Spotted

I saw Rob Corddry the other morning at Starbucks. You may know him from various small roles in films, but most probably know him from working on The Daily Show with John Stewart.

Ouch!

On Saturday, we went to the batting cages with some friends. It was really fun. I hadn’t been for at least eight years and it really showed when I got up to bat. Mind you, I didn’t do too badly. I wasn’t able to hit as many as I might have in the past, but it was still a good time. I would really like to go back once my muscles are ready for that punishment again. Once I do it a few times more times, my body will get accustomed to it and I won’t hurt so much.

I think I thoroughly enjoyed the batting cages, because of the memories it brought back from those hot, summer days in Indiana when we would play until the sun went down. CJ & I have actually talked about joining a softball league, but I think we need to work on our hitting first.

Smoking Fun!!!!!

Friday night was an awesome night here in LA. I went to see my favorite band, The Smoking Popes, at a club in Hollywood called the Knitting Factory. This band’s heyday was in the 90’s back in Chicago. They garnered a huge following that lead to a record deal with Capitol Records in the mid 1990’s. Due to various reasons, the band broke up in 1997. Of course, it always hurts when your favorite band breaks up, because most of the time it’s permanent. Luckily, the guys decided to give it another try and re-formed last year, 10 years after they broke up. I was so excited when I heard they were re-forming. They released a new album and just finished their west coast tour. I never had the chance to see them live in their first incarnation, but I didn’t pass up the opportunity this time. As I said to Eli Caterer, (guitarist for the band and presumably the only guy who sells the band’s merchandise) “It funny how I had to move to California to see the band live”.

My co-worker, Jessica, said she would go with me after hearing a few of their songs. She ended up having a good time, and she liked the band. She was also happy because Morrissey was in attendance to watch the show. The Smoking Popes went on tour with him in the 90’s and I’m sure he wanted to see them again.

The show itself was awesome. They played their new songs and a lot of their older ones while everyone sang along. It was like an old friend came back to visit, but picked up like they had never been gone. I had a great time and I can’t wait until they make it out here again.

Hot Weekend

Last weekend we took an impromptu trip to the desert. 8-8-08 was CJ’s birthday, so we decided to take the day off and do something fun. At first we couldn’t decide what to do. Our friend Bryan said he could get us a nice room at a Westin Resort & Spa in Palm Springs for cheap. That made up our minds for us.

As you can see, it was a nice room with great amenities. We went gambling at casinos and did some shopping at the outlet mall. Unfortunately, we didn’t come back with the jackpot, but it was fun. We had triple digits temperatures while we were there, but it wasn’t too bad sine we were indoors most of the time.