Rainy days and Mondays always get me down

. . . especially a stormy weekend before my birthday.

I saw Mindy Smith last night at a very crowded concert. She was great, although I couldn't hear the first part of the concert because apparently, people like to socialize at free concerts. Towards the end, Mel and I gave up our horrible seats on a fencepost to stand (in a crowd actually listening to the artist!) where we could see and hear her. So the only song I really missed was "Jolene", because we were able to hear "Come to Jesus" and "Falling". She sang a version of Gershwin's "Summertime", saying, "He's still the shit." Guess who was the only one who hooted for that? Yeah, I'm a nerd.