A short review for tonight, perhaps a longer one in the morning, perhaps not.
Ashes Divide, eh, not a fan. They performed well, I'm just not a big fan of their music.
Saliva, great live, I might have to buy an album of theirs on my Zune this week.
Chevelle, good show live, sounded great, but not a huge fan of their music, I have one album, not likely to buy another soon.
STP, amazing, great show as always. My first concert back in 1994 was STP at Arco Arena in Sacramento. This show wasn't as flashy but still good nonetheless. I think this is my third time seeing STP, and 4th Scott, I will definitely make the trip again sometime if given the chance.
We were sitting in what amounted to the 5th or 6th row, in front of that was the "mosh" pit, but I can't say I saw any moshing today.
I shot some video on my phone, will try to upload it tomorrow if it turned out at all.
So STP is coming to town! They were the very first concert I ever went to, back in 1994 at Arco Arena with Jim. It was an amazing experience and I've seen them one other time here in St. Louis.
It looks like they will be back in town on June 8th, 2008, I'll be there for sure!
So we were awaken this morning by a 5.4 magnitude earthquake out of West Salem Illinois. Read the full blog post for a lot more information about the quake! There are quite a few comments posted as well.
Today I went downtown, near Busch Stadium. Though I paid $25 to park, I wasn't there to watch the game. I was there for our first
DotNetNuke Training class. Everything went great, the feedback from the attendees was good, and I think i successfully filled their heads with all sorts of information.
I did miss opening day, but got to see a lot of the stadium and the crowds. The training facility is literally across the street from the stadium, so we had the blinds open all day and got to take in the crowd while everyone learned.
So when I got up this morning I was disappointed to find that it hadn't snowed much over night. Lucky for me I stayed home though, by 4pm this afternoon we had 10+ inches on the ground! I spent about 45 minutes outside shoveling the driveway. I didn't do it all, but enough that I think I can get both cars in and out, and made room if the neighbors need to park at the end of the driveway.
Cardinals Opening Day March 31st, 2 Standing Room Only (probably gonna sell those)
Red Sox at Yankees 8/26 in New York, I'm definitely going to this!
Yankees at Red Sox 9/26 AND 9/28, I'm there baby! Yeah
Wow, got home from dinner tonight and the news is filled with information about Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton who apparently went nuts at Kirkwood City Hall this evening shooting 7 or more people and killing from what they say 5.
Where is Kirkwood in relationion to where I live? Not far, I actually have been to the building where the shootings occured, a few times. I used to live in Kirkwood. Our office in Des Peres is in the city that borders Kirkwood.
Nick and I are heading down to Mardi Gras tomorrow (today), should be good to get out of the house after being couped up most of the day!
Here's a small rant. Why does St. Louis have to FLIP out at the prediction of snow? The forecasters are calling for 4-6 inches, 6 inches folks, that's nothing! There is no reason to flip out that it MIGHT snow!
I'm sure everyone will clog the highways tonight trying to get home early before the snow, I'll wait it out. As long as I can get home and run at the YMCA, and then watch LOST, I'll be set.
Anyone watch the Season 3 finale last night of LOST? Amazing, I'm totally stoked about LOST again, I was starting to fade because I hadn't watched it in 9 months!
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Well we made it to Park City this afternoon. No issues, weather out of St. Louis was good, we got to the airport in plenty of time. Our flight was on time, though the 8:45 Minneapolis flight I believe left after we did, ours was scheduled for 10am.
I'm pretty sure I've never been that far north in the US except for on the east coast, so the flight out of MSP to Salt Lake City was nice, though I'm not sure where exactly we flew over. I slept most of both flights, had to make up for the 3.5 hours of sleep last night!
Philip and Sandra picked us up at the airport and brought us up into Park City. The condo is beautiful, so is the town itself. We ran over to Park City Resort and picked up our gear for tomorrow. Looks like I'll be the only one snowboarding! Hopefully I'll be typing a blog post tomorrow night, still with all my bones intact.
Checkout some of the St. Louis snow photos over on...
So I was fortunate enough to locate myself a Wii on Black Friday. I actually lucked out and found one on Amazon.com at 2am, so I purchased it. I have friends who I thought would want it. Well it ends up most of them have already decided not to get one, so instead of going to Ebay I put it up on Craigslist.
I think I have received well over 30 responses to the ad! I wish I had 30 of them to sell, though, if I did then I would have to start dealing with taxes and all that so it's probably better that I only have...
