Biggest news first. The car was broken into two nights ago. Window was shattered and they didn’t open the doors at all to prevent the alarm from going off. They got away with the stereo, some miscellaneous CDs, and my stack of shopper discount cards. A guy walking his dog later found the shopper cards and our woodside ID’s, so I got all of that back. Among the CDs was Marc Broussard’s new disc, so he is gonna be blowing up in the ghetto shortly. Kim had a CD book filled with her “chick music” that is now gone as well. Thanks! :b So we filled the police report and called the insurance. They sent a guy out and he found over $1000 in damaged pieces on the car. There are few scratches on the outside and inside of the door, but I think we can work those out our self. So after the $500 deductible and the $180 new window we should actually make a little money out of this deal. We’ll have to get a new stereo, but that shouldn’t be much more than $100. Progressive loves us…

Besides that this weekend has been great. We picked up Eric and Nick from the airport and later headed to Tomfooleries on the plaza. I think this is my favorite place on the plaza. Late night happy hour from 9 until close has $1.50 domestic pints, that’s pretty hard to beat anywhere. The food is also excellent, skillet pizzas are the greatest! So we stayed there for an hour or so, and then came back to the apartment to play darts for the rest of the night. Yesterday we had to hang out for awhile until the window was replaced, but once that was all taken care of we headed to Westport. We went to Harpos because it was a nice night out and their back deck is pretty hard to beat. There was a three piece cover band playing Coldplay as we walked in. Sounded pretty good, but then they took a break after it. We hung out there for awhile and watched two full sets from these guys. Pretty solid as far as covers go, and there was even an original song that I enjoyed. Problem now is that I cannot find out who it was. At first I thought it was local guy Ryan Patrick Imming but I don’t think he plays with a band at all. He also has covered OAR and the frontman here said they like OAR but don’t do any covers. Don’t you think you would say your bands name at least once in 3 sets of music? I know I would, and plug a website too…

Today I’ve been sitting around in my new running shoes “breaking them in.” I think we are gonna head to McGonigles in a bit to pick up some meat to grill out tonight. Our visitors are heading out tonight around 8, so I guess we should get moving…