Day 218: Concert 2 – Weezer !

 

August 6th, 2011I woke up this morning the absolute best way I knew how: by laying in bed and watching TV shows. It was a very bittersweet moment reminiscent of my childhood as I watched various episodes of Degrassi (instead of Saturday Morning cartoons) before finally getting up and showering. When all was said and done, I spent the morning playing Tetris, eating the last of my milk with cereal, and slowly awaiting the ultimate plan for the day: Weezer concert. Michelle came over and we anxiously awaited Pam’s arrival to come pick up us. She picked us up, and we went to Old Town to go find her missing sunglasses she left at a restaurant last night. She successfully found it, we got some parking verified at Horton Plaza, before finally heading to the ultimate destination of Del Mar. With it being my second day there, we parked in the same $8 lot we parked yesterday, and walked on over to the concert fair grounds. We legitimately saw a horse race (it was super fast), before pushing our way to the middle of the crowd for Weezer. They were amazing as I snapped a picture for my day. They were equally as good last year, and I especially liked their cover of “Pumped up Kicks”. They were definitely entertaining. The next portion of the day resulted in Pam, Michelle, and I being lost – we were unable to find our car, and walked around in circles for 30 minutes before bumping into it again (we were walking in the wrong direction). By the time we got out, we were all extremely hungry so we decided to drive to “Tofu House” to try to get food. After minutes of searching for it, we finally found it, but it was closed, so we settled for some delicious In&Out. YUM, SHAKE, FRIES, & A BURGER. We talked and exchanged some stories the rest of the night before going home. Fun Times. Cool Story Bro.

On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender, made the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent what he predicted would be a much greater loss of life were the United States to invade the Japanese mainland. And so on August 5, while a “conventional” bombing of Japan was underway, “Little Boy,” (the nickname for one of two atom bombs available for use against Japan), was loaded onto Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets’ plane on Tinian Island in the Marianas. Tibbets’ B-29, named the Enola Gay after his mother, left the island at 2:45 a.m. on August 6. Five and a half hours later, “Little Boy” was dropped, exploding 1,900 feet over a hospital and unleashing the equivalent of 12,500 tons of TNT. The bomb had several inscriptions scribbled on its shell, one of which read “Greetings to the Emperor from the men of the Indianapolis” (the ship that transported the bomb to the Marianas). >:( STUPID PRESIDENT.

A day after Standard & Poor’s took the unprecedented step of downgrading the creditworthiness of the U.S. government to AA+ from AAA, the ratings agency offered a full-throated defense of its decision, calling the bitter standoff between President Barack Obama and Congress over raising the debt ceiling a “debacle” and warning that further downgrades may lie ahead. Although the two other major rating agencies, Moody’s and Fitch, maintain their AAA ratings on U.S. debt, senior S&P officials on a conference call with reporters Saturday insisted the ratings firm hadn’t overstepped its bounds by focusing on the political paralysis in Washington as much as fiscal policy in determining the new rating. SO TRUE. THEY ARE CLEARLY NOT OWNED BY THE FED.

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