Aerosmith. Among other things.

Last week I traveled to San Francisco with my brother on business. We had to share a hotel room. Damn expense budgets. I did get him to iron my shirt. Since ironing is not a skill I possess, that made it worth it.

Upon arrival, we were picked up from the airport in a limo. The limo took us all around downtown San Francisco: conference, dinner and dessert. I've been trying to arrange a permanent driver back in Phoenix. Turns out Manda doesn't want to drive me everywhere.

Okay. The limo was the best part of the trip.

Until we learned we had free Aerosmith concert tickets. *claps with excitement*

Then we learned the concert was occurring after our scheduled departure date.

We were pretty bummed, but it turned out that our director was on-board with the Aerosmith love. She arranged for us to stay a day later for meetings... and coincidentally, we got to see Aerosmith. I love coincidences sometimes.

The Aerosmith love started out pretty well. $9.80 to ride BART from Walnut Creek to San Francisco. From there we hoofed it around downtown until we found a a suitable hotel to hang out at.

You see. Oracle was hosting Aerosmith and had arranged for transportation for the 30,000 people attending Oracle Open World to Treasure Island (which is in the middle of the bay). All we had to do was catch a shuttle from a participating hotel and we were set. (we of course had tickets) -- Don't ask why a lung surgeon was attending Oracle Open World... Maybe we're looking at using their databases to improve air retrieval speeds and lung capacity!

We stood in line for an hour. No shuttle came. Turns out we chose a hotel that was no longer participating in the shuttle route. Awesome.

Thankfully, we only had to walk 3 blocks to another hotel. We caught a shuttle in 15 minutes. We made it to Treasure Island with 20 minutes to spare.

Aerosmith was awesome. I was hearing impaired by the end of the concert.

We arrived back to Walnut Creek at midnight. We hadn't eaten dinner yet. Good thing Wendy's is open late. It was quite tasty.

After eating, packing and winding down, we got 3-4 hours of sleep. Then we headed to the airport. The transportation to the airport was a let down. If you're going to pick me up in a limo, you should drop me off in one too. I'm just saying.

Peace Out.
:o)