day seven and eight: dull tool

Monday 10/7:  Oh no - I went to Costco and spent money!  My mom needed some supplement pills and also some pain relief heat wrap bandages that were on sale.  I also needed a smoke alarm for the garage.  Of course, no Costco trip goes without extra items I did not intend to buy.  I did keep the damage to a minimal and only bought chicken broth and rotisserie chicken.  But since I was out, I also ended up at Trader Joe's and Grocery Outlet and ended up buying about $30 of groceries - damn it.

Tuesday 10/8:  Locked myself home.  Spent the whole day actually trying to decide which flights to book for Chi Young for next January to fly him back to Ireland after Christmas vacation.  I realized I kinda suck at making decisions.  I am a worrywart so I am terrible at decision making.  Not because I make bad decisions, but because I fret and second guess myself way too much.  I worry about this and that.  Yeah another thing I don't like about myself - add that to the list.  After a long agonizing day in front of the computer (I did not make a decision), I did have the Fiona Apple/Blake Mills concert to go to at Zellerbach in Berkeley.  It was ticket bought I knew I would be without income for a while.  I was glad I went.  But I was irritated because I couldn't even get a decent clip or photo out of the show.  As soon as I took out my camera and started recording, the lady in back of me tapped me on the shoulder and said the camera was shining right in her eye.  Seriously lady?  Why so bitchy?  It wouldn't bother me one bit if the people in front of me were recording with their cameras.  But I put my camera away out of politeness (another thing I discovered - I am polite more than nice - they are not the same thing).  And then the ushers were also acting as Camera Nazis.  What the hell?  In this day and age, who cares if you record a show?  I mean, that's how people share now.  I agree that if you spend an entire show recording, you do take away from the experience because you are not enjoying the show live; you spend the entire time looking at your camera.  But that's on you - it's YOUR experience.  Nobody else should care, including the artist or the venue or the damn people around you.  This is not like a movie theatre.  A concert is a different experience.  Anyways, the performance I liked the most of the entire nite is that of Dull Tool.  I love that song, and thought she and Blake Mills did an awesome rendition of it.