Today is Sunday and Sunday’s are for getting away. Recharging. Relaxing. Getting refreshed.

Part of getting refreshed & recharged for me is musical theater. I’ve spoken about this before and if you know me, you know I love musical theater (if only I had been blessed with the ability to sing).

My mom and I are season ticket holders for Broadway in Portland and have done this for a long time. The newest season kicked off this week with Fiddler On The Roof. Tonight is our show. I’m very excited about getting to see this. What is extra special about this particular tour is we get to see Chaim Topol!!! Yes, the one and only Topol is on his farewell tour as Tevye. We get to witness a legend live on stage performing to a sold out show.

Here is a taste of Topol performing If I Were A Rich Man from his 1971 movie appearance. He won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar for this performance.

If you’ll excuse me, it’s time to get ready to head to the show. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and tomorrow we’ll look at some more market statistics here in Clark County, WA.

Do I what?

Do you Forkfly? What in the world is Forkfly? Well, here is what their website says:

Forkfly is a revolutionary new service that connects consumers with merchants. Forkfly features the best local merchants, restaurants, and service providers all committed to offering you incredible incentives and exclusive content.

Sounds good doesn’t it! Imagine having a ready to go coupon book at your fingertips at all times. With all their mobile applications that’s just what they are. Whether on a iPhone, android, Windows mobile or smartphone they have an application for you. Maybe you’d rather connect with them on facebook? Go for it! If you don’t have some type of smartphone capability, no worries. You can just head over to their website and print them out the old fashioned way.

Maybe you’re a local Portland/Vancouver area merchant (or merchant from around the country since they are planning to expand!) and want to know about the service. Here’s what they have to say about their service:

How would you like to have access to millions of potentially new customers? Customers actually looking to receive services, eat out, buy something and get great deals. That’s Forkfly! Forkfly is active marketing at its best. Forkfly builds brand, interacts with community and gives you customers. Opportunities are endless and are literally at your finger tips. Forkfly: Get Customers, Get Forked!

If you sign up for this cool service make sure to tell Forkfly I sent you over.

Cool giveaways on Twitter

If you aren’t following Forkfly on Twitter yet you should be! They have been doing all sorts of cool giveaways and contests here in the Portland area lately. In fact, my wife won 4 tickets to the Jonas Brothers concert happening tonight at the Rose Garden. My daughter and two of her friends are most excited about seeing them. My wife is excited to get to see American Idol season six winner Jordin Sparks. Below is the photo that ended up winning the tickets. Pretty funny huh. Guess where we picked up our tickets? @Whiffies of course. Yes, Whiffies Fried Pies uses Forkfly! Right now you can get two sweet pies for only $5.

What are you waiting for? Go get Forkfly’d!

This week I finally did it. I made the move away from Verizon and into the AT&T world. What caused me to do such a thing? Only one thing could cause me to do this. The new iPhone 3GS. This thing is amazing! Absolutely incredible. Rather than ramble on about it, I’ll show some of the shots I’ve made the last couple days.

This is Charlie, he was hanging out at the AT&T store. Charlie thinks he’s an eagle, please don’t tell him otherwise. I’d hate to disappoint him. He is actually owned by a dear friend of mine (who will be celebrating 10 years cancer free this year!!!) Yeah Amy!

Here’s a cool mural I stumbled upon in Portland yesterday. I loved the colors and imagery.

This is actually 6 or 7 photos that the iPhone app AutoStitch did for me. Very quick and easy to do. Make sure to click on this image to get the full size!

It does great video too!

I hope you all have a wonderful Friday!

I’ve watched different Improv Everywhere videos over the years all over the web. Things like freezes in Grand Central and musical theater in a food court. These all look like a lot of fun so when I found out Portland Improv was doing a freeze I wanted to go participate.

I grabbed my camera, my Flip video and headed to Pioneer Square to find out where our secret mission location was (it stays top secret so we can really surprise the folks wherever it is). As soon as I got there I learned we would be heading down to the Rose Festival Waterfront Village for our big freeze. The freeze would begin at 7:07PM and last for 7 minutes. We needed to pick our pose before hand so we could instantly freeze when the horn sounded.

This video is a little intro from me and then my entire 7 minute freeze. I had turned on my Flip video prior to start and held it in a way that would show a little background activity. If you manage to stick with the whole video you’ll see some funny people in the background “checking it out”.

You’ll also want to listen closely to the different things people say about all of us “frozen”.

Thank you Portland Improv for a fun night! I can’t wait to see what is next.