SinCityBlonde’s Neighborhood

July is national ice cream month! What's your favorite flavor?
Submitted by LittleWiseOne.

Top 5:
1. Pralines & Cream
2. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
3. Turtle
4. Strawberry
5. Vanilla (with lot's of extra sauces)

I successfully updated my iPhone to 2.0 this morning. I started about 4:15 AM and finished about 5:15 AM. This includes the full backup and restore and a couple of sync's after to get all my apps installed.

Everything went perfectly. Thank you Apple.

More about iPhone 2.0 later. I'm heading back to bed!

Oh, my, looks like a good reason to wait until tomorrow morning, or some off-hour tonight to do the update.

I've updated iTunes, and keep checking for that new iPhone 2.0 software. It's not available yet, from iTunes for download. Hopefully this afternoon.

The Apps look cool.

I've grabbed 4 free apps already -
NearPics
SportsTap
WHERE
ZenBe Lists

And am waiting to download -
Super Monkey Ball

Tickets to see Eddie Vedder in Milwaukee at the Riverside on August, 19 went on sale through the Tenclub today (July 9) at 3:00 PM Central Time. I clicked at 3:00 PM, not ticket link. I clicked and clicked. No link. Finally I saw the link at 3:02 PM.

"Temporarily out of stock"

I clicked again

"Temporarily out of stock"

I clicked again

"Temporarily out of stock"

and again

"Temporarily out of stock"

and again, and again, and again

"Temporarily out of stock"

I saw the "Buy" button 3 times. And twice I had to re-enter my login information, and all 4 times the tickets were gone before I got them.

There's always Ticketmaster on Friday...

 

My wife and I had a good weekend with no kids.

We spent Friday morning, and afternoon, relaxing. Then went to friends for drinks and dinner.

We spent Saturday road-tripping to Lake Geneva. Once there, we went on a boat cruise, and walked around downtown a bit. We headed from there to Summerfest and caught "Cheap Trick". It was a good show. Then we drove home and got stopped on the highway, I-94, for almost two hours, at 12:30 AM. A car/vehicle/SUV had rolled over and they had to call in med-flight and jaws-of-life. It was a scary/sobbering experience.

We spent Sunday relaxing. We watched Kill Bill 1 & 2 on regular (TNT) TV. Then went out for a great dinner at a Nepal/India/Tibet place in downtown Madison. The food was great. Then we walked around State Street, the capital, and the Terrace. It was a nice time, in spite of my complaining about all the walking. It happened to be a hot and sticky day/night.

It was great hanging around with my wife with no kids for a couple of days. We have one more day of no kids, and then it's back to the world of being parents.

We were able to discuss list our Top 5 - guitar players, vocalists, bands, concerts, albums, beers, recreational activities, intimate experiences with each other, and dinners.

...Rocks!

Mythbusters

Dirty Jobs

How it's made

Cash Cab

as Mark Twain said: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

Bring a coat or something long-sleeve and warm to keep you warm. I brought one fleece and wore it all week when I was outside.

If you forget that something warm, head to Chinatown for something inexpensive emblazoned with "San Francisco". Chinatown is an interesting place. A definite must see to just walk up and down the street to see the people and the shops and hear the sounds.

Although I'm sure there's nothing wrong with a Cable Car ride, I never took one while here. I tried to on Sunday to get to Fisherman's Wharf but it wasn't running. So I walked to the Wharf. It wasn't a bad walk but I had to walk my share of hills. The Wharf was a nice place. But it was VERY touristy. It was packed.

From the Wharf I took a bay cruise, out around the Golden Gate Bridge and out past Alcatraz Island Rock. It was a very nice trip. It was windy and cold, but worth it to see the bridge and The Rock up close.
It's an amazing city. Full of people, and shops, and restaurants, and things to do, and things to see. And the hills you see on TV, they're real. I walked them almost every day. People out here tend to be in shape.

My training was downtown. One thing I noticed, a few days after I noticed all of the people walking around, and all the restaurants, and the Starbucks on every-other corner, was the walk signals at the intersections.

They actually have jaywalk signals. There's a point in time when all the traffic stops and you are allowed, by signal, to walk diagonal across the street. It was great, I took advantage of it a couple of times.

I've been a Liz Phair fan for a few years now, not since the beginning, unfortunately. Although an ex did lend me "Exile" back in '99 and I listened to it a few times. I liked her, the ex and Liz. I got into Liz again a few years later when she released "Liz Phair".

I had heard she was re-releasing "Exile in Guyville", a sort of 15 year thing. And then when I saw she was in San Francisco at the same time as me, I knew I had to go. Unfortunately tickets were sold out.

Oh well, there's always scalpers or that person who has an extra ticket. I'd go down there and see what I could find.

I got there about an hour before the doors opened and was stopped by a gentleman on the corner. "Need tickets", the large, well-dressed black man said. He reminded me of BB King and Buddy Guy.
"yes" I said.
"70 dollars" he said.
"wow" i said, "I was looking for something less."
"how much?"
"50"
"hmm, how about we meet in the middle, 60"
"55"
"no, i can't do that" he said
And I began to walk away. He came to me and said "ok, 55".
"nah" i said "50"
"shoot, ok" he said.
I said something about the tickets being real, he assured me they were. And I paid the man. Happy to have spent $50 on some $35 ticket.

I went to Starbucks to celebrate. I needed some caffeine.

After that I headed back to where the line was to get in. I was maybe 30th in line. Looked good to me.

Shortly after 8 they started letting us in and yes, my ticket was good.

I grabbed a beer, "Fat Tire" and proceeded towards the stage. Where I stood front row, left.

That's the setlist from my vantage point. I was later able to confirm that it matched song-for-song with the original "Exile in Guyville" tracklist.

Just after 9, Liz and the band came out.

She was amazing. She sounded good and played great. She had a little fun with the audience.

She played the whole tracklist and eventually left the stage. The crowd was clapping and stomping and trying their best to get her to come back on stage. At one point I pushed myself on the edge of the stage to see the setlist, to see if there were any encores listed. I was promptly pulled down from behind and told to stay down. I apologized and followed orders. I was not about to be kicked out.

She did come out and play a couple of encores, all alone. Declaring that she hadn't practiced anything else. She was awesome and sweet and sounded wonderful.

Thanks, Liz for a great concert!