I'm a dork :D but I thought this would be fun :D

I was driving down from Mt. Wilson in the LA forest :o

Just a few places I've made it to in my car

Thought it would be kinda neat just wish there was a better tool to use for it

A trip to Tehachapi that didn't go as planned

It's about 100miles away so it took me a bit more then an hour to get there. Not much of a view or much to see on the way there really until I got up there. Anyways my reason for driving up there was to get some honeycomb material to use to build a snowboard (see post below) and it was cheaper to drive up there and get it rather than shipping it.. cause it wassss 4'x8'. So I get up there and have them cut it down a bit since it wont even fit in my car. The wind was blowing and the honeycomb will crack if you bend it so I had to keep walking back behind my car with it to get away from the wind as a gust would come :\. I finally get it in my car and I had asked the guy that sold my the honeycomb how much the glider rides cost since I saw a few signs as I got to the airport, and he told me which building to goto to see about it.

So I head up to what looks like a two story house with some antennas which seemed a little strange to me. Inside a find a paper about the rides/flights that they offer which range from $90 - $140. Since I figure I'll only be doing this once I splurge and pick the $140 which is labeled as - the best. I pay for it and the lady tells me the pilot should be along in 10 minutes so I grab an orange juice since I hadn't eaten and wander around looking at the posters. My pilot Paul shows up and we head off and un-tie the plane and push it off onto the runway. I jump in the cockpit and Paul tells me about the controls and indicators and what not to touch.

Which is a two levers on each side of me.. one opens the canopy and one jettisons the canopy so ya didn't want to touch either one of those. So Paul goes through and checks the whole plane and the controls and the tow plane pilot hooks up the tow line and Paul jumps in. He tells me if I have the feeling to grab onto anything grab onto my harness instead of something horrible like one of the fun levers. So the tow plane starts going and jerks us a bit and soon enough were off the ground and going in circles to reach 9000' (and we were at 4000'). We reach altitude and Paul tells me to pull the release handle for the line and I'm busy taking pictures so it takes me a minute and he was wondering why there was such a long pause. We turn hard the right and the tow plane to the left to get us away from each other and off we go gliding around. Paul flies for just a little while before he lets me fly it just straight and level and then he demonstrates a turn. Which wasn't gradual at all and smooshed me into my seat a bit but was damn fun :D. So we do a few turns together and I get to do one on my own and Paul genuinely sounds surprised that I pulled it off nicely which made me feel good :D.
We cruise around a little bit longer doing about 60mph and then start getting ready to land so I get off the controls completely and we gather up some speed. We're doing about 90mph or so now and circling around the airport getting lower and lower and now he's got us lined up for the landing. I'm having a great time but thinking shouldn't I be at least a little bit scared here? We glide above the tiny 10' or so wide runway before the wheels touch down and slow down until the plane tilts over to one side and we stop :D. We get out and put the plane back and I thank Paul and head back homeeeee.

I think I did too much last weekend

I feel like Patachouli at the bottom there now not that I really know.. uh what that is.
Friday started off with me meeting my friend for some Mexican food and drinks for his birthday. Only me and one other friend showed and the rest of the people there were his girlfriend's friends.
Then from there I went to a friends housewarming at his apartment.. I had to park a block or so away and walk down the street with a 12 or 16 pack I don't remember. I get to the buzzer where there is a couple looking going to the housewarming also. Were all confused looking at the names for the buzzer because we don't see the right one or even the number. We spend probably 5-10 minutes trying to get buzzed in and finally call my friend and he tells us were on the wrong side of the apartment place!
We goto the other side and get buzzed in and I walk in put my beer down and look around.. I know no one that I can see. So I walk outside and make sure I'm in the right damn apartment and I am.
I have no idea where my friend is or any of our other friends but then I hear out of the second story window my friend upstairs. I grab a beer and make my way upstairs.. I barge through a bunch of people to get in my friends room since he's the only one I really know besides the people that went to the wrong side of the apartment place with me. Got introduced to all his friends and just drank and talked a bit. Walked down stairs and grabbed some more beer that I brought for us. Went back to talking and drink then we all emptied out of his room and went downstairs to find something like 60 people all downstairs and all of my beer gone :(.
Then one of his friends who's stoned and a bit tipsy starts talking to me and can't hold a conversation for anything. I actually feel a bit bad as she's talking to me because she really trying to talk but keeps going off on tangents over and over just making it strange yet funny. My friends re-introduces me to a friend of ours when we were younger and for the life of me I can't remember him at all which made me feel bad as he remembers me clearly. I talk with him and my friend while drinking for most of the night and leave at around 5am. I drive home and go right to bed..
Saturday I wake up in the afternoon sometime and head to my friends apartment for his birthday.. the same friend from Friday.
My friend takes a Canadian shot that he promised to and had no idea what it was and actually does it!
Snorting the salt:

Taking the tequila shot:

Squeezing lemon in his eye (we had no limes):

Then he ran into the bathroom saying oh my god it hurts!!
We spent the night drinking and playing battle of the sexes with three guys and three girls. Me, my friend, and theirs roommates boyfriend vs. my friend's girlfriend, friends roommate, and a friend of theirs. It's just a game where like you ask the girls a question only guys should know. Lots of stuff it turned out no one knew at all so it was full of a bit of fail. The cooking questions the girls however hated because I knew all the answers :D. Eventually their friend left and people started getting sluggish and passing out.

My friends girlfriend went and passed out and I left her completely alone and was good and did nothing.

I went to sleep on the couch and everyone else went to bed. Then in the morning I woke up to "WHO PAINTED MY FACE" :D.
From there I went and picked up my fiancee, changed, and showered. Then we drove up to Solvang to meet my friends for wine tasting which was nice but we didn't get to eat and of the neat food they had up there because it all closed so early.





..I'm now a bit sick I think from just doing too much

and sure these music videos most of the time are a bit different but what fun is it to watch a band just play..?