California: Week Two

I'm sure you are all wondering what happened during my second week in California.

Work was good. I was still working with another guy on the team most of the time, but it sounds like I'll be on my own for the most part starting this week. I signed up to take my Objective-C / Cocoa class in a couple weeks, once I learn some of that I'll be able to dig in and understand more code. I'll essentially be in class from 9:00 to 5:30 that entire week. We also spent most of Thursday in San Francisco at AT&T Park, watching the Giants play the Nationals. The Giants won, but it was a quick, sort of boring game. It was still fun to go with the team though.

The weekend was fun. Eliot and Seth came down to hang out and go to a concert Saturday night. John Mayer was in town and we bought tickets to see the show about a month and a half ago. Ross, before you judge us, watch the video below and see why it was an awesome show. That guy can play guitar. He did a lot of covers during the show, which included: Crossroads, originally by Robert Johnson but made popular by Eric Clapton during the cream era, Stitched up, which I guess isn't a cover, but a song he co-wrote with Herbie Hancock, a modern master at jazz piano, Free Fallin' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, a slow blues called Mercy and other great tunes. Mercy was a blues masterpiece. He was up there just teaching us all a lesson in musical mastery. I mean really, he can play the guitar like a madman. One thing we weren't expecting was the stand up routine. John Mayer was on one the whole night just crackin' joke after joke and he was actually pretty funny. It was a sweet show, check out this video clip of Crossroads, the quality sucks but it gives you a sense of how awesome it was.



After that we grabbed some Dennys and then the party was over.

It was a pretty good weekend.