Disintegration is the best album ever

Kleinstack and I went to Charlotte to see The Cure yesterday. After U2, The Cure is my favorite band. I would have to say that Bobcat Arena is not a place to see a concert. The acoustics sucked. But Just Like Heaven, Close To You, Love Song, Pictures of You, In Between Days, Let's Go To Bed were covered. They played for over 3 hours and given the sound system I finally had to cry uncle after the first encore. That being said I still loved it and Kleinstack was a real trooper given that she only knows maybe 2 songs of theirs.

Along with the entertainment of the concert there was the entertainment of the audience. There was solid evidence that there's someone for everyone out there. Given the band, the crowd was going to be an assembly of Charlotte's finest characters. If Charles Darwin had a store, several of those people would have come from Darwin's Bargain Basement outlet.

We stayed at The Dunhill (Finished Mountain if you will). It was a perfect location, about 4 blocks from the arena. It was a nice hotel but our room was kind of warm and needed a little cosmetic attention.

The city of Charlotte was a buzz with construction. We were very impressed. It actually looks like a city. Lots of cool architecture and the downtown (or uptown) had a lot going on. I did wonder, if we were in Uptown where was Downtown or Midtown. It may just be a bit of Atlanta envy.

An Update from the Predictions desk at c6

Five month review of 2008 Predictions

1) Half Right-Presidential Finalists Romney and Obama. McCain and Obama
3) Right-Stanley Cup Winner Detroit Red Wings
4) Right-Local office of AccessGLT will be awarded it's first job. Smurfit-Stone
5) Right- Chris will shoot his first commercial job and consider leaving Pharma. Out of pharma and concentrating on photography.
7) Wrong-New England wins the Super Bowl. New York Giants.
8) Wrong-Georges are having a boy. It's a girl-no name yet.
10) Wrong-Teresa and Scotty announce their return to Raleigh. Scotty's job and Teresa returning to school for her PhD will keep them in DC
15) Wrong-NBA Champions Detroit Pistons. Lost to Boston in the Eastern Finals
17) 20% Right-Kim, Chris, Lori, Dan and I will run the NYC Marathon. Only Dan got in.
18) Right-All things eco friendly will become mainstream. Everyday more and more is green from houses to cars and all points in between.

Next Prediction update will be November 5 after a new President is elected.

Today I voted and got a sticker

Today was the primary. Pullen Art center was my spot to exercise my constitutional right. I love the idea of voting and everyone should. However the thing that make the experience somewhat of a buzz kill in the end are the propaganda vultures waiting to pounce on the way into the voting place. These people swoop in with their brochures, signs, buttons and cheers. They truly invade your space. I’ll I wanted to do was go in, do my business and leave, knowing I took part in this 232 year old ritual. Then when you're done voting you walk out and you find that the love is gone. They don't even look at you. They’re too busy hitting on the fresh meat. It's like a one night stand. I feel so used, but I voted.

Today in business it doesn't matter where you are...

From the quiet confines of c6 and with the assistance from my AccessGLT people in SF,CA I submitted a bid to Xerox today worth $19,581,090. The bid is for ocean freight from China, Japan and Korea to their various U.S. facilities.
I have seen any numbers yet but this may be the largest bid today in the U.S. from a bedroom.

You know when you do something without thinking and it effects someone else negatively, and that person isn’t mad as much as they’re disappointed in the action. It’s much easier to deal with some getting mad. You can get over being mad. Disappointment is tough, there isn’t a do-over. You can back up but that has limited success. Even in the short term, saying you’re sorry doesn’t cut it. Thinking is hard and you have to do it all the time. Not thinking though can have many unforeseen consequences. Word of the day is, think.

What do you do if you run out of whitener?

I guess I take where I live for granted but if you lived in some parts of Montana, even getting necessities like 1/2 and 1/2 require logistical decisions. There's no real point to that other then I'm out of whitener and I don't have a man servant. Even having associates doesn't help at 10:40 pm.

Monday was signup day for the NYC Marathon. Kim Chris and have signed up. I need to check on Dan to see if he's registered.
I'm considering running in a half marathon in April. I've already run in a 5k road race this year so I should be ready, right?

I should hear about the Boeing photo job tomorrow. It's my first $100k+ estimate in about 4 years. That would be huge not just for the money but for Robb's portfolio and maybe most importantly, morale. All fingers are crossed here in c6. I won't hear about the trucking bid for a few weeks. That one would also be big stuff, for money but again for morale.

I hope eveyone (all two of you who read this blog) has a fantastic March.

Random Stuff

Central Washington State.

If you only saw the last 5 minutes of yesterday's Super Bowl then you saw the best 5 minutes of any Super Bowl.

Clichés that need to go away:
At the end of the day.
It is, what it is.
The Next Level.
And what not.

My prediction list isn't looking as fortuitous as I had hoped. Two predictions have already gone south on me; Charles and Catherine are having a girl and not a boy and New England didn't win the Super Bowl.

House is my favorite show.

Recently downloaded songs:
A Certain Romance-Arctic Monkeys
#1 Crush-Garbage
Rainy Season-Howard Devoto
Flying High-Jem
My Worst Enemy-Lit
Nothing Natural-Lush
Right Now-Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris
Heaven-Rolling Stones
Phantom Limb-The Shins
Disarm-Smashing Pumpkins
Shut Your Eyes-Snow Patrol
Incinerate-Sonic Youth

I love me some POI

Abigail, the wife of David and the Mother of Daniel

Abigail Katherine Custack is scheduled to join the human race tomorrow at 7:30am. Amy is going in for a C Section due in part to the complications she had with Marin. I asked Dan if they could incorporate my name into Abigail's name and he said he'd see what he could do. Then I looked up her name on my source for everything Wikipedia, and found the connection, though way unintended. I'll still take it. Then there was the further connection to Dan. Too crazy.
Possible nick names are Abkat, AbiKathy, Abstack. As long as no one calls her Gail. You can't call a new born Gail.