Oct 7, 2011

I worked at Lakeside all day covering IEP meetings or, more accurately, sitting around outside the office waiting while they figured things out. That's the normal day when I take those jobs so I was expecting it. I was hoping to get out early though.

I met Christy at the park to play tennis for the first time in quite a while. We didn't play a full game, but the volleying we did was surprisingly good.

After deciding not to go to the second night of the Bayside tour in Philly, I came home, ate, and then drove myself to Atlantic City and got a ticket to see Jack's Mannequin at House of Blues from a guy that had an extra for cheap. I spent too much money on too few drinks when I got inside the place anyway.

Jack's played a great set, starting off with some new tracks and working back into the older stuff. The crowd was absolutely terrible. People were barely tapping their feet to the music, so I got sick of it and just made my way to the front after the first few songs. It was much more enjoyable up there.

Andrew explained some of the songs before playing them and thanked everyone for sticking around since Something Corporate then followed that up by playing "Me and the Moon." It was nice to get a dose of SoCo that wasn't "Konstantine" this time. They closed with "Caves," which is one of my favorite songs of theirs and he said they never play it. He ended the show in typical Andrew style, climbing on his piano enthusiastically and jumping off at the last beat.

I decided to go for a run on the boardwalk after the show because it was a beautiful night out and I had a lot of energy leftover from that mellow show. It was a good run; having some different scenery was nice.

The drive home seemed really long. Once I got back I hung out and watched some shows until very late and then went to bed.

Oct 18, 2009

Katie came over in the morning and picked me up and we got on the road to D.C. with avocado, lettuce and tomato on bagels. It was a good breakfast.

We got to our train station and took some photos while we waited for our chariot to arrive.

I took photos, anyway. Katie mostly climbed on the escalator.

We went to the Hirshorn Museum first and checked out some of the new things they have there. A lot of interesting sculpture using human form.

There was also an interesting installation in the upper part of the museum that was mainly focused on the use of color. Some of it worked for me but overall I wasn't enthralled.

After walking around the Mall for a short time we decided to find a train to take us to food.

We found an Indian restaurant that sounded good so we made our way there. With lots of walking we arrived and were the only patrons. The food was amazing though and the walls matched my shirt. We spent quite a while there and then decided we should get going.

We stopped for some really good cinnamon spice tea that warmed us on our walk back to the train and we arrived at the Sixth and I Synagogue in time to find our seats before Andrew McMahon came out to his piano. The setting was beautiful.

Andrew played a lot of new Jack's Mannequin songs as well as a bunch of old Something Corporate songs, including a really old one, "Walking By," from which the title of this blog was taken. Just a fun fact.

Ben from Something Corporate played guitar with him on a few songs and did backing vocals. They played one of his songs also which was really good. Andrew was clearly enjoying himself as was everyone else there. It was a great show, he never disappoints.

The drive home wasn't too bad, just expensive. We stopped and got some potato wedges at one point. Probably not a great idea but they were good for a little while. It wasn't as late as I thought it would be when I got home but I was ready for bed anyway.