Long Live Queen!

This past Sunday Sara and I went to our first concert at Meriweather Post Pavilion; a great outdoor venue that has been around forever.  We had lawn seats and met some friends of ours at the show.  It was a beautiful evening and we were ready to be entertained.  I haven't mention who was performing, have I?

Queen!

One of my all time favorite bands!  Queen is one of those bands that I say is part of the soundtrack of my life.  My aunt still tells stories of her young nephew singing We Will Rock You ad nauseam.  Flash Gordon was one of my favorite movies as a kid and the soundtrack was by Queen!  My dad had several Queen albums on vinyl and 8 track that I listened to all the time as a youth.  Sara and I danced to Don't Stop Me Now at our wedding!  I have been a lifelong Queen fan!

'But Freddie Mercury is dead, buddy.'

Yes, I know.  Regrettably, he was unavailable for the concert. ( What would I have given to have seen Queen play Wembley Stadium?)  So Queen took the stage with Adam Lambert, of American Idol fame, fronting the band.  He was great!  I never need to hear his original work or buy a Xmas album from him but give the boy his props - He did a helluva job! 

They opened with You're My Best Friend, and proceeded to play many, many of their hits:  Fat Bottomed Girls, Another Bites The Dust, I Want It All, Bohemian Rhapsody, and many more.  They turned Crazy Little Thing Called Love, not one of my favorites, into a jam piece lasting nearly 10 minutes.  Radio Gaga was so cool with the audiences' hands in the air clapping to the beat.  The energy was amazing and the music unbelievable.  The encore was, of course, We Will Rock You, and We Are The Champions!  Amazing!

This will go down as one of the best concerts I have ever been to, I believe.  Freddie Mercury, you were missed but we had a great time!

Five Years Later...

I blinked and here we are.  Today is my Mom's Birthday.  Five Years ago today we had her memorial service. Five Years!  Today I will celebrate her birthday by completing & submitting a script for a grant.  Later I will sit on my patio with a gin & tonic while listening to Otis Redding.

Happy Birthday, Ma! We all miss you. 

And Another One Bites The Dust!

I have the worst luck with cars!  In the past 8 years I've had 5 cars... and in a few weeks that number will be SIX cars!  Snowflake, our Subaru, is dead.  As I type I am awaiting a call from a company who has promised to pick up my 1992 Subaru Legacy, tow it away and give me some money for the lifeless hulk.  We purchased the car 2 Decembers ago for relatively cheap, and managed to squeeze over a year and a half of life out of her but last week she breathed her last breath.  I broke down on the side of the rode twice, and was told that the engine is dead.  So now we move on.  The money I get today (Hopefully) will go towards our final car payment on our Taurus, The Raffeloff, and then we can start to figure out how to buy another car.  Being a single car family is challenging in this day and age.

In other news, I have completed a rough draft of the script I was working on, and have moved on to revising said script.  It is a full length stage play that I have worked on for a few years now, but this latest incarnation of the script seems to be going pretty well.  I hope to be able to submit it later in the month.

Work is work and the weeks just fly by.  I have been back at the Annapolis store for almost 4 months now.  It's hard to believe.  I miss some of my old work friends, and am sad that people I used to see everyday are not really a part of my day to day.  On the flip side of that coin it is great to reconnect with old friends, customers, and acquaintances that I now get to see more often.  It's fun how people come and go and come again into your life.