Author: Cj B

This was an awesome trip to Death Valley. Even though we didn’t actually complete any of the things we started out trying to do! LOL

So we headed out there on Friday morning. I picked up JoEric, Althea and Rex. Met up with Jerry, Jake and Sandra at our normal place then drove on out there. Stopped at a few places on the way there, climbed the sand dunes, had some fun and then went to lunch/dinner. Good day. Got to the hotel which was surprisingly nice for being only $50/night!

Jerry got an extra room for no reason. WE had 4 guys, 3 girls, Jerry and then Jake and Sandra. And yet, we got 5 hotel rooms! I was a little disappointed. So we had Nick and myself in a room, JoEric, Althea and Rex in a room, Claudia and Sylvia in a room and Jake and Sandra In a room. Crazyness.

Friday night a group of us went out to the Casino and had a fun time, I didn’t win anything! 🙁 I really don’t understand the draw of slow machines though! Ugh.

Saturday we got up and went over to the Hole in the wall to try and find that huge canyon drop off. Hiked around for about 2 hours and couldn’t find ANYTHING. Ugh. But it was a fun time. From there we went over to the mines, packed up all the gear, hiked in and found that someone had BOARDED up the mine that we always go into! 🙁 And I mean like they have boarded it up good too!

So we drove down to Zabrisky point, hung out for a bit, then drove over to the badwater and watched the sunset. From there we went to get dinner, excellent time of course.

That night we had a little party in one of the rooms. Sunday we got up and headed home. Everyone wanted to go canyoneering, but Jerry had a bumm knee so we just drove back to LA, stopping at a few places on the way back including Fossil Falls.

The whole trip was tons of fun. Lots of making fun of Rex and my Imaginary love, signing cotton eyed joe, dancing, running around, etc. Awesome time all around.

But honestly, this will probably be the last Death Valley trip I make with the group. I think we’ve basically exhausted the things to do out there that are worth it for me.

I feel really bad about Jerry’s knee too. Even since I’ve know him him I can see he is slowing down and not doing as much as he used to. It will be a sad day when he stops coming on these trips, etc.

And with that, I can’t WAIT for the next adventure!

I’m out!

Everyone at my company is HELPLESS! This woman this morning got this massage that says “To Continue you must delete this file. C:\Program Files\…..\file.zup”.. And she called me at 5;30 AM to find out what the problem was! If she had just ASKED the other people around her what to do she could have EASILY solved it herself!

Anyways, meeting last week with GTC vs CIT was great. Got lots done, threw them down, got myself lots of praise and stuff at one point the CEO of the other company said “I feel that if Chris Black had been in charge from the begining we would have gotten a lot more done and we wouldn’t be in this situation now”

So I felt good after that meeting, had the rest of the day at work, friday worked half a day then left to go nap. I got home and between 3 and 4 I got like 10 phone calls IN A ROW. I didn’t answer any of them, they would just call, hang up, call hang up, call hang up. UGH! Drove me nuts. If I don’t ANSWER then fucking leave a message!!!

Saturday we all went out climbing at Stoney point since Jerry was leaving town on Sunday. Had a great time, all the normal people were out there and what not. Leigh and his boyfriend even came! Good time was had by all. Claudia even brought this hot boy Sam out. Damn straight boys! 🙁

Drove home after that and packed up and then drove up to Hollywood to spend the night at Silvia’s house. Had a great time hanging out with everyone up there. Lots of talking and drinking and what not. Went to bed around 11ish and got up at 5:30 the next morning to head to Joshua Tree.

Got out there about 9 and setup everything, did some great climbing, had some great fun, etc etc, Total of 9 people out there which was great! Really was missing Morgan out there that day though! 🙁

Left there about 6pm and drove home, found a car on the freeway that was ENGULFED in flames. It was crazy.. Rex was out there, what a total cutie, we flirted all day, too bad he’s straight! 🙁 Damn these straight boys flirting with me!

Anyways, it was yet ANOTHER epic weekend!!

And on the way home, I got very very sad about being single! I’m so tired of being single! Ugh!

Well, it’s my birthday! Woot… And Friday night…. woot! So why am I not out partying?! I have no idea.

Anyways, I’ve been working 24/7. It’s been INSANE!

Today Morgan randomly IMed me. I haven’t talked to him since Dec 1!! It was really out of the blue.

Last weekend, rock climbing, other stuff, Mexico, Puerto Penasco. Lots of crazy stuff

OMG! Sorry It’s been fucking busy around the office. 12-14 hour days, no sleep, working like crazy. I don’t even have down time at the office any more…

Damn boss being fired and leaving a HUGE mess for me to clean up. Plus tons of stuff is just going on right now, even if the boss HADN’T been fired I’d still be working these hours. El Centro coming online, caborca coming on line.

Anyways, Christmas was fun. Got some neat stuff from the family, hung out with some cool new people. hung out with all the normal awesome old people. Had a redic time out with Mandy and Nic of course. Ended up going home with some random that night. It was a bad idea.

Didn’t even get to see my grandma which sucked! 🙁

Came home from there, worked 3 days in the office and then took off for Vegas with the homos! It was a GREAT trip, minus one thing… The JEWS! I had three jewish friends come out and they basically ruined a lot of the trip for me. Even had to come back home a day early because of them! UGH!. I was sooo pissed. But in the good news I met some awesome new people, including Leo and Tim who I am hoping to go visit up in Bishop sometime in Jan!

Ok. I have to get back to work, leave for Mexico tomorrow! Adios!