First of all, let me apologize profusely for not updating this in a month.  I’ve been busy with work and haven’t really been exciting enough to warrant a blog update.  I get up in the morning, go to work all day, come home and play Oblivion all night.  Or work on Steve’s website¹.  Or generally just dawdle about until it was time for sleep.

The truth is, I’ve gotten a bit lazy over the past few months.  My job is ultimately boring and lacks any sort of energy.  I sit and push papers all day.  In a chair.  All day.  Thus, I’ve gotten fat.  And secluded.  I find myself spending a lot of time alone.  Don’t get me wrong, I like being alone, but after a while it gets grating.  Like walking down the waterfront.  Nobody walks down the waterfront alone.  You stick out like a sore thumb.

Anyway, my friends Missy and Nick came down from Tacoma for the weekend, because it’s Missy’s birthday², and I, much like Newton’s first law of motion, found myself at rest and unable to put myself into motion.  This happens a lot.  Fortunately, it was Missy’s birthday, and that was the external force needed to get me off my ass and out for the weekend.

And it turned out kind of neat.

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colin talkin to some girls

I’m not shy about my love of the Decemberists.  At one point I owned five of their t-shirts and an assortment of CDs and vinyls (some of which were all but stolen by my ex-girlfriend), and I can play almost all of their discography on guitar, and know most of the lyrics by heart.  So when the time came for them to play the Crystal Ballroom, I was excited.  Like, little girl excited.  Little girl watching the end of American Idol excited.

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