Last night Jessica and I went to see Ingrid Michaelson perform at the Great Hall in the Memorial Student Center at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie, a town about a half hour west of Eau Claire. It was a bit of a anniversary gift for us with our anniversary being two days before. Normally Eau Claire gets the majority of performing ( Read more... )

From the past to the present:

• Jessica and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. The same day we also watched the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation. One-hundred seventy-six episodes from late May to late October by watching at least one a day except for our trip to SF and the day we moved.
• Went to a pumpkin patch. Got pumpkins ( Read more... )

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra was playing on campus last night. Jessica had purchased tickets for this event before the fall semester started and we got very close seats; fourth row center. Is was in a gym, though, and the performers were up on a platform, so we had to look up to watch them ( Read more... )

I had my first choir concert in almost 10 years today. In high school I was in choir every year but my junior year when I had a schedule conflict and couldn't take it. Since then I've been in band most of the time, but not in a choir. But I joined the symphonic choir at the university this semester as it's open to members of the community. It's ( Read more... )

Friday we decided to finally go out to for sushi for dinner. A few weeks ago, after reading a review saying it had a the best price/quality ratio, we set our sights on eating at Sushi County. We tried on Feb 12, when I had the day off from work, but found they were closed on Mondays, so that also ruled out the next Monday, which I also had off. ( Read more... )