On the road again

Immediately after my last post, I came down with a pretty nasty cold or flu or something, which I'm just finally almost but not quite entirely recovered from. And now I once again find myself on the road again...

Back in August 2004, I endured a pretty miserable experience at what was supposed to be Phish's last shows (following the torrential rain and mud soaked fields that caused too long of a backup of cars, we were part of the 10s of thousands that abandoned our cars to walk to the show). Oh yeah, and they were pretty mediocre shows. And at the time I said that Phish better not pull some lame oh we're getting back together a few years down the road, and that I certainly wouldn't be flying cross country for them.

Fast forward to March 2009, and here I am, in Hampton, VA, last night was the first set of a three night run. (I'm just going to Fri and Sat b/c we have 2 tickets for each of 3 nights, but 3 people to split them between. Although I could probably find a Sunday xtra if I really wanted to stay another day.) I may have been a little bitter before, but I think I've forgiven them -- it was a pretty damn good show last night.

And it amazes me how much technology has progressed -- no more tape trees and waiting for the mail... Courtesy of the band, we have already downloaded 256k mp3s of last night's show (copied to 2 laptops and an iphone already) and are listening to it right now on the computer I'm typing on.

Yes, I realize that most of you out there probably think I'm crazy.

- Rich