St. Patty's Day

The fam left today at 2:30pm, so after dropping them off at the airport at 1pm I went downtown to meet with Brandon to pick up some work at 1:15pm, then walked around Horton for an hour waiting for Steve and met with him at Ghirardehli's from 3:15pm - 4:15pm. After taking a look at Deco's I dropped by my house (almost ran out of gas... frightening to think of running out of gas in the middle of downtown in rush hour) then picked up Bonnie, Andy, Kallie and Josh to go to Theo's to eat. Kallie, Josh and I then came back to my apartment to try and find something to do. We were sitting around waiting for Ashley to call and watching Will and Grace, Jeopardy, and basketball when we suddenly heard three very loud, rapid... firings. We waited a second, and then I went to the window - nothing. I watched outside but nobody drove off, ran off, or even came out of their houses. I called the cops and about 15 minutes later 6 cops, a fire truck, and ambulance arrived. Turns out one of my next door neighbors was shot - they carried him out to the ambulance with a neck brace but we couldn't tell where he was shot. From the way they were carrying him it looked like he was ok. The lady that lives a couple apartments away apparently saw a guy run down Boundary street right after the shots were fired. I gave a little testimony report thing, my information, and then a few minutes later Kallie, Josh and I headed down to The Casbah with Ashley. Herms played drums tonight with Bad Credit which was preceeded by PFB - a U2 cover band. On St. Patty's Day. They even had a belly dancer. It was incredible. So funny. And Bad Credit rocked. Funny guys - good improv. Quite the Irish holiday event if you ask me. Neighbors getting shot, police reports, belly dancers, U2 cover bands, and white drunk Funk Hip-Hop rappers yelling about how Bill Gates owes them five bucks.