I had a great weekend. Friday night we went to see Robert Plant and Alison Krauss play at the Green Theater in Berkeley. I was more there to see Alison Krauss, but I thought it was a great show. They played a lot of songs from their album, but they also did bluegrass-y covers of Led Zeppelin songs that actually worked really well. Despite being 924 (okay, 60) years old, Robert Plant definitely can still sing, which was impressive. Alison Krauss was scary good, as always.

Otherwise, the city presented many fun activities over the weekend where I also was able to use the new camera and lens, so hopefully I'll have some pics up soon.

Finally, Sunday night we took a friend to dinner at Greens, which was excellent. Who know a meat-less meal could be so good??

http://iscaliforniaonfire.com/

I heard on the radio this morning that there are currently 1100 fires burning in California right now (or maybe just Northern California? It was early; I wasn't really paying attention) and we're really starting to see the effects. The air outside is hazy, even in San Francisco, and farther now the peninsula, you can smell smoke outside.

On the plus side, the sun is red, which is kind of cool. I imagine it would be a great few days to shoot outdoor portraits, since you get warm, sunset-like light all day long.

I'm participating in the AIDS Walk this year. If you can spare it, please consider donating to the cause. Thanks!

Uploaded to Flickr on 24th June, 2008.

At the gig he and Owen played on Sunday. More pics here.

And by "lazy" I mean I went to work. Saturday was a laundry day, then we had dinner at Aslam's Rasio in the Mission, which I thought was excellent, but maybe not worth the Muni ride + walk out to the Mission.

Sunday I went to work for 5 hours or so to get a little more ahead on my current task. On the way in, on Yar's recommendation I tried the McDonald's Southern Style Chicken Sandwich, which is supposed to be a poor man's Chick-Fil-A sandwich, and I gotta say it's pretty decent. Not as good as Chick-Fil-A, but considering the nearest Chick-Fil-A is 40 miles from SF, I'll take it. Of course, without the cole slaw and waffle fries, it wasn't really a complete experience, but I'll take what I can get.

That evening we went to see Owen and his friend Yair play at Epic Arts in Oakland. It was a great show, and I got to exercise my 5D under very challenging lighting conditions (very dark room + backlit performers), so I'll have to see how those came out.

Other than that, I watched a lot of Dexter, which I highly recommend, though maybe not right before bed, as that leads to really weird dreams.