So the first thing you will notice about this entry is that it is backdated. Well (shuffling feet and playing with fingers while grinning sheepishly) DAMMIT! I was too lazy to write up this post on Thursday ... some might say I wasn’t in the perfect state of mind to do so ... they don’t know me. They don’t know me! They can’t judge me ... ok now I am borderline losing it.
Well this is the "San Jose Grand Prix" weekend and about everything happening within downtown is all being marketed as "the opening act". Among the "opening acts" were this week's Music in the Park event starring the legendary Don Carlos. So me and a couple of us alums went out to the park for the concert. The atmosphere was great, the people were friendly (classic Reggae concert atmosphere) and the barley-based refreshments went down real easy in one hella classic California summer evening. We then followed this up with another performance by the Santana tribute band at the "Music in the Dark" event. The percussion performance put up by those guys was incredible - of course Santana’s guitar black magic is on another galaxy but ... another great show.
As the night was still young, we decided to move on to one of those places where they dim the lights and for some reason the lights are multicolored with music a couple of decibels higher than the norm playing, couple of screens here and there and highly distilled beverages on a discount if you flash that college ID which has been invalid for a while now. Great place. Great people. Nuff said. Close up the night at a Mexican restaurant (all this is still in downtown San Jose) where it literally took them 15 minutes to make one soft taco - I could do that in my sleep for the record.
Music, refreshing beverages, great company, great food to cap it all off. Now that’s what you call a good day ... which makes waking up on Friday to go to work a horrible afterthought.
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