Let me think of yesterday. I was chillin out on my front porch with my roommate drinking some beers as I like to do after work. I look over and see this mini van with this older dude organizing his stuff. I take a good look and think to myself, that kind of looks like Charlie Parr. So I yell, “Hey! Charlie”. No response. I yell again. This time he turns around and to my surprise it is Charlie. He comes walkin down the street and we meet up and I say, “What a surprise!”. We chat for a bit and he says, “I’m just going to get Sneaky Pete and then off to the 331 club, you should come there”. What a nice guy. More musicians should be as friendly as Charlie Parr.

I remember the first time I saw Charlie play live. Gives ya that feeling, you know? Kinda like that feeling you get when the Soggy Bottom Boys started playing. Goodness. I like Charlie a lot too as he stays true to his roots. Minnesota. I was going to school in Duluth, MN and my brother invited to Wednesday night at Fitgers – when Charlie plays. I was definitely happy I went. I’ve seen Charlie Parr numerous times since that night and I have to say I’m happy I have. If you have a chance to see this legend, no matter your age, I highly recommend this treat – most of the time free too.

While I have your attention, take some time to view this video:

and this one:

First, go to Bing and then go to travel.
From there, search your flexible dates and find the cheapest dates on the graph – probably not going to be a lot. Write the lowest fare dates down.

Second, go to Orbitz and type those dates in, walla! Cheapest airfare you can possibly find.

By combining these two airfare search engines you will save yourself a lot of money.

You’re welcome.

Today for lunch I was invited to check out Five Guys Burger and Fries. I thought maybe, just maybe, it might kind of compare to the deliciousness of In N Out Burger? No way. Not even close. Other than the Juicy Lucy there is nothing in the midwest that compares with In N Out.

These two burger companies I’m comparing are actually kind of coastal rivals. In N Out from the west coast, Five Guys Burgers from the East coast. A lot of other facts you can review on each companies website (under history). But, for now I leave disappointed with just about everything about 5 Guys Burgers: Not as tasty as IN N Out, Slow Service, missed parts of what I asked for on my burger, bad fries, slow service considering there were actually more like 20 guys working there, loud and annoying in there, greasy to-go bag, and also, really not worth the $10.15 for the regular which should be called the double and the regular fries which is so much bad, greasy fries in your paper bag there really is room for nothing else.

Oh, In N Out, when are you coming to the midwest. Please, save us.

Street art in Dubai, I’ve been to Dubai and the opening shots are a great example of what it looks like, although I have seen better projection art, the following video has some good shots and good music:

Follow the rabbit. Pretty cool what they’re doing in this video.

More to come,
Josh

Mainly what we were hoping for is lobster as good as we had when we vacationed in Florida a couple of weeks ago. Stellas lobster was no where near that. It was absolutely disgusting. 0 out of 5 stars for the lobster. If you go here I implore you, don’t order the lobster.

Why, you might ask? Well, for one, this was the smallest lobster tail I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s printed on the menu as a 1 and 1/4 pound lobster tail from Maine. What it was more like is a craw fish from Louisiana. If that wasn’t bad enough when we finished the several bites from the lobster tail was the guts. Probably about 1 pound of this lobster was guts. Gross.

Stellas has always left a good impression in the past. Delicious oysters and a nice happy hour (at least that much remains). Tonight was totally imperfect. Not the stellas I remember. Maybe because it’s the start of spring break that this night was so bad but it was loud enough in there tonight to the point I feel like I’m def now after trying to have a good dinner. Prices were really high. Staff was unprofessional. I still have the stamp on my wrist from where I was carded at the door. Really, if you want a good dinner, especially if you want a good lobster dinner, Stellas Fish Cafe is not the place. I really hope someday they can bring back the classiness to this place. Well, hey, at least we got a good laugh watching the security carrying a couch past our table tonight as we dined.

If you don’t know what Picnick is you can give it a shot, www.picnik.com, works for facebook, etc……

So, if you search deep enough into Orbitz’s website, yes, you may find their ‘flexible search’. Not that good is it? No. Nothing compared with Bing. One good thing I will say about Orbitz is their customer service. I don’t think many people care about their ‘Price Guarantee’, we all expect our prices will stay the same. So, along with the subject of their customer service….. As I was on Orbitz’s site the other day a prompt came up on my screen with a lady asking me if she can help me. “Sure”, I said, knowing she wouldn’t be able to. I asked her if they had flexible search on vacation packages. She really didn’t know how to answer and told me I can go to ‘flights’ and then go to flexible search and make my selection. I said I’d already been there and it’s of no help for what I’m looking for. She didn’t understand that when most of us travel we need more than a flexible flight date. We need it all. And this is my suggestion to Orbitz: Take a moment and look at what Bing has done with their flexible search. Give us more options. Allow flexible search for vacation packages. Allow multiple city flexible search. And for our sake of time, speed up your website.