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i said i would update with what i did the rest of last weekend, so i'll do that here real quick..
saturday, derek, my parents and i went to the gorge to see REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Foreigner. it was a pretty good concert. i'm not a huge fan of any of those bands, but they all played pretty good. my mom and dad had tickets in the 2nd row, and derek won tickets on the radio so he had 4 free tickets, but they were box seats, and they serve alcohol in the box seats so he couldn't go, so he gave those to his parents. but then the radio station called him back a week or so later and gave him another pair of general admission tickets cuz they said he was the best caller they'd had in a looooong time, so he and i went general admission and had a nice time. like i said, the concert was good but i'm not a huge fan of any of them so it wasn't too special or anything. it was really nice to be able to hang out with derek, though. :) i took pictures, but we were so far away that they're not really worth posting...
after the concert, we went home, and i went to derek's place and spent the night. the next morning, before meeting, derek and i went to taqueria guaymas for lunch. then after meeting, i helped derek load all his stuff (including his huge bass amp :-P) into the back of my tiny car and i drove him down to PLU as payment for the concert we had gone to the day before. :) that was nice. we got there, unloaded all his stuff, and he showed me around a bit. that's the second time i'd been in a dorm and/or a college campus, and really, i don't care for it much. it doesn't feel like it's for me. living in a dorm, with a roomie, not having a kitchen to make food in, and LIVING at school, just does not appeal to me in any way. high school was great. anything more than that..i dunno, it just doesn't speak to me. but derek's having a good time i think. it was really sad though after i finished helping him move the last of his stuff into his dorm.. :( i'd already had to say goodbye once to nicole, and that was bad enough, but feeling the way i did when i said goodbye to derek kinda snuck up on me.. it was probably just the expression on his face in the dim light of the parking lot as i drove away, but it really hurt, and i wasn't ready for that. i'm not ready to say goodbye. i never was, and i never will be. but i guess i have to get used to it; stop living in the past and get on with my own future, the way everyone else it getting on with theirs. :( it's still sad though... does anybody else feel the same way? :-\
i had work monday and tuesday. monday, i worked with brady. as usual, we had a good time. we always have a good time joking and talking about crap like monty python, cars, music, or whatever. he's the only one of the guys that i can talk to all day. at one point i caught him in a moment of prayer to the window cleaning gods, and thought it was funny:
actually he's on the phone, but it looks like it... anyway, also on monday, our boss took the whole crew to Cascade Crags in everett for some lessons in harness and rope safety, which was cool. i guess i never mentioned, that a guy on our crew named roy was working on the roof of a condo complex, cleaning the gutters, and he took a mis-step and fell on his back 3 stories down onto a concrete patio. broke his tailbone, some ribs, punctured a lung, and crushed 5 vertebrae. that was a little over a month ago i think. everyone, including me, was really shook up about it because, well, we knew him, and it could happen to any of us. it's like "hey maybe window cleaning isn't quite as safe a job as we thought it was.." really he should have died. it was so bad. or at least should have been paralyzed or something.. but after a few operations and a month in the hospital, he went to a movie just the other day. now he's been transferred and is in physical therapy. totally crazy. everybody is just amazed at how well he's doing, especially when he should be dead. but anyway, my boss has, of course, been freaking out about safety while we're working on roofs lately, so he took us to this place in everett to get some safety training. they taught us a few knots, how to tie off to anchor points and stuff, and general safety info. i'm not sure how much of it we're going to use, because the bottom line is that it's just always a danger. honestly it's not cost efficient enough to be worth the time it takes to set up, tie off, put on harnesses, and be safe. we wouldn't get as much done and business would suffer. it's really just a risk we're all going to be taking, but no one wants to admit to it yet. all we can do is be conscientious, not take risks, and do our best to be safe. haha but anyway, the climbing place was fun:
like i said, they taught us stuff...that's wes and the guy on the right was our instructor or whatever
this is chaz...if i have any "competition" at work, it's him. but he screws up on the job more than i do. :)
then finally we got to climb. :)
tuesday i worked with kevin, and although i was sick, i managed to have a pretty good day. it's always interesting walking through filthy rich people's houses... we did a $300 job in edmonds and this place was huge, and the guy there had so much expensive crap around the house... really really nice reference speakers in every room that were hooked up to a cd player in the living room, a zenith HD projector and screen in a room of wall-to-wall dvds, 4 telescopes throughout the house (i looked one of them up online and it costs $15k), and there were these gadgets and instruments EVERYWHERE...i didn't know that there were so many ways to tell time. he had a million clocks, all with different ways of measuring and displaying the time. it was insane. books book books on every subject littered the house on tables, bookcases everywhere, just thousands of books, not even including the library he had. freaking awesome. freaking insane, but freaking awesome. the rest of the day was easy. kevin gave me a bonus because he said even though i was sick, i was still working fast and we got through the whole day with time to spare. w00t. and that's it for last week.
