Day 55 progress

It's been a busy two weeks in non-101 world. Here's what little I managed to accomplish.

57. Clean out my anime collection: I sold two more listings. I also had a strange event take place.

I had sold a book back in February to a buyer in Houston. Everything in the transaction went smoothly, and the buyer left positive feedback. Well a couple of days ago, my doorbell rings, and when I look through the peephole, I see a guy getting into the passenger seat of a car, which then drives off. I open the door, and there is a packing envelope on the stoop. Upon looking at the package, I see that it has not been opened, has my original shipping info on the label, and when I open it, the item inside is the original packing condition.

Well, I tell my fiancee about the strange event, and she tells me that she knows the name of the person that had purchased the item. Apparently they were both in the same student organization in college. Very weird.

60. Install and maintain landscaping in the front and back yard: My dad came over on the 21st and helped in the yard. We finished installing one of the garden beds, prepped the other one, and planted a new tree in the back yard.

In the finished garden bed I planted four pepper plants of assorted types, and a watermelon plant. I planted two other pepper plants, a cucumber plant, and a tomato plant in already existing beds.

Finally, we transplanted a large rosemary bush into a large terracotta pot, and placed it in what will eventually become a curved bed that will be filled with lavender and wormwood plants.

98. Go to 5 concerts: I went to Edgefest 16 on the 15th of April. It was an all day festival, but Claudia (my fiancee) and her friend Colleen decided to show up around 4:00 PM. We ate pho at one of our favorite placed before we went to the Pizza Hut Park, a soccer stadium located in Frisco.

The first band we saw was Blue October. I had some impressions about this band before I arrived at the show, and I'm happy to say that I my impressions were changed for the better. I thought they put on a good show, put a lot of passion behind their music, and they sounded great live. I was suckered in to the point that I got their latest CD, "Foiled", a few days later.

The second band we saw was Muse. I was very exited about seeing Muse. I loved "Absolution", and their latest album "Black Holes and Revelations" is rather good too. The guys in the band are all extremely talented musicians, and I was very impressed with hwo the depth of their studio work translated to the stage.

The third band we saw was AFI. Actually, that's somewhat false. I had no interest in AFI, so we got up to look at merch and buy food. What little I saw did not impress me at all. AFI seemed like they were trying way to hard to fit their image, and it was not convincing in the least.

My Chemical Romance came on as the next to the last band and they were unbeliveable as usual. Say what you want about their music, play the part of "overly educated and high minded music critic", but until you see them live, you really can't judge how truly great they are. Like the show at Nokia that I saw a couple of years ago, this show was extremely high energy, with the crowd getting into each and every song. In fact, before the MCR performance began, I commented on how they would totally upstage the Killers, and they did it in spades.

Finally, the Killers came on. I felt kind of sorry for them, because 25-30% of the crowd left after the MCR set. But, I'm glad I stayed because the Killers put on a very good performance. The only slow part of their show were the gaps between songs, where their banter with the crowd was weak. Had they just rolled from song to song, I think it would have been flawless.