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Wednesday night was a night for a bit of culture as I went to see Fatoumata Diawara. A singer originally from Mali, but now based in France. She always gives a good performance because she brings energy to the show. Her songs are about issues in her home country, and around the world. She uses positivity to remind us we are all part of one...
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Yesterday was a full one, even for me. My day started out with going to the University of Southern California spring football game. The team should be decent next season, but still have my doubts.

After the game, I went over the California Science Center to check out the Maya exhibit. They had a lot of Mayan artificts that had never been outside of Mexico
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After Bob Marley on Friday and a ride to Malibu in the afternoon, last night had me down in Carson for some boxing in the venue colloquially known as The Punch Bowl. The main event featured Sebastian Fundora, a junior middleweight contender who I have an affinity for because he has always been nice in our interactions.

It wasn't to be Sebastian's night as he
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Yesterday I went to Hollywood and Highland to check out the Bob Marley One Love Experience. I didn't realize how much of his music would take me back to childhood. My father had Bob Marley in his regular rotation and there was always music playing in the house.

The trip worked out and I even took the back way, so I didn't catch all of
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Last night, I saw G-Eazy perform at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. I guess he is back to more of his hip-hop roots. Seeing him in such a small and unique venue was fun. Not a bad way to spend $40 on a Wednesday.

Around the comic convention this past weekend, I also managed to go to a concert. I saw Rival Sons and Greta Van Fleet. Since the show was on the other side of Anaheim from the convention and starting an hour after the convention ended, it made it a no-brainer to go. I was there to see Rival Son, so I was a bit disappointed they...
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This weekend was spent down in Anaheim at WonderCon. I hadn't been to it before. My friend was there with his comic book. This time I managed to help his sell a few copies! Although, I still have no clue about what most of the cosplayers are dressed up as. 🤷

Apparently, Funko Pops are a bigger deal than I thought they were.

The life
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Since it has been raining here, I have been keeping my adventures to a bit of a minimum. I did make a stop by the location of the first McDonald's. It is in San Bernardino, California. The location has been turned into a kitchy museum full of random McDonald's memorabilia. I didn't know this place existed until a couple of weeks ago. It was free...
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This past weekend actually brought snow to Southern California. This is pure silliness. No way we can say climate change isn't real after experiencing that.

On the other side, I did eventually make it down to Anaheim to watch the sectional finals for high school basketball. Unfortunately for me, my old high school lost both the boys' and girls' finals. Going 0-2 on the day
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This week was a long one with work being a lot due to staff being out. It ended up where I was doing the work of four people. It was supposed to be only last Friday, but ended up being all week. I found my bearings after a couple of days and made it through. I was able to find a bit of joy with...
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I can say loneliness takes many forms. The backside of the holiday season has meant lots of time in the movie theater and roughly $1000 spent on Nikes. Despite my efforts, days can go by without any real human connect, but at least Nike never turns me down.

After nearly two weeks out of my office, I went back in today. It was a largely rainy time away. There was still some adventures between the rain drops.

I ran into former professional basketball player Robert Horry when I went to watch high school basketball. We are all smiles before the trash talk about our teams (his team won the game). 😡

There was
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