So I'll start at the top with the updates. The date didn't happen. I got a "let's be friends for now" letter that mostly cited her schedule making it impossible to have the dinner anytime soon. To her credit, she's not 100% wrong there. She's holding down 2 jobs (1 full time, 1 part time) and acting in 2 local community plays. Once the plays conclude in late October, she'll have about a week of relative freedom before schooling starts up again. To save everyone time reading, ...
Even better than Halloween last year, Nightwish returned to Seattle to rock the house again, but this time I hit the front row! I was in the perfect place, just a little off to the left of center so I could see everyone in the band clearly, and the mosh pit was behind me and to the right, so I didn't have to deal with crowd surfers trying to stomp my head in with their boots! They did their normal set, most of the songs from Dark Passion Play, and a bunch of classics like Century ...