Author: Cj B

So this past weekend was both tons of fun and a total let down! UGH!

So Friday night I went climbing, goods times. Didn’t do a lot, but it was still nice.

Saturday I got up super early and drove up to Malibu to go climbing with the gang. Eric, Rex and Elsie came. She brought some hot new guy. He was straight! 🙁 But totally awesome, into canyoneering, trad climbing, etc. I hope he and I can hang out and do some trad! Awesome!

Did some great climbs. Led a few, cleaned a few, etc. Had to leave early because I had a company picnic to go to. Drover over to that and it was surprisingly fun. I am the new “company photographer”. I took nearly 900 photos there, got some good ones too I think. It was at this nice place in malibu that had a pond, baseball field, pool, etc. They were having a wedding there later and it was a really pretty place for such a thing!

Drove home after that and just relaxed at home.

I couldn’t sleep at all that night. I was excited to get the Bronco back! Got up at 5:30 that morning and just lounged around the house, cleaned up some, did some laundry. Etc. Parents txted me at 8:30am telling me they were in San Bernadino. Which is like 1.5 hours away from me. I figured they’d be there by 10:30 at the latest. But they didn’t show up till just before noon.

Pulled up to the drive way and I went down there… Already I was very unhappy!

Basically it LOOKs like the only thing he did was put on new wheels and paint. EVERYTHING else looks exactly the same as it did when I sent it to him.. AND to top things off, it stinks like CAT PISS. Apparently he left it in the barn with the top off all winter and the cats lived/pissed/shit in it! WTF!

The paint job SUCKS. I should have just had my mom pick it up and take it to macco. There’s HUGE runs, splotch marks, overspray, etc.

The “new” tires looked like shit. They were all rusty in parts, etc. The bronco is missing bolts EVERYWHERE. There are bolts that hold the hood on, there are bolts that hold the top on, there are bolts that keep the hood from bouncing, there are bolts that hold the molding on the outside… ALL MISSING! WTF. He fucking spent tons of money on just bolts and shit.

I did a quick calculation last night. I can only get back to December online for my account, but I found $5,311 that he spent.. $5,311 ON WHAT! There is no way there is $5k worth of shit done to this fucking truck!

Ugh I was sooo pissed. It doesn’t even look like he WASHED it while it was there, the whole engine compartment, etc is still a disaster. I can’t see ANY new parts on the underside, etc.

Then the best part. So I post on my facebook. “Bronco is back, and I’m pissed”… Deanna (the wife of the guy who’s been working on it). Sends me a message. “I am so sick of this shit”.. And then deletes me on facebook! WTF!

I am just not sure what to fucking do now. I’ve spent nearly $7k total on this thing and it’s no where close to what I want. I quickly found some stuff on LMC Truck and I know that it’ll cost me about another $2,000 in parts to get it looking halfway decent.

I don’t know if I should take it this weekend or not… 🙁

Ugh.
UGH!

John De Renzy called me the other day. It was so cute how excited he is to see me in Oct and to stay at my place! I can’t wait to see him too! I hope the spark is still the same as the last time I saw him!

So yeah. That’s the weekend. Now to just get to THIS weekend and get to Clarks Canyon for some awesome climbing!

Wow, it’s been a while since I updated. It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Two weekends ago we went out to San Jacinto. It was a great trip, for the most part.

Leigh, Sophia, Elsie and Jake kept up with me pretty good. Jake was a little slower. Daniel I’m sure could have kept up, but he was busy trying to get into Ally’s pants. Rex, Joeric and Thea on the other hand were a mess.

Rex and Thea packed way to much shit, including fucking CANNED food! Seriously, that was not in the instructions of things to pack! wtf. So they were super slow and dead by the time they got to camp. We had a good night that evening. I think even I was having some heat stroke though, that night I was shivering and really cold and stuff. Who knows.

Got up the next morning and hiked the 7 miles back. Took me 2 hours. Took them nearly 5 hours! It was all downhill! Rex wouldn’t let anyone else carry his pack, he got back to the tram and basically passed out. Had to call the ambulance and stuff. It was horrible/scary. I felt like shit that it happened to him on my trip! But he didn’t listen and he wouldn’t let anyone else help him. Hopefully he learned a lesson in humility.

Monday morning I had a consultant coming into town. I got up that morning and felt like shit, but knew I had to go into the office to talk to him. Came in, was sitting there in the meeting and suddenly started feeling really hot. Sweating, light headed, etc. He made me go home. lol. By the time I got home, I was freezing. That was my Monday. I went into work on Tuesday and felt better, but still kinda crap. I took the week pretty easy and relaxed.

Friday-Saturday I was supposed to go to Bishop and do some climbing, but instead I decided to stay home and take it easy. I went bouldering with Victor, but that was about it. My MythTV box got fried so I’ve been working on rebuilding it. That has not been going very well. About 2 years ago I bought this PCHDTV HD-5500 which is DESIGNED to work with MythTV, but it sucks! I cannot get it to work at all.

Sunday I went wine tasting with Sylvia and Daniel. We had so much fucking fun! We went to a few different places this time, Firestone, Epithany, and a few others. Awesome time with those two. “Well spritz your fucking vagina and get me my food!” LOL.

After that I headed over to Denny’s place… and watched some Avatar.

The Bronco should be making a come back this weekend.. Hopefully! Fucking A. I am so annoyed with this fucking process. It was supposed to be back last month, but didn’t get finished because he didn’t paint it in time. I told him then that I wanted it back by Sept 1. Now again he waited till the LAST minute to fucking paint it again. So I called him and told him to fucking just take it to Maaco and paint it. So then suddenly he has time to paint it. Said he’d have it to my parents by Sunday night… Now it’s Tuesday and it’s still not done. They are supposed to be coming to LA on Friday! UGh. What the FUCK!

