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Monday February 24th 2003 10:30 AM PST

ok, enough about the earthquake. We drove up to Big Bear Friday night, but the weekend didn't start there. Jon Simon was going to get out of work on time, but he got sucked into a Friday night fuck up. So he hung out at work. Meanwhile John Bell dropped Will off at my house. We all decided that we'd go grab dinner while Jon Simon was workin. We went up to Hamburger Hamlet and watched half of the Lakers Game in the Bar while we were waiting for a table. When we got back to my house we listened to the rest of the game on the radio. Jon Simon arrived shortly after and we piled in the car to go up the mountain. So i think when we left it was about 11:00. Road was clear and Jon drives fast. Jen and I hold on in the back. Heather laughs at us cause we're such wimps. We get up to the house, unload our shit, and drink a few drinks. Everybody was tired from the week so we end up crashing around 2 or 3. I don't really remember at this point. //INSERT EARTHQUAKE HERE// So we pile out of bed cause we knew it was big. We all were thinking that if that was NOT in big bear, then somebody else really got FUCKED. So we pile downstairs to the bottom floor of the house where the computer is. Sorry, but this was also where Jon and Heather were trying to sleep. Heather is from NY and only been out here 5 years, so that puts her in the category of Earthquake Virgin. We didn't see Heather cause she was hiding under the bed covers. Jon could not get out of bed cause Heather was clamped onto his arm digging her fingernails in. So we fire up the computer and hit www.usgs.gov and go to their earthquake maps. So when we see that its right under our feet we all breathe a little easier cause we know we got hit the hardest and we're still standing. //INSERT AFTERSHOCK HERE// So we tried to go to bed. For me i was so damn tired that i just passed out. For a lot of other people it was really damn hard to sleep after being woken up like that. //INSERT A FEW MORE AFTERSHOCKS// So Jen and I woke up around 9 and started running around the kitchen trying to find something to eat. We attempted to make coffee there, but it did not come out exactly the way Jen liked it. So she blamed me. We sit around and eat a little and get a few phone calls from various relatives of the Kesslers. All of them just checking to see that everything is alright. Jon and Steve are already out on the slopes by this time. Jen and I decide that we better just get out and try snowboarding so we start to get ready. //INSERT AFTERSHOCK HERE// Heather wakes up in this one, and Jon is already gone, so she bounces upstairs and says something along the lines of, "FUCK THIS!" So Emmy, Heather, Jen and I all get ready and walk down to the base of Bear Mountain to do whatever. Jen and I promptly get rental boards and sign up for a beginning group lesson at 1PM. (big mistake) They group us with about 30 people and we're off. We start in the parking lot on astroturf. This is already a little hard for me. I am not that flexible so i already can tell i am having a lot of trouble getting up from my ass. We hope into the cattle truck and they drive us up the mountain. The instructors SUCK. They first tell us to get in a circle and then start giving instructions in ONE direction. Hmmm how the fuck are the other half of us going to know WTF to do. Anyway, this is not exactly fun. It takes us way too long between exercises and then amount of attention that we get is so low that we don't even know if we're doing the shit right. I never really feel like i'm in control of the board. I don't fall as much as i expect, but i do not fell comfortable standing up. We i do go down, i go down HARD. But the most painful part is just marching up the slope with one foot in the board. Anyway, after the last "station" they're going to put us on the chair-lift and take us up to the top for one run where the cut us loose. Jen is already fed-up at this point and just pops out of the board and walks down. I'm ready to go up, but Jen's right, Fuck this. I'll have a chance to try this later when i don't have to deal with 5000 people on the fuckin beginner hill and a shitty team of instructors. I think i would have had a better time just going out on the hill alone in the morning and fall on my ass A WHOLE LOT just trying to figure the shit out myself. Anyway, Just as jen and I are marching off the mountain Jon calls on the radio and says he's in the truck. Jen and I run to our locker grab our shoes and grab a ride up to the house in the truck. We take a little time to relax then run out to get some food quick with Steve. Then for the fun. We run over to VONS and load some of Steve's mom's groceries in Steve's car cause they won't all fit in hers. She's already done the shopping for dinner, but we need to do the shopping for drinking. We run into the store and grab about $100 in booze and go back to the house. We fuck around for awhile, play cards, i jump on my computer and drop all my pictures down to my hard drive. Then Brian and Wendy show up. So there's now, Jon Heather Will Pierre Emmy Brian Wendy Jen Me Vicky Mrs Kessler Vicky and Steve. Dinner was GREAT. More vegetarians means more Meat for the Meat eaters. So we stuff ourselves at the dinner table. After dinner we have some birthday cake and open a few presents. At this point Will is almost asleep, so we let him retire while the rest of us bounce upstairs to the BAR. Steve pulls out the book of drinks and away we go. I can't remember all the drinks that were made, but i do remember the Key Lime martinis that Brian made. He brought his own home-made pineapple infused vodka that was fuckin great just by itself. But when he used it to make these martinis... GAWD DAMN. Everybody eneded up drinkin AT LEAST one of these. So the full bottle of vodka was all used by the end of the night. Steve make a few other drinks, but i think the most notable was the "Brain Hemorrhage". Jen and I finally crashed cause we were in so much pain and so tired. //INSERT AFTERSHOCK HERE// I got up to go to the bathroom at 7AM and Brian and Wendy were already packed and out the door. After saying goodbye i was back in bed until about noon. jen got up during this time and drank cofee that was made by somebody who knows how to make coffee and read a little in her book. The rest of Sunday was spent just relaxing and screwig around. Heather took Jen's rental snowboard and boots and did a few runs with Jon and Pierre. jen and i went and walked up the fire road a little and jumped around in the snow. We grabbed some lunch at BLTs down in the "city". It didn't agree with Jen at all so she popped some Alka Seltzer and took a nap. i ran the rental gear back down the hill when Heather got back and then we all just sat around and relaxed. We got in the truck to come back home around 7. Jen got a little car sick on the way down, and I held on as usual. We stopped at Outback Steakhouse in arcadia and had dinner. Then Jon dropped Jen and I off at home where we promptly went to sleep.

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I like how that started off in the past tense, switched to present tense for a while, then switched back to past tense lol. But nice little stream of consciousness entry there :-)

Posted by: Will

well it seems that no matter what the fuck i do with my blog there are always some people that are not happy. no wait, there is always ONE PERSON who is not happy. Thanks for the comment Will, why the fuck do i bother? For a more grammatically correct version of the weekend please read Will's Blog Entry

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