how do you spell done

Alright - I'm tired... I can barely stay awake through sessions and it isn't from a lack of sleep, but I'm just burned out and lonely - (I know - it is a pity party just for me).  And while I'm definitely getting good ideas for my thesis (diploma program) so that is good - I have some great ideas for downtown/community revitalization - so that is all sitting in the positive court.  And yes, I'm in a major American city where you certainly wouldn't know there was a recession in this city.  I've seen a few homeless people - but very few... count them on one hand - went to a mall yesterday - a 1.5 BILLION development and it is all high end - Tiffany, Chico, Apple, etc - and it is swarming with people and they are shopping it up!  I also walked to the Ohio State Buckeye Stadium yesterday where they hosted 105,000 people at the game... not me - I just decided to walk around a bit.  What else... well here are a few photos from some of the evening stuff...

View from the nose bleeds - three rows from the wall of the building... note the Canadian flag...

Here is Little Big Town - VERY GOOD

What's this - I'm closer and on a different side of the building... how did that happen....

10 rows from the floor - this is the opening of Sugarland

There encore included Little Big Town - it was good too

$22 for this concert

Here are the Coors Light girls and boys cleaning the ice... 

And here are a few of the Pittsburg/Bluejackets game... 5-4 Pittsburg...

If you can see the flags going off in the distance of this photo - between the flag guys was the canon.

And more lame intermission activities...

This was another $10 game.. unreal!

So while this stuff is interesting and fun while you are there - it would be better with family - and I wish they were here to see some of the  stuff... to be honest - this place isn't that great and outside of the sporting features the business improvement area is run down and has only a few blocks where the surface is maintained - the mall I went to was too far from downtown and nothing to just browse and look at.  The zoo was something I was kind of interested in, but it is more than an hour away - so I'm not sure how they can call it the Columbus zoo - it is halfway to Cleveland... and now - back to class.