ShitOuttaLuck

I’m back. It sure is nice to be home. A four nights in a hotel room in New York by myself is about four days too many. I didn’t really know anybody or where anything was at, but it was an interesting trip to say the least.

Getting a cab was easy. The ride in was punctuated by a driver who seemed to want to intimidate me. As we pulled out of JFK, he broke into song.

“If I was god… I would kill all the men.”

That didn’t get a rise out of me, so he turned on Air America radio – I think hoping to get me riled up, but that didn’t do it either.

He got me to the hotel and that was what’s important.

The rest of the week was uneventful. I worked late every night, so I didn’t get out and see any sights, but I walked around the Chelsea neighborhood the hotel was in and discovered there wasn’t much to see there anyway.

I stayed at the Maritime Hotel, which has this total nautical theme – 4 ft porthole windows, murphy beds, dark woods and blues. It was nice enough and walking distance to where I was working. While there, I got hooked on Deadliest Catch – seemed appropriate for the room.

I came back on Friday and had a rather unpleasanto wait at JFK. Jet blue has some pretty terrible digs there. The terminal they’re in is probably as old as anything there, and it looks it. Dirty and cracked and run down. My gate was detatched from the main terminal. I had to ride a bus to get there and once you’re there, you might as well stay there. One bar and two snack bars. Waiting there was worse that waiting at Oakland. Of course, nothing is worse than Oakland’s baggage claim area in terminal 1.

So that’s my weekend in a nutshell. Nothing to brag about. I’m just glad to be home.

I’ve never been before, and I’m partly excited, and partly loathing the idea. I’ve never hired a cab. I’ve never been East of the Mississippi. I’ve never worried about whether I have enough business wear for work. Last week when I went to Washington, I actually got a lot done because I was able to concentrate of a few projects and focus on thinking through some Ideas I’ve been kicking around. I suspect there will be times like this next week too. Dunno if I’ll do any sightseeing, but if I do, I’ll post some pics to flickr when I can.

oakland to mountain view

back to oakland

to fremont

out to livermore

back to oakland

back to livermore

back to oakland

to bed.

And now I wanna listen to Squib Cakes…

WOW.

I didn’t get to celebrate much beyond a mini lemon-meringue pie dessert at work today.  Today also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday.

π = 3.14159265…. etc

I hope someday we’ll have an imaginary unit day and and Eulers number day too.  That would be radical, but irrational.

I’m with Ted on this one.

whore

Fun show tonight! Thanks to everyone who came out to represent. Also, special thanks to Ted for taping this. I hope to post highlights as soon as I figure out how to get the video from my new HD camera onto my Mac so I can then convert it into something more appropriate for our site.

I have a couple of tickets to give away for our show, happening this Sunday March 11th.

Leave me a comment below with your email address to get ‘em.

I posted this on craigslist last night.  Do you know someone that could help us find a trombone player?  Let us know!

ShitOuttaLuck (www.shitouttaluck.com) is looking for a trombonist to join us. We rehearse in Fremont and play regularly in the Bay Area. We mix our genres: Rock, Latin, Punk, Funk, Jazz, Ska… it’s all stuff we like and have fun playing.

ShitOuttaLuck is an established (since 1998) six-piece, female fronted band (seven if you’re into us), and we’re in the midst of recording our second full-length album (read: we need trombone tracks too). If you have chops, a sense of humor, and most-importantly enjoy playing music in front of an upbeat and energetic audience, PLEASE check out our sound – and contact us!!!

If you haven’t seen it, go here http://youtube.com/watch?v=UQKk3PI-DW8

I don’t get the point - which proportedly is to demonstrate GM’s commitment to quality.  Instead, I’m left thinking about all of the “real” people that they’ve had to lay off because management can’t seem to succeed in making a quality product that people want to buy.  The ad cost somewhere around $5 million to make.  I wonder how many salaries that could have covered.

Even if the point of this ad was to shock and create a buzz – which it certainly has, it does nothing positive in my mind.  I’m even less inclined to check out a GM car after watching this.  Isn’t that supposed to be the point of buying ad time on TV? 

What do you think?