So me and “The Waifs”:http://www.thewaifs.com/tourdates.htm are going to be in the Bay Area this weekend, me to attend “FEW”:http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Efitelson/few/, they to play a couple of shows.

At first I planned to go to their Saturday show, then I found out it’s part of a “big outdoor festival”:http://www.kfog.com/Events/kaboom/2004/schedule.asp and I’d have to blow off a paper or two to go see them. Well that sounded like an easy decision, so I looked at the “FEW schedule”:http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Efitelson/few/schedule.html to see whose I’d be missing. Mine. D’ho!

So I started thinking about their Sunday show. It’s an 8 o’clock kick-off and I don’t have to be on a plane until 11.15, but I’m on a flight out of Oakland and I don’t really think I could make it. Not even with a $60 cab ride from the Regency Center to Oakland. And it isn’t exactly obvious what I would do with my bags during the show. Can you check a weekend’s worth of luggage at the door of a concert?

So near and yet so far.