Weekend Events…

I had the pleasure of being the recipient of a set of two free tickets to Willie Nelson’s Friday night performance at the Fillmore in San Francisco. I had to decide who I would take with me and there were only two people I thought of, one being my Sister and the other my Mom. My Sister and I grew up listening to country artists like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and the like, so it was only natural that I’d ask her to join me. Unfortunately she was unable to attend so the next obvious choice was my Mom. So this last Friday night we left work a little early and headed off to “The City”. Much to our surprise the Friday night traffic wasn’t bad at all and we arrived at our destination about 45 minutes before the show started. They had just opened the doors 15 minutes prior and when we entered the building we discovered it was next to empty, only a few small groups of people milling about. We walked in and walked right up to the stage, or rather as close as we could get, which ended up being only about six feet away! And there we stayed until the show started.

Willie’s son Lucas opened up for him and though his style was very, shall we say, different and not to the liking of my Mother or some others standing close to us, I really did enjoy it. Then it was time for Willie to take the stage. Within seconds we went from standing about with a little room to move, to being crammed in there like sardines! But what a wonderful show! The only drawback was that I, who does not partake of the green bud, was the unlucky recipient of a contact high! There were about three sets of folks partaking and for some unknown reason all the smoke they exhaled came right in my direction!!! I kept getting light headed and nearly choked to death a few times! Haha…but the concert was wonderful and Willie smiled and pointed at people and was just such a good showman! He even smiled at me and then smiled and pointed at my Mom!!! It was so cool! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get any good pictures with my phone…even though we were so close the glare was so much that it was hard to get a good pic…but here’s one of the better ones! What fun!!!








On Saturday I went for a bike ride with a friend and her daughter. We stopped for a picnic lunch and were having a wonderful time. I was riding on ahead of the girls, listening to my Elvis on my iPod and really have a great time. There’s something about the wind in one’s face that is just so splendidly blissful! At least until I hit a patch of those stupid prickly seed pods (they fall out of trees…maple or evergreen or something). I hit those stupid seed pods and it was like hitting a patch of marbles. The front tire jerked to the left and stopped abruptly! I think I attempted to hop off the bike before it went completely down, but it happened so fast I didn’t have time and I came down hard on my left knee, then smashed down on my hands and rolled twice. It all happened so fast I don’t really remember anything except falling and thinking “I’m glad I wore my helmet” as my head hit the ground. My girlfriend filled in the blanks for me. It was crazy! As soon as I stopped rolling, I sat up to assess the damage and remember being pissed off that I’d put a hole in my pants! Upon further investigation I discovered I had some massive road rash on my knee and it had swelled up to the size of a golf ball. (It didn’t turn black and blue until several hours later!)…Anyway, we picked up the bike and I got back on it and rode another half mile or so to my other girlfriends house where I rested until my friend could come back with the car! What a mess! Fortunately there was no serious damage done. I have bruises everywhere and a very bruised and scraped up knee, but I’m okay. I do have to keep ice on my knee as the swelling still hasn’t gone completely away and it still pains me…four days later! **sigh** ah well…I suppose that’s the risk you take when you get on a bike…you ride long enough and you’ll probably fall off one of these days! Haha…I guess Saturday was my day!






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