We left LA after a longest day.

The day was us sitting on some sidewalk waiting in line for the doors to open at the Palladium. I hadn't been to the Pally since I was a teen, over 20 years ago probably. I didn't remember the inside of the venue at all.

The wait was boring. I had not done something like that in over 20 years too. I think it was Return of the Jedi was the last thing I waited in line for over 6 hours.

The show was good. Trent wasn't feeling well, but he insisted on rocking the house.

His special guest wasn't Peter Murphy but Gary Numan and they sang Metal and Cars. It was amazing!


We're waiting here at the lounge in Terminal 3 for my parents, then off to the 2nd to last leg of the trip where we drive from Madrid to Barcelona.

This has been an incredible trip, not something...

I'm on my way to LA. I'm not going to be around much. I hope to be AFK until Sept 14th.

LA is first, then Madrid, drive to Barcelona and back to Madrid.


España!

I really have had no time in the past 3 weeks. I've been able to poke my head in here and there, but not really with anything where I can have or hold a discussion.

I miss it, I feel dull because I'm not able to talk about those things we can't seem to talk about in daily life. Too many people want to talk about those stupid things like Miley Cyrus and So You Think You Can Dance.

I still have 2 weeks where I'm not able to put in any time here. This time though it is because I'm going on a trip.

We fly to Los Angeles first, to see NIN one final time at the Hollywood Palladium. I haven't been to the Palladium since Metal bands ruled Sunset which is close to 20 years.

Next we meet my parents in London en route to Madrid. Once we land there, we hop in a car to drive to Barcelona. It's an odd choice for many to drive from one metropolitan to another, but it gives us a chance to see the Spanish countryside. We're staying in a Parador...

I got one about 2 years ago. I'm going to try to write it in during the Madrid/Barcelona trip and whenever the fancy strikes me.

I think it's a bit strange yet net and helpful to shop for eyeglasses and post photos online for comments from friends.

If I was a teen today, can you imagine the angst and anxiety? Well, I guess I would have done it in real time and not have... left the store until people posted comments.

For some reason I thought of the Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner in the Diner with the fortune telling machine. That's the one where they wouldn't leave the diner because the fortune telling machine told them to stay or something bad would happen to them, and eventually something did.









The first one...