Whoops... two months later

Well, so much for weekly updates. Work and life got in the way...

If anyone's still paying attention, my main excuse for not writing for two months would be the eighty hour work weeks, but those are history now (at least until January). It's been quite a May/June/July so far. Since pretty much all I do besides work is go to concerts, I'll write about that for a bit. Spring and summer bring more shows - and outdoor shows at that! Off the top of my head, I've seen The Decemberists @ Radio City Music Hall (unbelievable), Josh Ritter @ Central Park (great as always), Explosions in the Sky @ Central Park (1st time, quite an experience), and MGMT @ Prospect Park, Bklyn (adhering to the "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" mantra here... okay, okay, great studio artists, but the live show could use a little work). Oh yeah, and then there was that one guy, Sir Paul McCartney or something like that, pretty catchy songs, could really take off some day.

I've been to a couple Mets games here and there (sorry, still not sold on the team... holding out hope it's just the injuries), and my first Yankees game (today, actually). I must say "Yankee magic" is real. After being trained to hate the Yankees for 22 years, one game at the new Yankee Stadium had me clapping for A-Rod home runs, Jeter put-outs, and Mariano saves by the end of the game. I feel like I'm a tough sell with advertising and marketing, but at Yankee Stadium, you don't even realize you're being bombarded with it until it's too late and you've already bought into it (like 45 minutes into being there).

Maybe I'll end up being a Yankees fan after all. Texeira seems like the epitome of an old-time ball-player (and with Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock" as your at bat music, can anyone really not like you?). Jeter is just Jeter. Mariano Rivera is, in my opinion, one of the last great closers (more on that in another blog). Jorge, as rough as he had it today, is tough to dislike...

My brother and two of his friends came to stay for five days on a stop of their east coast baseball tour. We went to the Mets/Yankees Sunday Night Baseball game at Citi and they went off to Yankee Stadium while I was at the EITS concert at Central Park. Matt was here too that week, so I had four people staying in my living room for 4 nights. Aside from the one mysteriously deflating air mattress everything worked out great. I love having visitors (so anybody reading this that isn't Scott, Matt, Mom or Dad, you'd better come visit sometime!), it forces me to get out and do fun things (even when working 14 hour days).

Aside from uneventful birthday #23, the other major life event that happened in the past two months was anniversary #5 for Colleen and me. Pretty crazy to think it's been that long and to imagine where I'd be without her (probably not in New York City). We celebrated my birthday at River Cafe, (I really overuse parentheses when I want to describe something, don't I?) which is a fabulous restaurant in Brooklyn underneath the Brooklyn Bridge with an amazing Manhattan skyline view - quite the experience. We celebrated our anniversary at Walter Foods, a restaurant a few blocks from my place where I had clam chowder, filet mignon with peppercorn sauce, and a fresh peach cobbler. Any restaurant with moustached waiters, delicious cocktails, those courses, and practically playing my iPod on shuffle is a 5-star for me.

I spent a great weekend in London with my dad (separate blog to come later), and he was just here this past week. In a 24-hour span, we saw McCartney play the first concert at Citi Field, a Yankee game, and dinner at the aforementioned Walter Foods. It was quite a little weekend.

That's it for now, just checking in to say I'm still alive and I'll try to get back to blogging regularly (mostly to make sure I keep doing fun things so I have stuff to write about).