My first post and I’m thinking about studio. I’m slightly missing the late nights and no sleep but then again it’s nice sleeping at night for a change. I miss the people I met and worked with. I miss the dinners and breakfasts with funny ass people. The smell of sawdust and glue. Well it will all start a gain on the 27th so I better enjoy the time I have.

 

 

 

 

08/17/07 – Interstate 880/Mission Blvd Exit – Fremont, CA

California has many things to love. Mountains, lakes, rivers, valleys, coastline, cities, culture, people and food. You can go from desert to snow, snow to coastline, coastline to river, river to lake and anything else you can possibly think of in a single day if you know how to drive. What separates the strong from the weak in California is that there are those who can drive and those who cannot. There are those who can deal with the daily commute and traffic, then there are those that have road rage so intensely they constantly look like they are either going to shit their pants or have their head explode when you drive past them blasting the latest and greatest from Nine Inch Nails when all they really want to hear is cars rolling off the side of the road getting out of their way as if some devine power came down and parted every California freeway as if it were the Red Sea, specifically for them. Good luck asshole. An hour each way makes for two hours a day and it doesn’t matter where you are going as long as you know it’s going to take all the bubbling lava in Hell to make anyone else willingly let you get their faster than them. Enjoy it… you have beautiful cars, nice sunsets, good music. You know, unless you are one of the millions of people in California with a shitty car, poor gas milage, no stereo and a two hour a day commute that makes you want to strangle the cutest of kittens.

Welcome to California, California Love, and California Traffuck.

8/19/07 – 1535
Dick’s Sporting Goods, Niles, IL

I decided I wanted to go and drool over some kayaks that I can’t afford…..yet. Can’t wait to get one, but I guess I’ll have to. The best part about a kayak is the self cooling apparatus. If you get too hot while you’re paddling, just invert your boat! Make sure you know how to flip it back up though. Otherwise, you just may cool yourself permanently. I’d like to do whitewater someday, but I figure I’d better get started with lake and river trips first. I did a little kayaking on a lake as a kid and some funyaking (inflatable) last year on on the Peshtigo. Rafting is a good time too. I’d like to do the Colorado someday for sure, but that’s mainly for the sightseeing. There’s a lot to be said about working hard to navigate a river as opposed to just getting flushed.

Yes, the store has a full climbing wall in the middle of it. I haven’t been on belay in quite some time, but that’s certainly a lot of fun. For us midwesterners, Devil’s Lake is a good time.

I love the city, but can you tell where I want to spend my weekends?