Taste of Lincoln

It's been a few weeks since I went festing. Don't get me wrong, I love the whole wander around drinking beer and heckling cover bands in the twilight, but it gets old, and expensive. So it has been more "private party" (chilling at someone's house with a case of something, listening to music).

However today, the fest came to me.

Taste of Lincoln Avenue is this weekend, which I forgot until I got to work, which is effectively blocked on all sides by festival. There are all sorts of vendors, from local restaurants and bars, to purses, jewelry and birth control (I can't make this up). Which made lunch a little more interesting (duck crepes with spicy strawberry sauce). But the noise level is annoying, if just because they have like 3 stages in the course of 2 blocks. And they area all playing. Wee bit of a cacophony. So on the stage by the back door of my office, you have your standard cover band, and on the stage two shacks down from the front door is some Sinatra wannabe. And now there is a DJ playing Top 40 shit.

Festivals are a lot less entertaining when you do NOT have a beer in hand. And are effectively stuck for hours. And if I don't like the band who's playing, that's a bummer.

On the plus side = mad freebies. Got some Fructisse serum, a mini raspberry mocha frap, and a bottle of Silk Chocolate Soy Milk, which was damn tasty. Maybe I will have to use the Whole-Food-hippie coupon book and get more.