to Chicago until Monday. We're going to do some site seeing stuff on Saturday and then go to Lollapalooza on Sunday. I get to see my all time favorite band of the last 13 years - Soundgarden. I've waited for this for a very long time so I'm really excited. I'm also excited to get out of work for a week and head to the Field Museum on Monday. It's nice to have this break between summer and fall semesters in school and from work. I'm going to be super lazy the other days of my vacation.

Football season starts soon and that's always awesome. It's the best time of the year!