November 6

Coldplay was great, the seats I had sucked, I was thinking they were lower level, but they were as close to being nosebleeds as you can come. I actually felt dizzy. The opening act wasn't all that great, I kind of wished I had stayed home until 8:30 instead of getting there early. My picture phone didn't really take very good pictures, but at least they came out, you can sort of see the band when they walked out into the crowd to do an acoustic song. One thing about going to concerts at Phillips Arena, why are the concessions so expensive? They had anything you could want to eat or drink if you had just won the lottery. $6.50 for a glass of wine? I can buy an entire bottle for that much. $13.50 for a single premium, which I think is like Captain & Coke or something. Good lord, I don't know how anyone can afford that.

I think Grissom and Sara are going to break up tonight on CSI, just as well. I always wanted to see Gris with Lady Heather anyway.

November 5

We did it! I knew we would win by a landslide and we did, in all 3 houses. I was extremely disappointed in California for voting in favor of discrimination, but that vote could be set aside by the Supreme Court, and the existing marriages would be "Grandfathered in" Looking at the final vote tally it was like looking at a map of the United States during the Civil War or something, they way it was divided by North & South. I was pretty upset at what a large margin Georgia lost to McCain, after standing in line to vote for almost 3 hours. I know this is the deep South and Atlanta isn't typical, but I let myself get excited when I saw all those Obama supporters in line at the courthouse. Record numbers at the polls, just like I thought.

November 4

Tomorrow is the big day, I'm going to see Coldplay! The seats aren't great, but they're lower level and better than nothing. They weren't even that expensive. Some of my co-workers had to take a personal day so they could go and vote, I am so glad I voted early. I sure wouldn't want to use up a personal day if I didn't have to. On a bright note, I am just two weeks away from getting out of the cell phone agreement from when I added a second line to my account for my former friend that ran up $225 in overage charges. It expires two weeks from today and I am back to only paying for my own line. I think I would like one of those LG Flash phones with the mirror surface, those look cool.

October 31

I love Halloween, it's one of my favorite hollidays. I don't have a costume for tonight's party at the Stagedoor, I suppose I can swing by the Party Store on the way home and buy a simple mask or maybe some surgical scrubs. Last night I voted for Obama, it took 2 and a half hours but it was worth it. I really wish I had looked over the local issues a little better before I had gone in, but I think I chose all the right ones.

October 28

Last night I decided to go to the Netherworld Haunted House off of Jimmy Carter Blvd, none of the people I talked to wanted to come with me, so I just went by myself. After standing in line for some time, I went thru the shorter house first, The Mangler with a group of young black men standing behind me in line, which was interesting because they were talking tough and trying to sound "gangster" while we were in line, of course I could tell just by looking at them that they were more middle class than I was. Anyway, as soon as we go in, I was first in line so we start taking in the haunted house which was done up to look like a crime scene. My new "gangster" friends started shrieking like a group of young girls or something, it was hilarious. One actually gripped my shoulder like a shield or something, too funny. The second house was more like a haunted museum, a much longer tour, but it was fun. As soon as I came home, I finished watching 2001 Space Oddessey by Kubrick, I'd never seen it before, it was okay.

October 21

Last night, Marcia Brady herself, Maureen McCormick did a book signing in Midtown at the Outwrite Bookstore, and I got to meet her. She was really nice, I was 130th in line so I had to wait almost 3 hours, but it was worth it. She signed my book for me and we talked about Celebrity Fit Club and what a jerk Dustin Diamond was on the show. My uncle was supposed to come with me but he no-showed. I'll have to call him tonight and see what happened. Of course tonight is poker night, so hopefully I'll make the final table like last time.

October 6

October has always been my favorite month of the year. The weather is still warm here in Atlanta, and there's less foliage to change colors like back home but it's still my favorite time of year. Riding the trains has been such an experience. One day I was sitting on the southbound when a young woman came in and launched into some spoken word. At first I thought she was just some crazy woman, but then she tells everyone her family is homeless and she's selling incense to get by, so good for her, she probably just wanted to get everyone's attention. It worked, I saw a bunch of people buying incense from her. On another occasion we were serenaded by a young R. Kelly hoping to be discovered, or at least that's what I heard him telling the friends he was riding with about his demo. No poker this week, maybe I'll go to the gym for an extra work out, since I couldn't work out all weekend due to my pulled back muscle.