So the whole David in LA thing is on again off again. It looked like he was for sure, then there was no way. Then at 3am Sunday I get a text saying. “I am SO coming”. So I talk to him Sunday and tell him where he needs to fly in and when the good times would be, now I haven’t heard from him since then. WTF. I am seeing so much of Morgan in him recently. He’s all into it one day then the next he’s too busy with his little projects to even realize anything. I’m just really want to see him and have him here… Ugh.

In work news, things have been going OK. I’ve been busy, lots of neat projects. Trying to get some stuff done to show that Navision is flexible and can do what we need it to quickly and easily. I’m not very happy with Matt though. I gave him a simple project to do two weeks ago and it’s still not done. I just don’t get people… I told him he’s spending way to much time online doing non-work things. I gave him a new project to do yesterday and told him it had to be finished by EOB today. We shall see if he gets it done or not.

It’s sad watching people get old. As you know them for many years of their life you can see them slowing down, things hurting more, etc.

When I first started hanging out with Jerry and George they were always the leader of the pack, always the first ones up the trail, the first over the edge, carrying as much gear as they could. Now, only 2-3 years later, George never comes out any more, hip problems keep him from doing much more then a short 1 mile walk. Jerry still comes out all the time and leads with courage and ambition, but I have seen him getting worse over the last year especially.

It’s sad to see his body take this toll, I can’t imagine a day when he stops coming because of his health problems, but I fear that it’s closer then most of us see. Even walking around at Stoney point yesterday he was tripping and falling down on a trail that he takes all the time. And he wasn’t even carrying a pack at all!

It just is so sad to see this happen to people that I care about. I hate getting old!

In other news, the weekend was great. Friday night I went out and saw the movie The Wildest Dream. It was pretty good, more of a documentary then a movie, but still interesting. I’d suggest seeing it in iMax!

We also ate at this indian place which was delicious!

That night Rex came and spent the night, he slept on the couch. Random. We got up early the next morning and went out to canyoneering with the gang. Met up with them, had a great day of doing that. Got to the last waterfall and there was this HUGE group of people below watching me come down. Everytime I’d slip or something they would all yell and scream as if I were going to die! lol.

Left there and came home, napped, had Neil over to hang out. We were going to go to San Pedro, but he got there and was being annoying so I made him smoke out and ended up just watching some movie. I swear the boy is the biggest fucking whore I’ve ever talked to. And I know some WHORES! I don’t know how he does it either because he really is annoying. I’m over hanging out with him.

Went to bed, got up on Sunday and went climbing at Stoney point. We setup potholes, which is fairly easy and I had a tough time on the last move, not sure what was up with that. But then I went and did Vicious and got farther then normal, by about 2 moves. Very strange. I’m still fat and suck at climbing. lol.

Got home from that and fell asleep around 4pm! lol.

Haven’t really talked to Davey much this weekend, he’s been busy at home with the family. I know how it is when you’re back visiting, you are usually very busy. I might call him tonight and chat. I’ve sent him like 4 different weekends to come visit LA. I’m hoping he does one of them at least!

All the sales people are being super bitchy today and I am not approving of it. I want to just email ben and tell him to shove it up his fucking ass. Jackass.

Someone called me at 6am because they couldn’t remember how to log into Navision. Seriously? You do it EVERY FUCKING DAY!

Wow, today I have posts going back a full 9 years… It was interesting to see how things have happened. In this time frame for the last couple years, I lost Constantine, I found Morgan, I started climbing and I’ve had a lot of fun!

This past weekend was great. I went out and saw “Incenption” on Friday night with Peter. It was a great movie. Very interesting. Got home after that and Texted david some. He said he’d call me Saturday morning. Sure enough, I woke up to a txt saying “Good Morning”. I replied back and he called me right after that. We talked for 2.5 hours. Great times. The more I talk to him, the more exciting he is… And the less hopeful I feel that something will work out.

He’s just so far away and he wants to move to Denver. I want to move to Denver, but I doubt that will happen anytime soon. He might be coming to visit. But he’s going to sleep on the couch! WTF! I don’t get this level of prudness.

I went out on a bike ride Saturday with Peter, good times. Just over 20 miles. Then we went and got lunch at this place called Hudson house which was delicious. I went home after that, took a nap and then went to Sirin’s for a light dinner and wine. It was great to catch up with her again.

Went home, went to bed and then went out to hang out with the climbing group on Sunday. Honestly the only reason I went was to see Claudia. I knew I wasn’t going to climb. So when I got there and it was just Jerry, Leigh, Aaron and Jasi, I was a little annoyed. I only stayed for an hour and then went home. Jasi had her fucking camera crew again with her taking all these fucking photoshoots. Ugh. I hate that bitch.

Talk of lots of things coming up. This weekend I am going to go see Wildest Dream, Canyoneering on Saturday, Taste of San Pedro (I need to find a date for this) on Sat night, then climbing Sunday. I hope we go somewhere else then Stoney on Sunday.

Starting to plan a labor day weekend trip, talk of a joint Flame N Flash and Top Out, Rock Bottom Bishop trip in November, etc. Good times.

Need to figure out when the fuck I can go get the bronco!

I’m suppose to have a date with “Chris Brown” tonight… He’s a Long Beach police officer and former Air Force. Seems too clingy already though. Plus we all know I already have my eyes on someone else. But what the hell.

Today I have officially made $500k in my lifetime. $502,224.96 to be exact.

I’ve been working for just about 14 years… Worked 18,426 hours, averaged $27.25/hr.

Paid $146,029.88 in taxes and had an average take home of $27,399.62/year.

Where did all that money go! 🙁