The Agrinautica

   So yesterday, Thursday, was the much awaited Flogging Molly (& the Vandals) show at the OC Fair. Earlier in the week Allie (Bloomquist) had called to invite me to attend the show with them (her and Amy Bartrum), to which the answer was a firm heck yes. As I was preparing to leave for the show, my friend Hannah (Westergard) called to invite me to the fair with her and her friends that evening.
   When I arrived at the fair both Allie and Hannah were far from ready so it looked like I'd be lollygagging by myself for a bit. However barely had I stepped out of my car then I ran into Jamie, which was awesome because we've been meaning to hang out for awhile but it keeps falling through. She and her friend were awaiting more of her friends so I hung out with them for awhile.
   Unfortunately the Pacific Amphatheatre in which the show was happening had assigned seating by section, and the fascists wouldn't let me sit with Jamie and her friends because I was assigned to a different section. )= So I stood by myself for awhile but then the ubernazi security people told me I had to keep moving as long as I wasn't at a seat -- one couldn't stand around. So then feeling very persecuted and oppressed I slowly paced back and forth while watching the vandals. Shortly however I met up with some other disgruntled youths who were not subjecting themselves to assigned seating, preferring to roam freely along the walk way, and I joined their noble cause of trying to start a mosh pit on the walkway.
   We had some good times but the fact that literally if at any point both our feet were on the ground and not moving at the same time we'd be sternly told to keep moving got pretty old. Eventually Allie and co arrived so I had to leave the nomadic adventurers, but they'd eventually join me and Allie and co.
   So Allie had her boyfriend along, as well as some other guy and Amy and Amy's mother, Dr Bartom (don't dis, everyone thinks she's hip -- she's also a teacher at Villa Park HS incidently). Shortly after we started trying to infiltrate the amphatheatre seating we spotted Alex Hughes, and we all managed to infiltrate that section and hang out with them. Eventually as I said the guys I'd been hanging out with earlier joined us there as well.
   And then Flogging Molly came on and verily they were excellent. It was weird to see them from an assigned seat (we were all standing at our seats the whole time though) rather than somewhere where one could freely rock out and mosh about.
   When "If I Ever Leave This World Alive" came on Allie, Amy and Amy's mom had their arms around eachother and I knew they were thinking about Eric and it was sad. )=

   After the show ended I caught up with Hannah and we hung out for a little while. Also ran into Jessiska (afoxygoddess) exiting the show.


In Bee News
   On Wednesday we responded to a call at the Disneyland Sheraton Hotel. They kept us waiting for twenty minutes and it wasn't until Jeremy announced that we were leaving in five minutes if someone didn't come tell us what was going on there. The Man promptly arrived and explained that he had been meeting with the owner-representatives. He showed us where there had been wasps nests, but painters had already removed them.
   It seems to me that if there's only one person who can tell bee removal people what needs to be done (and he was the only person who could sign our paperwork), and that is the same person who meets with the owner-representatives, the Disneyland Sheraton must have an absolutely cripplingly bottlenecked management hierarchy.

   While waiting in the lobby I read a copy of the Wallstreet journal that was sitting on the desk there. Did you know miners in iron mines make $50 an hour?! Some college students on the East Coast do that as a summer job. They work 16 hour days, but heck, thats $800 a day! I think I have a new plan for next summer.

   Today Jeremy (pictured here hard at work on Wednesday, note his dog) and I stopped at In-N-Out for lunch. There were some punk kids hanging out outside it. I casually took my hat off to itch my head as I passed by and sure enough they were immediately like "hey ghostbuster!" (mohawk = instant punk cred)


Picture of the Day

Returning home from work yesterday I felt compelled to rescue this bee that was drowning in my pool. In retrospect the picture would have been really awesome if I'd been doing a thumbs up. I'll try to recreate it sometime. See also THIS picture of bee buster Bobby on a roof, and THIS picture I took while leaving the fair.

   I've felt all bleah and uncreative all day today. Stupid two entry per day quota ::shakes fist:: I have ideas for megablogistic entries but really don't feel like putting them together. Hopefully I'll recover soon.


   Today I hung out with flyinmonkey and wrong_cow_girl, and three of their friends. I hadn't seen flyinmonkey (Allie) for three years. Like many of my friends down here seem to be, these kids are all doing AA. At least mother (who officially reads this journal now.. frightening) doesn't have to worry about me drinking with any of these people..
   Quotes from this evening which I thought were amusing, but probably are not: "note to self: kill sponsee later," "put the spoon down, relapse king!" -this guy Ken.


Related
   Year Ago Today: GODLITE - hung out with Shasta and then made my first appearance at Diedrichs for the summer, whereupon I probably met Shalane, who'd eventually become one of my best friends.