So the weekend plan went without a hitch. We got to drop off Alex at the inlaws on Saturday just after noon. The plan is to stay at a hotel near the BART station in Pleasant Hill so we can take a train into scary Oakland.  The hotels was excellent, and we got a discreet, corner suite that we can use for any nefarious reasons ;)

We had a great dinner afterwards at a Cuban restaurant in downtown Walnut Creek.  They had a great halibut ceviche and tasty mojitos, but unfortunately something did a number on our stomachs. That delayed us hopping on BART to go to the concert, and as a result we missed the first band (called 3) on stage. Slight bummer, but no problem. The main attraction is yet to come. 


So overall we had a great time at the concert.  We got back to the hotels at midnight, and went to sleep by 1:30am. I was in bliss not having the baby boy stick his foot in my ribs or my head (or even worse places). We woke up at 10am and went to brunch in Walnut Creek at a place called the San Franciscan. The food was good (I had crab cakes Benedict), but then it was time to pick up Alex. So we showed up at my inlaw's house. Alex was pretty good with them, but he was ready to go home. So we got home and all was well. I made a teppanyaki dinner again because naiad8  wanted to go to Benihana earlier but the idiots wouldn't open for lunch until 1pm.

The weekend was great, but the week is going to be crazy.  It's already started crazy.  Alex woke up at 2am and didn't go back to sleep until 5am.  So I'm pretty tired this morning.  My company is having a software release today, but I'll miss that because I have to go pick up my relatives at the airport.  A cousin of mine is graduating from UW Pullman so her brother and mom came from Costa Rica, who will then go on the coast-to-coast tour of America with stops in San Francisco and New York.  The original plan was for my mom and I pick up at the airport, but a phone call last night drafted naiad8 and Alex in the second car because apparently my cousin at Pullman decided to send two suitcases worth of crap with her mother and brother back to Costa Rica.  So they'll have like 6 pieces of luggage and carry-on, and there's just no way it'd fit in any of our cars.  Don't you just love cheapskate relatives?  How hard is it to ship her crap to Costa Rica?  It's not like it's a real third-world country.  Jeez!

Anyway, back to work.  It's gonna be crazy.

For some reason Alex laughed himself awake at 5am this morning.  Took us between an hour and a half to two hours to get him back to sleep.  The problem is that once his brain goes on, it's really hard for him to lull himself back to sleep.  I really need to set up soothing music which really seems to help to put him back to sleep. 

Between that and the codeine I took last night, I'm just absolutely ditzy today.  I think that I metabolize codeine slower than the average person, so it doesn't hit me like a brick wall, but instead it makes me useless for long periods of time.  Ugh.

I just got my tickets to go see Dream Theater and Opeth in the Progressive Nation Tour 2008 on May 3rd.  Yay!  It's in downtown Oakland, which isn't exactly the safest place to be on a Saturday night.  It's going to be like a 5-hour concert, with 4 bands.  The two opening bands will play 30 minutes each.  Opeth will play 60 minutes and Dream Theater 90 minutes.  The doors open at 7pm, and if luck goes our way, we'll be out of the whole thing by midnight noon and hopefully catch a BART ride back to the suburbs. 

Now if only I can concentrate and do some work.