Even took the stage and sang a couple songs at one of my bandmates (of numerous bands I've been in) 50th b-day party. He's in a Walnut Creek-based (mostly) Pearl Jam cover band and they reserved a bar in Downtown WC and packed it with friends and family. Saw tons of friends I'd not seen in 10+ years as I now live out of state, it was friggin' awesome.
I'm told I rocked the house, so ... that was cool.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the whole East Bay (and most of the rest of N. Cal), but it's soooo damn expensive to live there, and the traffic has gotten INSANE. But I sure love going back. So beautiful ... and the best peeps live there 
BTW, I was born in Oakland, as my brothers were, and my dad grew up there in the 50's (Fenton's is like his favorite place) and lived there most of his life til around 1978. He was an Oakland-based Teamster his whole career minus a brief stint in Vegas. I been to the Oakland Coliseum at least 200 times for games and concerts, my cousin and her family still lives in Oaktown up above Knowland Park in the hills there above the 13, and my Auntie lives just below the 13 since the mid-70's, off of Redwood ... oh, and I gambled at The Oaks in Emeryville ALL THE TIME in the early 2000's ... one of my fave neighborhoods there is Rockridge, by the BART station ... Oh, and I was Married in 2011 at Lake Temescal clubhouse ... The day Al Davis died, in fact ...
You get all that, Agent Mike?
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