An evening with Lil Wayne

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Last week I was able to attend a concert at the Rose Garden through my work. We get tickets to concerts occasionally and when this one popped up I immediately though of my brother-in-law Nick. I was able to get 4 tickets for myself, Nick, Lamont and a friend of his Miranda. Initially I was going just so Nick could attend, but actually hanging out in the sky box with a bunch of fun people having drinks made the night really fun.


The first act was Kari Hilson and Nick and Lamont were really exited to see her. Later in the show she came back on stage to sing a couple of songs with Lil Wayne.



I was really impressed by the Gym Class Heroes. They played a lot of songs that I was familiar with, but until that night I didn't really knew who they were. I made a note to check out some of their work because they put on a good show. (The guy on the left is waving a flag of some sort)



The main event of the night went a lot better than I was expecting. I am not a fan of Lil Wayne primarily because I don't like the voice synth that he uses in most of his songs. I don't have a problem with the effect from time to time, but he uses it too much for my taste. At the show there was only one song where he used that heavily, for the most part he was just singing and put on a really good show.

Daddy, I've been home a long time

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It's the week before X-mas here in Portland and a huge storm hit, bringing with it a total of about 10 inches of snow. Some areas were reporting a lot more, but people here are not used to this type of weather, so the entire town was shut down for about a week. At one time I went to the store to get some groceries and they were completely out of milk among other key amenities.

There was no school planned for the week of X-mas and the week of New Years, but this year the week before that we got his with a giant snow storm. The kids were starting to exibit signs of cabin fever as the days with Mom and Dad were adding up.

Ayden exclaims to me one day during this break, "Daddy, I've been home a long time.", obviously not used to the idea of spending so much time at home with his parents who are usually busy doing a number of things for work or for school. In the end we built a snowman, threw snowballs at each other and enjoyed our very white X-mas.

Hope all of you had a great time this holiday season, no matter what was thrown at you.

~Matt