Do I regret not going to the big party last night? No. Not because I don’t like Foreigner (although I really wouldn’t care if they all got respectable jobs in the wholesale sourcing market and developed terminal palsy) nor because I don’t drink (I don’t). No, it was because VMWare wanted to charge me $279.00 in order to allow Heather to come as my guest.

I can buy a lot of top-shelf liquor and a few Foreigner box sets for that level of scratch.

So we took half that amount, bought a set of tickets for Wicked at the SF Orpheum and had a night of it.

First, it was necessary to fortify myself with a vegetable curry pot pie purchased from a pieman. (who let me sample his wares)