DAY 1 Saturday, December 3: Throw Brotha From the Porch

I woke up at 5am on Saturday to catch my flight to L.A. I had a layover and connection in Phoenix. While I was deplaning in Phoenix, I recognized one of my old lead men from when I worked at a factory about 4 years ago. He and his wife had been on the flight and were also connecting to L.A. on the same flight, so we sat down and caught up while he had a few drinks and I ate lunch.

When we arrived in L.A. we exchanged pleasantries and went our separate ways. I spent my first afternoon in Orange County, south of Laguna Beach, sitting about 30 yards east of the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH).


This was just up the hill from where I had to sit in OC.

When I finally got off work, drove the hour to my brother’s apartment and got cleaned up, my brother (B), his girlfriend (M) and her little sister (J), and I all went out to Santa Monica, walked around and had dinner and a few drinks. After dinner, we stopped by the local liquor store, picked up some Captain and some Gin and went back to the apartment to finish the job we started at dinner.

Several hours later, we were all a very, very drunk (there are some really funny and embarrassing pictures on the web to prove it, however, only the privileged few of you will get the link). M set the record for pictures taken with her tongue in them, taking 10 in a row, using my camera (I found out when I uploaded my pictures to my computer the other day). There is a bit of video of me trying to throw B off the second story balcony. Funny, how his girlfriend took video instead of trying to stop me. I can't even remember why I did it. One thing I found out, is that it is impossible to watch Ricky Gervais perform stand up while I am drunk. Also, if you wait long enough, the other drunk will forget about not wanting to let you wear sunglasses and set them down, where it is easy for you to get at them.



I love these glasses.

After making a few late night phone calls to wake up The Steph and tell her how drunk we were the others started falling out. J fell out first, M was not far behind, and with M went B, leaving me drunkenly “watching” TV and passing out on the couch. M and B retired at about 2:30am PST and I was not far behind.