Most of last week I spend working and hanging out with Kate. It was a good week, except for the working all the time part. :)

On Friday, I drove up to Liam’s parents house in Poland. He drove from there over to Pittsburgh for the Howie Day, OAR, and Clarks show. Pat aka peccer rode with us over to the show as well. We got there fairly early and just hung around the place since the line was too long for us to stand in. Eventually the doors were open and we ended up just jumping in the middle of the line and being probably in the first 100 or so people to get in the place. Liam quickly grabbed a spot close to the stage and I went for something to drink because it was too hot. I chose beer of course and headed back to where Liam was. Soon enough Howie came out and played a cool show. He was in one of those moods, like saying the songs were titled different than they were (“Think Pink” and “WDVE Rocks”) It was a fun show, I just wish I could see him headline sometime. :) OAR put on a good show as well. Pretty typical setlist for the time they were given but “Someone In The Road” was played. Always good to hear that one. The Clarks went on last and I really had a hard time getting into them. They are a decent band, but nothing special I guess. The day was hot and we kept drinking to stay cool. Liam ended up getting pretty buzzed, so we opted to just stay in Pittsburgh with Jenn and Heidi. Thanks to them for helping us out!

The next day we drove back to Liam’s parents. Got ready to go back to Pitt and then we left once again. We got there even earlier this day, so we did some touristy type of things, like riding the incline up the side of the city’s hill and looking out over everything. It was pretty cool. We then got some beers and went back to the car for some tailgating. Eventually we made it to the show, Joe was pretty drunk already. Liam went to the front again, and I tried to get a SBD patch for Howie. No luck with that though. Howie’s setlist was better than the day before, but not as funny. OAR’s set was typical again, but they had very few repeats and the played “King Of The Thing” another one that is always fun. Once again I didn’t pay much attention to the Clarks, and concentrated on my drinking. :) After the show we hit up Perkins then went back to Liam’s to crash for the night.

Sunday, we all woke up and remembered we needed to get to Columbus for the Balloon festival. I drove with Liam (along with all of his shit) and Pat. Balloon fest was hot but pretty cool, minus the mullets of course. We got to see Blues Traveler and that was pretty sweet. I realized I didn’t know many songs, but they still played really well. After that was the battle of the bands. Fate Hates Us played, and they played very well. It sounded sweet there, and I have a recording of it so we’ll see how that comes out. I think that they honestly should have one, but the judges were old and like the Jazz/Funk band 30 East better. I knew it was going to happen, but at least John Popper loved the way FHU sounded. He was actually on stage and talked to the guys afterwards. Very cool.

That sums up my weekend. This week is back to work, and Kate is on vacation as well. This could be fairly boring, but I think I have some setup stuff for Pig-Fest that should keep me busy. I am very excited for this party, it should be the best yet!