The really good thing that happened today is that I managed to secure a ticket to tomorrow's Tool show in Oakland, CA. After getting shutout when tickets went on sale, I saw that scalped tickets were going for insane prices, so I decided not to buy.

But, after seeing them at Coachella, and listening to 10,000 Days nonstop since yesterday morning, I found myself clicking around craigslist a whole bunch while at work today.

Up until around 6 PM, all of my scalping attempts had failed - in spite of the fact that I was willing to go as high as $200 for one ticket. Luckily, a member of the Tool community noticed that Ticketmaster (of all people) had released some more tickets on their website.

So, like some sort of rocket with wrists, I shot in there and scooped up a ticket. No over-inflated scalpers premium, no worries about the ticket being fake. In a word, Awesome.

This is the one time that I have been glad to pay all of Ticketmaster's fees!

-Andy.

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