Dave Matthews Band

We had a fantastic time at the Dave Matthews Band concert this past Saturday at Cricket Pavilion. The temperature outside was 108 degrees when we pulled into the parking lot but at least the sun was setting. Later on during the concert, the clouds rolled in and a refreshing light rain fell over the crowd. Coupled with the breeze, it felt a LOT better than it did when the concert first began. We had pretty good seats -- the first row of seats just outside of the "tin roof" covered area, so we could see well.

The biggest highlight of the evening for me was getting to watch Jeff Coffin play with Dave Matthews Band. LeRoi Moore, the original saxophone player (and one of the founding members of Dave Matthews Band) died this past Tuesday from complications due to an ATV accident back in June. Jeff Coffin stepped in to help tour with the band while LeRoi was recovering. I was thrilled to get to hear Jeff Coffin play again -- in my book, he's the best saxophone player in the world.

Now if I can only manage to catch Bela Fleck and the Flecktones sometime this decade. They're playing at the end of November in Hawaii, so I was thinking of flying down to visit family and catching the concert at the same time.

Shiny!

Will tomorrow be the day that that new Dell netbook offering shows up on their website? I'm excited to see the Dell Inspiron Mini 910, with its rumored release date of August 22nd. Ooh and a week before my birthday, hmm... 8.9" screen, 3 USB 2.0 ports, ultra small, ultra portable, ultra cute.

Of course it can't replace the Dell XPS M1710 monster machine, this one would be more of a "baby laptop" gadget. :) Only thing that will replace the Dell XPS M1710 will be an uber MacBook Pro one of these days.

Sea World San Diego

Sea World was a blast -- yes, it's taken me forever to post pics, but here they are :)

I hadn't been there since I was 12 or 13, so it was a real treat to see all the new attractions as well as the old ones that I remembered fondly (like the penguin exhibit).

Sea World Album Pics

We had a wonderful day, got crazy sunburned, and wore out by dusk. All that was left was to put the top down and just drive. We drove the coasts along Sunset Cliffs Drive, and then enjoyed a nice quiet evening in the hotel watching the fireworks on TV. Sea World had fireworks but after spending about eleven hours there, we were too zonked to stay for the show.

I got into Wrath of the Lich King's beta and have been eagerly running quests in Northrend in the evenings. The landscaping is beautiful (I'll post some screenshots soon) and the quests are pretty epic. Leveling is really slow, however. In prep for WotLK, I think just amassing coin and getting my fave toons to 70 will probably be my goal. No sense in gearing up -- just like Burning Crusades, the first few quests you do can pretty much stand up in stats next to my Season 2 and Season 3 Arena gear.