John Mayer At Shoreline

Seeing John Mayer last weekend was a lot of fun! He is a really great performer and musician. In between songs he was telling jokes and having a good time. I think that Kelley has all of the photos from that concert...but here is just a few from my phone We couldn't see the stage very well (just to the right of the lady on the left), but we could see the projection screen (left side of the picture) really well.
The view of the projection screen. Technology is great!

Opera at the Park

Last night, a couple of us went to see the Opera Lucia di Lammermoor at AT&T Park in San Francisco.I am generally not the opera-faring type, but on this occasion, I was all for it! We took the train from Cal Ave (as known as California Avenue station) to Fourth & King up in the city. Yesterday was so hot (even up in the City) so we decided to bring a few water bottles:
Those few water bottles seemed to turn into about 15 bottles! We didn't realize the large quantities of water we had carried to the park. The most exciting thing about the Opera was sitting on the grass of the park. We had our picnic on the grass as we watched a rather slow moving Opera.
This is Mikey (my co-worker) and her sister, trying to act like they are excited to see the Opera:

Chris and Mikey had the game faces ready for the action:

There were a ton of people at the park to see for the show:

We cut out at the intermission (we couldn't handle any more Opera at that point) to catch the 10:30 train back to Palo Alto. On the way, I tried for ten minutes to get a picture of this man's tattoo. You can't see from the picture, but his tattoo says "FAMILY."

Whew!

I just finished some compliance work for a mid size company on Friday at 12:00. This company is a September 30 year end company, so with a six month extension, their taxes are due tomorrow, June 16. Additionally, we had to prepare their previous year's return before completing their current year return, all before the 13th! It was sure a mad dash to get the tax returns completed on time. Who knows if we completed the return on budget?! I guess that is why I was elected to work on this project--billing only half of the rate of an associate. Last year, I was called a bargain--hopefully I can maintain this status! I spent the last 3 weeks working nonstop on this project.

I came across multiple hurdles with the tax preparation software--I became a regular on their customer support hotline. I had supposed that everything would be completed on Thursday night so that we could kick the return out the door to the client on Friday. Boy, I misread the writing on the walls! I should have know that the software was going to lock me out! I figured out that I could log in from home, so I left the office at 8:00 pm to go home. I tried about every hour to log onto the software, but I was still locked out. My coworker, Imelda, also tried to log in before she left work (she was working on some Q2 work).

I decided that I aught to get up before Sean had to make copies of the completed return, which happened to be a 6:30 am on Friday. I woke up at 5:30 am to see if I could get into the software to get the return printed. The 13th happened to be pretty luckily for me that morning--I logged into the software, caught a minor error in the return, printed the document to pdf and emailed it Sean by 6:45 am. I went back to bed for a half hour then went to the office. The day turned out to be just fine with both returns being sent to the client by 12:00. I decided it was a great day to clock off early...