Dayzdtomato: Never Not A Good Weekend

Thursday was PWCL's big fundraiser, a little early this year but still a great night. Luis and I spent some quality time at the free casino games in the back but still took in all of the activity and got to talk with a lot of people. Luis met one lady at the craps table who he discovered the next morning was the director of the bilingual program at Mason's school. Small world.

I've mentioned my favorite podcast Never Not Funny on here a few times before. Normally these guys record out of L.A. and the show comes through the world of Apple straight to my iPod. Well this weekend, they performed their podcast live in Portland as part of the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. There is no way I was going to miss that.

The show was at the Bagdad Theater so after dropping off the kids at Yaya and Papa Ron's house for a sleepover, we headed back down to the Bagdad for some dinner (Bagdad is a McMenamins theater). They had the doors open since it was a nice, sunny evening, so Luis and I were sitting half inside, half outside. Who should I see walking down the steet midway through my Terminator Stout than my 3 podcast guys, Jimmy, Matt, and Pat. Course, no one who isn't a fan of the podcast would know or care but I hopped up and had them sign my Never Not Funny t-shirt.

We tried to take pictures from the show but it was dark and they didn't come out well so here's the shirt...

I follow Pat (signature on the left) on Twitter and he posted this short clip of Matt (brown shirt) and Jimmy (blue shirt) enjoying Portland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUTmX3f84nA

After a relaxing morning of being able to sleep in (Yaya didn't get that luxury), we had a great breakfast at Sanborn's. Sanborn's is on Milwaukie Ave. across from the Avalon theater. It is also owned by the parents of one of my friends from grade school.

Today is Gloria's birthday so we headed to the Spaghetti Factory to celebrate with Luis' family. Course, he hadn't planned a gift ahead of time so the kids and I waited in the car while he ran into the store on the way...

They had me take their picture and then wanted me to take a self-portrait...you'll notice my arms sticking out to hold the camera in the reflection in my glasses.