Drained

So I am totally drained from the past few days worth of activity.

On Friday night, a few of us drove down to Boston to celebrate my friend Jim's birthday after work. We spent ~4 hours on the road and ate at the Hilltop, which is great for steak by the way. Spent about an hour or two at the restaurant and then came home. Needless to say it was a tiring drive after a full day at work, but was fun nonetheless.

Yesterday I went to two things to support my friends and their art. I went to a book signing where my friends CS and Chase were promoting his new book, his second published work, and Chase's first published cover art and illustrations. I hung out for a little while and chatted, bought the book, got signatures, became a henchman for a little while, and then headed home to get another ticket online for the Dresden Dolls show for CS. I had already got Chase and myself one on Friday.

Anyway, after going home and resting a bit and getting another ticket, I headed to my friend's photography display at the Portland Museum of Art. I went a little early to stop in at the book signing again and see how things were going and caught about half of a chapter that CS was reading from the book. Very vivid and violent...I think I am going to like the book. :)

So after the annoying guy pestering CS with dull questions, I headed up to the Museum and met up with Charles in the Glass Gallery downstairs. I had seen much of his work before when I put his initial website up for his foundation together, but never in this format. Displayed were about ~30 of his photographs of some of the most desperate places in the world and he captured the essence and the despair of the people who live there in his photographs. It was amazing and sad at the same time. The format of the pictures was 2'x3', or so, high quality pictures with captions for each of those.

Anyway, he also had a foundation talk after the reception, where he went through the 4 countries he traveled to in the last decade (3 of them within the last 3 years). Anyway, if you are interested, go to the foundations website at: http://www.icepfund.org

Apparently I have to recover my old website info because the new webmaster decided to get rid of all the pictures and captions from the old website. Charles was not amused. In any event, there is not much there right now, but hopefully that will be corrected soon.

And today I got a table and set of chairs from my mom (who also went to the show) and brought them from her house. Damn that table was heavy.

So, after this whirlwind of activity I need to crash. I would like to sit back, have a beer and read CS's book, but I have people to call and tell them I am not going to doing anything for the rest of the day. Ugh.

I think this is the first post I actually named names and talked about things I did. I know, boring, but I guess I just had to write it down. :)

Stay tuned for more exciting posts next time...

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