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My NY's eve: Coworker says she has an extra ticket to the Avett Brothers concert at Thomas Wolfe Center, her friend canceled. We meet there and the lines to get in are freaking crazy. Plus the crowd is extremely young scruffy kids. We determine to give it a go anyway, and once inside, having gone through the ordeal of the security search and all, realize we don't want to be there. The band has already started, acoustics are terrible, and it's in the open auditorium section where it's all general admission.

So wind our way back out through the security lines we just came through, and instead walk downtown to the French Broad Chocolate place, where we have coffees and chocolate truffles and converse for two hours. Oddly, the coffee place was jam packed, but everybody was much more attractively put together than the concert crowd.

All in all, a pleasant evening.

Today I slept in, then got up and made chicken breasts for brunch, had a couple of beers, and hot-soaked my new Levi's 501 Shrink-to-fits. Then listened to Derek and the Dominos Live at the Filmore, All Things Must Pass, and Abbey Road, while doing laundry, pulling out music posters to put up on the walls. Then went back to bed midafternoon with more music on, a crossword, and then fell asleep for two hours. Woke up, called my wife, and now here I am. About to go out to buy crab meat and crab cake mix and more beer. Somewhere in there I played ball with the dog and we went on a walk.

All in all, a pleasant day. 2010 is OK so far.