I went to a concert on a school night last night. Weird. Dani works as a Sales Engineering Manager for a telecommunications company. The sales team each month is expected to meet a quota for lines sold. When they meet the quota, they are invited to attend a “Quota Achievers” event. So far, they’ve been to two baseball games, the horse races and something else that I forget at the moment. Dani has paid my way to go to a couple of the events and they are a friggin’ blast.

Well, last night was this month’s event – Aerosmith and Kid Rock in concert at the Shoreline. It should be noted that I’m not by any means a major fan of either and probably would never have gone on my own volition. However, the tickets were super cheap, we got VIP passes for the special bar terrace area and, hey, it’s a concert.

I’m probably going to buy a Kid Rock CD during lunch or something. He was actually pretty cool! I totally dug it. And Aerosmith. Well, I know most of their songs and like all of them. They are friggin’ awesome. The coolest part about them is they set up a separate “B” stage out on the lawn. In the middle of the concert, for about five songs, everyone who bought the cheap lawn seats suddenly found themselves with front row tickets. That has got to be the coolest thing I’ve seen at a show yet. When you consider that the performers on stage look like ants from even the lowest part of the lawn, you wonder whether it’s even worth the price of admission. Well, the B stage totally made it worth it and then some.

One thing about Kid Rock/Aerosmith fans: a large number of the women could be described politely as “skanks”. It was a regular skankfest last night, which is not necessarily a bad thing when you consider that they’re the ones most likely to lift their tops during “Love in an Elevator”. Of course, then I get to go home with Dani who is anything but a skank and for that I thank my lucky stars.

So, one hell of a good night gets followed up by an exciting morning: I GOT MY NEW CAMERA!!!!!! It arrived in the mail yesterday but, since I was at work (DAMN YOU WORK!!!) I wasn’t there to pick it up. So they dropped it off at the manager’s office. This morning, I was lucky enough to catch one of the managers leaving the office as I was leaving. He let me grab the package and I carried it like a baby all the way on BART to work. I put it all together this morning and I’m just beside myself in pure joy. I can’t wait to try it out during lunch.

For the photographically inclined amongst you, it’s a Fuji FinePix S602. I’ve been drooling over this thing for a few months now. It was initially about $800, but Amazon has it for $579 through one of their partners now. What with the new photo job on the side, I felt it was time to go digital in order to save money and time on film development. With 3.1 MegaPixel (6.0 with Interpolation, but it’s not terrific) I have more than enough image data to play around with. Look forward to some new additions to my photography section.