5 Man Scholomance run ruined my weekend schedule.

So this past memorial day weekend started wayy early. Starting Thur and Friday it was concert night with Mr. Starfizzy. We saw And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead @ the Wiltern. Here is Mr. Starfizzy detail documenting of the events of that evening. I deny any responsibility for any of my actions due to the air in LA. Also, Mr. Starfizzy forgot the most important rant of Cokie McPitStain, which he amended later in the week. Trail of the Dead was ok in my book, what really sold me that night was the performance by The (International) Noise Conspiracy. They r some sort of Swedish concoction with a fancy for red. They claimed to be communists, so i figure Mr. Starryfizzy was going to crème all over himself. But i found the band to be surprisingly entertaining as the lead singer did the Ganf of four crab walk i saw from Coachella, and had these Mic cord tricks that would of made a ranger with the rapid fire feat jealous. At the end of the evening i was convinced that yes, a whip should be a dex based range weapon.

Friday night was another concert night at the Hotel Cafe. The Wang really wanted to see Soda and his Million Piece Band. They r kinda of old school bluesy rock. And the band bit is really cool to see, kinda of jumpin' with 2 sax players. And the entire band is pretty skilled, they went through table/standing guitars, banjos, and mandolins. Overall it was a nice fun experiences to see an almost swing big band-type band in the small venue like Hotel Cafe.

So the Wang officially planned a Weekend trip to the Bay Area for a friends wedding. But the entire schedule got thrown off by a 5 man scholomance run on Friday/Saturday morning. Which lead the wang to 3p rise time. Thus running the entire 5hr drive for dinner in SF. Thus I hung around and went to Mr. Starfizzy's house LAN party. Which was very geek cool. If u never been to a LAN party its pretty much a bunch of guys showing off their "setup" and playing games that involves killing each other. The smell of hour old pizza combined with the sounds of roaring computer fans, fills the rooms. Cords, lights, speakers, and sleeping gamers all crowd the floor of any available space. Of course this will all follow by the insults and put downs from one gamer to another at the sound of "HEAD SHOT!!" or u bitch! Also where ever female gamer get ugooled and drooled upon, u know since girls are rare in gaming. The game of choice that fine evening was Republican Commando, Warhammer: Dawn of War, and one of them Command Conquer games. The Wang didnt stay very long, as the long road to SF required its own 5 hr block. But i had a nice home cooked meal with the Porn King and Queen.

Beyond SF is fun as usual. Met up with old friends, ate, hang out, read comics and unfortunately due to the shotgun nature of this trip, the Wang didnt have time to visit any SF venues for music. But some breakfast place and good meals lead to a very fun but short trip. The Wang of course showed up for the wedding with digital camera in hand and went to work. The groom is a old friend from work, and claimed a Hawaiian heritage, which lead to a small Hawaiian musician group and catering. Which turned out to be very small but nice. Around 50ish ppl at the Slovenian Hall near Bottom of the Hill in SF. The interesting part of the wedding was to watch the Groom's family from Ohio and the brides family, from Korea mingle. This lead to some odd accents and interesting dialog and ended with the mad crazy Korean dance off. The Wang did get to see a few ex-co-worker that i havent seen in awhile. And a few that should of showed up didnt.

The rest of trip was the Wang catching up on sleep to be ready to drive another 5 hrs to get back home... for a RPG game... yes. But doing high speeds on the I5 is always fun as u can take into full account the "passing game." Where u try to pass slow cars and dodge trucks. Still driving for 5 hrs alone is always fun, cause u can just fall asleep and no one will notice. The biggest regret was when the Wang noticed a disabled VW GT or Jetta on the side of the road near Kettleman City, a hundred feet away was a cute looking blonde girl in pigtails. But the time the Wang realized the golden opportunity, it was too late. The Wang does feel sad though; pig-tailed girls should never have to walk 3-4 miles for a service phone... alone, in the hot hot sun, by the freeway.