attending a bash

Joyce and I got to attend the 49ers Draft Bash (since we are season ticket holders) and were standing within a few feet of two football legends - Dwight Clark and Patrick Willis - and a newcomer, Ian Williams. Here are some of the pictures from the event.

Niner Noise drum team

local media trucks were present

before it got really crowded

Ted Robinson, Patrick Willis and Dwight Clark

Ian Williams, Dwight Clark and Ted Robinson

 a true fan

now that we've passed over the holidays

For the holy-days, I spent a good deal of time in worship-full places. On Saturday, I attended service where it was my honor to read some of the scriptures before Charlie's message. The Youth Group performed the music worship too! What a blessing. Then on Easter Sunday, I woke up early enough to attend the 9:30 service at the formerly Willow Glen Baptist, now Dwell San Jose Church, one block from the house. That was a blessing too; not only did I love the way the pastor delivered the message, but I was greeted by him and his year-old daughter before service started, and then by the music worship leader during the meet-and-greet session! They both came all the way from the front of the sanctuary to where I sat in the back row to make that personal contact!! I like  this place :-D Then that afternoon we had our congregation Passover Seder, catered by our favorite Persian caterer Sharam. Delicious, as always. And always terrific fun to see the kids participating, and listening to the music.

Thanks to one of my theatre contacts, I was able to get incredibly cheap tickets for Joyce and I to see Blue Man Group downtown at the Center for Performing Arts. We had dinner at one of our fave pizza joints before-hand, and had a great time watching those crazy-amazing people do their show. Good times!  Also got a heavily discounted ticket to see several of our friends in a local production of Brigadoon, one of my all-time favorite 50's musicals. The discounts almost ;-) make up for what you pay in parking.

Our dear friend from the theatre, Angel, was in town between deployments, and made time to catch up with us. He came to one of my regular karaoke nights, and we spent several hours catching up, singing several songs, and even sang a duet together, B&D's "Neon Moon." That was super special, and the crowd loved  it! Sang karaoke one other time during these two weeks, but it was at a more popular - more crowded - 'hot spot' and got to sing only twice in the 3-1/2 hours that I was there. Note to self - never again!!

SCP theatre activities included getting a 5-hour training session on the processes for updating various parts of our website, database, etc. Also finished out the hiring process of much of the staff of Zombie Prom (yay!) And had my first meeting about costuming for KJHS again, this time for a comedy - Machiavelli's Mandrangola. Get to come up with some commedia dell'arte type clownish costumes - fun-fun-fun!! Got to keep busy, can't ever be bored :-D