Well Friday night I picked up the Vette, so far it's great! You can see pictures of it over on www.corvettez06.org. Don't ask me how I got that domain, I'm not sure, somehow it expired in August and no one else had picked it up, I purchased it Friday morning for $6.99!
Saturday I spent the day driving the Z06 out in the rain, yes, I know, I'd probably get kicked out of a Corvette club for driving it in the rain, but lucky me, I'm not in a club! It was probably also good throttle modulation practice. I took the car over to Andy's, and took his wife for the requesit new car ride (she got a ride in the 350Z before Andy as well). Then I picked up good ole NJack (my new name for Nick Jackson) and we cruised around St. Charles for a while. From there I ran down to South County and took Russ for a ride, over to his brother Matt's and showed off the car there as well. On the way home from Russ' I stopped by the carwash and gave her a quick spray down.
Sunday morning I got up and hand bathed the car. I put two coats of wax on, Rain-X, and then headed out to Natalie's show. On the way to the show I took some pics, and then on the way home I stopped again and tried to get some cool shots as the sun was going down. I've decided, I really need to take a photography class, I take a billion photos, and 99.9% of them suck!
Now, for the rest of the week. Monday night I'm speaking at the St. Louis DotNetNuke User's Group meeting. Thursday night we (9 of us from Engage Software) are headed to the Tulsa Tech Fest in Tulsa Oklahoma. I'll be giving three presentations in Tulsa, and leading a roundtable question/answer session for DotNetNuke topics as well!
More on the presentations later this week, if I find time between writing...
The Tahoe was a great truck. It was a great price, had all the comfort one could ask for, heated seats for those of us getting older with back pains. But it just couldn't cut it on an Autocross course, so the Tahoe was replaced today, but a car much smaller, lighter, faster, and much brighter than the Tahoe. Say hello to my Little Red Corvette
More pictures at my new domain name www.corvettez06.org
More photos coming...
If you're looking for a used Corvette in St. Louis Missouri you've come to the right blog post! I'll be updating this post with used Corvette information for the St. Louis, Chesterfield, St. Charles, Wildwood and other surrounding areas in Missouri!
I am myself in the Market for a used Corvette, and live in the St. Louis...
Kind of a last minute blog post, but we're holding the July 2007 St. Louis DNN User's Group meeting tonight.
More info can be found at http://www.dnnug.com
Basics: 6:30pm 11811 Manchester Rd, Des Peres, MO 63131
Topic: Just a basic DNN round table discussion, how people are utilizing DNN, and discussion of future meeting topics.
See you there!
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So if someone were looking for a St. Louis Mercedes dealership, where would people recommend one to go? Would you go outside of St. Louis to find a good Mercedes Dealership, or are there good dealerships here in the St. Louis...
Just over a week ago a new St. Louis equestrian website went live. I built a new website for www.nottowayfarm.comCheck it out, it's built on DotNetNuke and will be a place for Nottoway Farm to host images and videos of their customers, horses and events.If you're looking for a great place for Dressage Boarding in Saint Louis check out www.nottowayfarm.com, and if you're looking for Dressage Training in St. Louis be sure to check out my wife's website at www.NatalieHammond.com
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Well, one of the 3 houses finally has power. At 9pm tonight the inlaws power came on, now we're just waiting for the house to heatup so we can go to bed. We were all set to sleep in front of the fireplace, but I'm ready for a bed over a floor tonight. Photos coming...
Well, power was the least of our worries. About 2am the house shook like a freight train hit us, one of our neighbor's trees fell on our spare bedroom, which at the time had our niece and her parents sleeping in it. We all left the house, going back in a few hours to survey the...
We spent the morning cleaning up all the leaves in the front yard. 5 hours, and 28 bags later the front yard and gutters are cleaned up.
The gutters were nice and full of crap. It's amazing how quickly leaves will degrage in a wet gutter environment. At least now they're all cleaned out for the...
If you're looking for information about Saint Louis, Missouri be sure to check out Inside Saint Louis. My latest project. More details later, I've got some plans for the site, but I'll hold off announcing too many of them until they are actually implemented!
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That's right. 9am, second chance to purchase World Series tickets. Here's to going to my second World Series in 3...
Yesterday evening we, along with a couple hundred thousand other folks, headed down to Forest Park to see the "Glow", part of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race. I've posted some of the photos in one of my Flickr...