I’m starting to switch over to a new theme I started working on in mid-June. I hadn’t done anything with it in weeks, and I figured if I didn’t make it live soon it’d end up with the rest of my unfinished projects…
So watch out for falling debris, broken links and general areas of ugliness. Hopefully I’ll finish it off one of these days 🙂
This was taken a few blocks north of Dupont Circle from the roof of my office building sans tripod using a crappy Fujifilm digital camera. Even so, it’s still kind of nifty if you disregard the funky color/perspective changes.
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It’s always refreshing to see a webhost who knows what to do with an obsolete server.
Heck, it’s refreshing to see a webhost that knows what to do period. Having switched from 1&1 to Site5 after going through bad-RAM-host-denial hell, I couldn’t be more satisfied with them. They’re even got a nice flock of Firefox users to boot! What more could you ask for? 🙂
The lake’s almost thawed and the highs for the next few weeks aren’t supposed to drop below 50F degees! Looks like Spring is on its way!
30min before Joel hit the stage. By the time he did, not a single empty seat could be found.
I just got back from the Verizon Center where Billy Joel just played an awesome concert. As you can probably tell from the above picture, I had great seats! My mother and I were literally 20ft. or so from the stage. The tickets (bought through eBay) were a real pain to get since Paypal ended up charging twice for them causing my bank to charge me $50 bucks in overdraft fees. Luckily I managed to get the second charge refunded and somehow even managed to have my bank return the $50. While incredibly inconvenient, the hassle was totally worth it to get seats as close as they were.
Joel playing Don’t Ask Me Why.
The show itself was great. Even at 56, Joel still knows how to please an audience. Playing a setlist that included some of his lesser known songs as well as the bigger hits.
Introducing Pressure prior to running to another keyboard on the right side of the stage.
One thing that really surprised me about this concert was the massive number of younger faces in the crowd. Of course the middle-aged to older group you’d expect to be there were, but the younger folks seemed to have more of a presence at this concert. It really shows that in times of crappy music, people will go off looking for alternatives. It also speaks for how timeless Joel’s music is considering his first hit came out in ’71.
I really had a great time and given a chance, would buy another ticket or two to another of his upcoming shows.