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36 HOURS!!!!! (and opening day art project update)

Until I am inside the gates of Citizen's Bank Park getting ready to watch BASEBALL!!!

Happy MLB Opening Day!!

Happy Phillies Opening Day Eve!!!

(In my opinion - it's way better than Christmas).

I mentioned on Twitter the other night that I was cleaning up my craft basement in order to start work on a little Phillies project.  I got that clean, gathered supplies over the past few days, and have everything ready to assemble tomorrow night.

Here are all the supplies - will assemble tomorrow.  Stay tuned for updates.

 

 

Catching up: Photos from the Philadelphia Flower Show

Lucky me.  The PHS came to do a lunch time talk at my office the other week and at the end of the talk, I won the raffle for 2 free tickets to the Philadephia Flower Show.  I hadn't been in a few years, so I was excited for the opportunity to go again (and of course even more excited that I wouldn't have to pay).

I invited my mom to go and we headed to the convention center early Saturday morning, March 12, and braved the many busses of out of town flower show tourists to experience Springtime in Paris.

 They remade the bottom of the Eifel Tower in the Convention Center. 

We were able to make it through all the exhibits by 1pm, then got some lunch at the Reading Terminal Market (yum). 

I also used the day to experiment with my camera, taking photos of the flowers and what not, and here are some of them.  All of them can be found on my Flickr page.

 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Death to All but METAL!!! Steel Panther in Las Vegas

A few weekends ago I headed out to Las Vegas for the weekend with Mr. ChickPhilA and another couple.  It was a quick trip, and we didn't have much on our agenda while we were there, after all, we had all been to Vegas many times before, no need to act like crazy tourist people trying to cram a gazillion things into the day.

The one thing that was on the MUST DO list, though, on this trip:  go see Steel Panther at House Of Blues.

 
A bit of background on Steel Panther:

• They used to call themselves "Metal Skool" and played every Monday at the Viper Room in Hollywood.  They covered 80's hair metal songs while mixing in a few of their own songs, penned to kind of poke fun of the same genre they re-created on stage
• They changed their name to Steel Panther, released a full length CD full of innapropriate glam rock/hair metal gems.  Funny funny stuff. 
• They have had many celebrities come to their weekly shows and join them on stage, recreating 80's classics - Kelly Clarkson, Vince Vaughn, members of the Dodgers, Pink, Avril,  Slipknot, Billy Ray Cyrus, etc... (video links after the jump)
• Girls like to wear not a lot of clothes, get up on stage, and usually flash something while they play
• It's as much of a comedy show as a concert.  You will laugh.  Out loud.  A lot. 
• They are very NSFW.  You've been warned.  If you are easily offended do not play these videos. 

Now, in addition to playing every Monday in LA, they play every weekend in Vegas - Friday's at House of Blues, Saturday at Green Valley Ranch.  If you are going to Vegas, have a sense of humor, and enjoy 80's hair metal (and poking fun of 80's hair metal), it is a must see.

The Jersey Cape vs. The Jersey Shore

The common thread of a Jersey Cape vacation is the 30 mile ribbon of clean, white sandy beaches which winds along the cool gentle surf of the Atlantic Ocean and connects the resorts of Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Avalon, Stone Harbor, the Wildwoods, and Cape May.  Each of the resort communities of the Jersey Cape offers a wide variety of activities for seashore getaway.

via www.thejerseycape.com

As I was driving to work over the Walt this week, a new digital billboard caught my eye. It had a big photo of the Swings on Mariners Landing in Wildwood, and said something about going to The Jersey Cape for summer vacation.

Now, I grew up in the Philly area, still live here, and spent almost every day of my childhood summers "down the shore" at my grandparent's house in Wildwood Crest. I have never heard of The Jersey Cape.

The next day I saw the billboard again, and saw it list all the South Jersey shore towns: Ocean City, Sea Isle, Avalon, Stone Harbor, Wildwoods, Cape May....

The only thing I could think of was that these southern towns, all part of Cape May County, are trying to push themselves further from the kind of negative connotation that now is associated with the words "Jersey Shore". (though I would have to say, Wildwood doesn't strike me as being much different than Seaside - besides the extra long beaches)

Kids frolicing on the Ocean City, NJ beach  from the Flickr of paladinsf

vs.

Snooki getting arrested on the Seaside Beach from TMZ 

So tell me, have I been under some kind of rock, or have people always referred to these shore towns as part of the Jersey Cape? In over 30 years, this week was the first time I had ever seen it....

Just make my Apple phone play nice with my Dell laptop.

Please.  Before I take both things and throw them out my window.

Has anyone else experienced issues with syncing their iPhone 4 with a dell laptop?  Mr. ChickPhilA has no problem on his with his iPhone.  Mine will actually sinc on his as well.  But everything goes batty when I try and set it up/sync with my dell studio 15z.

I have spent almost 10 hours with tech support of both apple and dell in the past 24 hours.  Apple actually had me go to the apple store and gave me a brand new iPhone.  Still syncing issues...

Trying it again while on phone with Dell tech support right now (this call is already3 1/2 hours long and still going). 

Head.  Meet desk.

Seriously, though.  Has anyone else had any trouble syncing their Verizon iPhone 4 with a Dell Studio 15z (best buy exclusive model with intel wireless display functionality).  If so, how did you work around it/get it to work?  Any help or ideas you have will be helpful.

 

Another neat vending machine.

Converted cigarette vending machine, now dispenses original mini artworks.



This is in the lounge of the new Cosmopolitan Casino in Las Vegas, where we just enjoyed a lovely steak dinner at STK.

Next stop, the Aria for the new Cirque du Soleil show, Viva Elvis.

Ahhhhh, Vegas!

I'm in Vegas for the weekend with Mr. ChickPhilA and some friends. Not
too much on the docket other than going to see Steel Panther tonight
at House of Blues and the new Viva Elvis show tomorrow at the Aria.
Just some relaxing and strolling (and blackjacking) the rest of the
time.

While strolling through the Miracle Mile shops at Planet Hollywood
casino today, came across this vending machine selling the Retro Sport
tri-blend super soft NFL shirts.

29 days

So the opening day lottery emails from the Phillies have gone out.
Hopefully some non-season ticket people were lucky enough to get a
positive response.

It's beautiful today in Philly. The bright blue sky is making up for
the fact that it's only 33 degrees out right now. Passed by CBP on the
way to lunch and got giddy when I realized it's only 4 weeks until I'm
headed in those gates for opening day. Hopefully the sky will be just
as blue, but 40 degrees warmer.

Can. Not. Wait.

I found the most amazing jeans! (finally!)

So, totally not baseball related. Dipping into one of my other
passions here - clothing.

I am always looking for "perfect" jeans for me. High rise, not a
jegging, comfortable, etc...

I found them at Madewell on Sunday. Light weight for spring, with that
70s vibe and wide leg that is finally coming back into style (thank
god for that), and best of all, they fit me like a glove.

I work with denim for a living, so I am insanely picky when it comes
to jeans. These are PERFECT!!

I was so excited I had to share. I will be testing them out and about
in Las Vegas this weekend. Yay.