November 20, 2005
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desert trip with coworkers last weekend (11/12/05ish). took
friday off to make it 3 days of fun. rode go-carts, an offroad
golf cart, dirt bikes (250, 400, 500cc), a pocket sport bike, atv’s
across desert. shot lotsa guns: an sks, a mauser with 1938
surplus ammo (that is a ridiculously huge and loud rifle), tons of clay
pigeons with a variety of shotguns (12gauge, 16gauge, .410),
miscellaneous handguns (9mm, .357), and for breakfast an AR-15 (aka
“m-16″, my ears rang for 3 days after shooting it after forgetting to
put in ear plugs.) burned everything we could find in huge ass bonfires
at night (aerosol cans etc..).. and also the right half of a magnesium
crankcase from a vw… looked like a huge flare in the fire, ultra
bright looking white light… shot off blue firework looking sparks…
poofed up big when dumped water on it… but actually not all that
amazing… wasn’t quite like “light up the whole desert” like some
people were anticipating… burned for about 15 minutes…
miscellanoues flare shot gun rounds (looked like lil bottle rockets)
… shot propane tanks with flares on them… they’d fly up in the air
in a ball of fire and spin around… and of course… did all this
while basically being drunk for 2 days straight…went to downtown fullerton this most recent friday night because a
coworker had restarted his reggae band / was learning to dj… so about
30 coworkers turned out and we got all drunk and danced around. i
realized i haven’t been to downtown fullerton in like a whole year… a
lot of hte places have expanded/remodeled… back alley is like twice
as big as before.. now several of them are charging cover because
apparantely the asshole firemarshals readjusted the capacity so low
that they can’t make profit without cover. i’d kinda felt like
“oh yeah i go to downtown fullerton a lot”… but then down there…
i’m like damn i haven’t been here in a long ass time… it’s just funny
how things change when yer not looking… time flies. even
friggin best buy that i went to on saturday had things all rearranged
and a new look… i was like “what the hell, when was the last time i
even went to best buy!”went to the USC vs. Fresno State football game last night at LA
colliseum… crowd at 91,000 people… so ridiculous packed in in that
place… USC was real cool before….walked around campus chuggin
beers… they really go crazy for every football game… like mardi
gras or something… fresno state was ranked 17, but they gave usc a
good run for their money… way closer than we thought… the fire
chief for fresno was sitting in front of us yelling “that’s another 1st
down for fresno state!”… it was fun… game ended a lil after 11…
but spent literally an hr parked in the garage not moving an inch just
waiting to get out… we were on the 5th floor and basically the other
floors had to clear entirely before anyone could get out…finished reading ‘scar tissue’ after several months due to a
combination of reading less and less and putting this one on hold… it
was hard to read… it’s basically just a recount of anthony
kiedis’ (lead singer of red hot chilli peppers) constant and ongoing
battle with heroin addiction and his countless binges… after reading
it was just like sick to my stomach with the thought of addiction…
man i needa start working on my own addictions… the whole book
was just like “why can’t this guy just get his shit in order” kinda
tortous frustrating… but hey it’s full of sex drugs and rock and roll
so i had to read it just outta morbid curiosity… beyond just being a
showcase of those things… and an example of horrible heroin addiction
is…. didn’t have much else to offer… but i dilligently chugged
through it after having started it several months ago (and readin other
books instead)…
