Lessons Learned and other tidbits

Well, been a weird week and ups and downs

Most of my friends are not around right now and I miss them (Hi Molly one of the few actually not on vacation or MIA) – but man I miss peeps

Wednesday night I come home and find I can not access web pages.. I put a call into Comcast and they can not send a tech until Monday – I also took my computer into work and had a tech look at it who said it didn't seem to have any viruses or browser hijackers soooooo now I wait until Monday – until then I am using my sister's AOL account through dial up – whoooo that is frustrating and slow and phew I am spoiled – hehe

I caught some music this weekend at least.

Friday I went to the Somers Point Concert on the Beach series and caught Danny Eyre Band. They do covers of like the Beatles, The Guess Who, blues, funk, classic rock stuff. I've seen them before and like them. Also a teacher from school was there and we talked and stuff during the concert and that was nice.

Then tonight I went to West Wildwood's 4th of July celebration because my officemate's band Hydeaway – www.hydeawayonline.com was playing – they were very good and some of the people from work were there so it was nice. I have more music coming up hopefully, which is good as I was missing getting to music….

I saw a lot of interesting, weird and funny things during the last couple of days. And learned some lessons too –

Such as using a port a potty during the night is a very weird experience and a bit of a touchy feely thing you don't wanna have be a touchy feely experience – lol ESPECIALLY when some guy gets in to the one next to you and starts serenading his, um, well while he is going, he starts singing the song "That's Amore" complete with increasing volume when he gets to the line "When the Moon Hits Your Eye" OMG I nearly wet myself as he kept going… whew, keep certain bathroom habits to yourself when using public restrooms and never venture into outhouses at festivals where lots of drinking has occurred, in the dark….

I also found it wise to look over street vendors at little fairs. I got a set of star wars toys for little one (she loves star wars and likes playing star wars type games a lot) but I got this set for 5 bucks. Now I know they may be a collector thing but screw that – I am giving it to her when I pick her up and letting her play with it. I got me a Xena figure for 2 bucks and yes I may take her out and play with her ;-)

I also did my long walk in Atlantic City today and going up, instead of walking the boardwalk like normal, I walked Pacific Ave. which is the first street off the boardwalk. Man more lessons seeing the various people (to give you an idea, the establishments include the casinos, churches, row homes with tenants who are obviously not middle or upper class, crack recovery houses, pawn shops galore, go-go places, I passed about 10 just on that street alone, homeless people sleeping, and so on… very different look vs the boardwalk which I walked back – that was interesting too as tonight Jimmy Buffet was playing at the Boardwalk concert hall and Buffet fans were already out in force.)

It was funny – a group of guys were decked out in shark hats, California/Hawaiian type shirts and dress and one guy even had a grass skirt on over his shorts. A couple of homeless drunks, regulars I see often when I walk, were making funky comments about the guys and such… I started laughing because I know how many times people will say things about those very people – heh guess everyone finds someone to laugh at…. And go – whoa weird people :P

So lots of lessons learned (patience, good music, how to laugh, being lonely, and more)