Installathon

Was up till 3 am copying stuff from the main PC to the Ultrabook, mostly by wifi. Woke upo at 8 with Domino on my tummy. Rolled over and went back to sleep for "an hour". Woke up at 11. Decided to try for the 2 o'clock manicure slot, which left me time to remove the giant slab of corned beef from the crock pot and slice it into freezer bag portions. It did as much shredding as slicing, which is the brisket part I really love. I heated up a piece of garlic bread, put some horseradish sauce on the plate and had a portion for brunch. Yum.

Manicure place at noon - she actually took me at 12:30, which gave me a little time at Clocktower coffee shop with the Ultrabook. It's raining, so I put it in a Fry's cloth shopping bag.

After nails were done I went to the PA Fry's and found a serviceable case for the 13.1" screen. Also found a nice sleeve, but since it was in the Apple section it was 3x what it was worth. It's not an Apple case, it just happens the fit the 13" Macbook. I'll order one online.

It has been raining all day, pretty hard at times.

I'm in the Starbucks sliver store (it's long and narrow) using the Ultrabook. Been here since 3:30, will leave by 4:30 to get home, grab the camera and my Roller Derby ticket voucher. Derby in south SJ, one of the sk8ers is a woman I met about 15 years ago when her then boyfriend was a leading man in a G&S production I directed at Stanford.

Wrong Roller Derby

Just returned from San Jose Skate, which is a helluva drive from home, in a downpour. I saw Silicon Valley vs Santa Cruz roller girls. I had paid $30 for a VIP ticket, which did get me a front row seat and pretty waitresses. The reason I was there is a long-time friend who is a roller girl advertised it on her FB page.

Here's the kicker. I had bought a ticket earlier to see Beauty & The Beast at Irvington HS in Fremont for tonight because I thought friend's roller derby was tomorrow in Redwood City. When she advertised the one for tonight, I thought it was the one she was ink, so I swapped my theater ticket for tomorrow and bought a ticket for Roller girls for today.

So I get there, and I don't see her, and the team colors are all wrong. It was a great seat, and challenging photography so not a total loss.

So the deal is I have the matinée tomorrow in Fremont, and then coffee with a friend in Mountain View, and that will last till about 6:30. The roller derby in Redwood City is over by 7, according to their FB event, which is strange because the only think I can find online says doors open at 5. To put this in perspective, a roller derby match is two 20-minute halves with a 15-minute halftime. But tomorrow may just be a scrimmage, which may be why it's not listed on the ticket site and is only $5.

I'm not a fan of the sport, but it's a real tough event to photograph.