Ahhhh vacation. So far so good. Had a very pleasant Christmas up north with my folks and sister. Mellowest Christmas ever I think, which was just the thing. Good food, good gifts, and good times. An added bonus got to see The Two Towers again, and attend a fantastic Christmas eve service the evening before Christmas eve. Unfortunately I had to work Thursday afternoon and Friday so my stay up there was a bit abbreviated.
To keep the ball of fun rolling I headed down to Orange County after work on Friday the 27th to celebrate my friend Josh's 23rd, as well as say howdy to Alaskan Andy and the other assorted folks down there. Started off at the Tustin Brewing Company Josh's choice of venue. Turns out there were about 5 other birthdays from the extended Trinity family all happening so ran into Noel Crawford's entourage, and heard that a bunch of the gang were also congregated at Sing Sing (piano bar in Irvine) for Jason Gierdardo's b-day. I think the city of Tustin should have had a block party for everyone, couldn't be three places at once. Ended the evening up Dave #2's pad, and in between Newcastles shot the computer science with Jonathan Stracker and a special guest appearance of Scotty Randaze's (my former room-mate) Boeing-employed in the same building that my dad worked in sister.
Saturday after lunch, got a nice hike in with Angela, Melissa, Greg, and NAU Kathleen at good old Peter's Canyon. It was a nice change of pace walking its fearsome hills instead of running them as our cross-country team had practiced there regularly in high school. Though being sorta out of shape, we still huffed and puffed a little. Beautiful day though, a murky overcast had me imagining the grassy knolls and marshes of New Zealand or England, or Middle-Earth if you ignored all the dumb tract homes. After the hike got dropped at the traditional Saturday football, and then ended up the day with a good philly cheese-steak dinner with Nicotine Nick, my former room-mate Scotty, and finally got a steady girl-friend Dave. Got a good business idea from Nick in the form of a German themed polka-bar halfway through my sandwich. Hammered out the details, then being a zombie from the late Friday night and hiking, for-goed a party at the Driers, and a gathering at Kyle/Leon's, to crash out to the entire first season of Mr. Show, with B-rahn and Scotty at the Lucero House O' Lovin.
Sunday was errand day and wind-down. Lunch. Ikea run (my apartment is now relatively "complete" in a consumer type way muhahahahah). Coffee, nihilism 101 with Evan, reading Media Virus, talking about head calipers with Josh, and meeting an odd German. Went to 3rd service at my local religous institition and went home. New years is still up in the air. Was thinking about sticking around down south, but nothing was really organized except a self-organizing house-party at Lucero, and something at a acquaintence's apartment in LA. The itch to get back to Santa Barbara was in effect too. The logistics of mega-suburbia gets on my nerves, can't seem to stand more than two-three days of it, so decided to just dredge for stuff back here. Awesome weekend though, I missed hanging with a few folks more or less. No politics there its just being a visitor in Orange County is hard work.
posted by Brent at 12/30/2002 06:30:00 PM | permalink |
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