arrrrrrg i just remembered...the puyallup fair ends today...i wanted to go again... :( oh well, next year... i just got home from my fourth and final concert of this month. robert plant and the strange sensation @ the St. Michelle winery in woodinville. it was preeetty sweet. most folks probably don't know who robert plant is...he's the lead singer of led zeppelin. and if you don't know who led zeppelin is, you are a fool and a disgrace to humankind and to all that represents good music...or something like that. i still find it hard to believe that he's so old, and although it makes me sad, he can still put on a great show. we were general admission on the grass, so we couldn't see all that well, but it was nice and loud and they played superbly. they opened with the intro to Moby Dick because it just so happens that today is the 25th anniversary of John Henry Bonham's death. *tear* so they played that first as a tribute and in remembrance of a man who changed rock and roll forever, and who was the backbone of the greatest rock and roll band of all time.
anyway, hey one thing about the concert i went to at the gorge on saturday...Jason Bonham, John Bonham's son, was the drummer for Foreigner at that concert. :) so i got to see him play on saturday, then robert plant today. anyway, tonight, they played Thank You, going to california, hangman, hey joe, Black dog, whole lotta love, and a few others, but those were the ones i liked the most. i was really glad they played hey joe. that's my favourite song that plant does. it's a really messed up song, but i like music that forces you to find order amidst the chaos that is bombarding your senses. :) so that was sweet. hahaha, and before the show started, JJ, scott's friend who i went to Pearl Jam with, shows up and sits down right in front of us! his parents had been sitting in front of us the whole time, and he was just getting there. so that was crazy. which reminds me i need to post the pearl jam pics eventually, too. :-P but that was pretty much it for the concert tonight. it was good, but it wasn't very long; there was only one encore. :-\ but all in all a good show. oh the opening band, i think they were called "the sights" were really good. i forgot to go buy their cd.. :-\ oh well.
in other news, i leave for Prague in 13 days... i'm starting to get really excited about it. :) we'll be gone for 2 weeks. all around europe. :-D
ok, one other thing now...
saturday, derek, my parents and i went to the gorge to see REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Foreigner. it was a pretty good concert. i'm not a huge fan of any of those bands, but they all played pretty good. my mom and dad had tickets in the 2nd row, and derek won tickets on the radio so he had 4 free tickets, but they were box seats, and they serve alcohol in the box seats so he couldn't go, so he gave those to his parents. but then the radio station called him back a week or so later and gave him another pair of general admission tickets cuz they said he was the best caller they'd had in a looooong time, so he and i went general admission and had a nice time. like i said, the concert was good but i'm not a huge fan of any of them so it wasn't too special or anything. it was really nice to be able to hang out with derek, though. :) i took pictures, but we were so far away that they're not really worth posting...
after the concert, we went home, and i went to derek's place and spent the night. the next morning, before meeting, derek and i went to taqueria guaymas for lunch. then after meeting, i helped derek load all his stuff (including his huge bass amp :-P) into the back of my tiny car and i drove him down to PLU as payment for the concert we had gone to the day before. :) that was nice. we got there, unloaded all his stuff, and he showed me around a bit. that's the second time i'd been in a dorm and/or a college campus, and really, i don't care for it much. it doesn't feel like it's for me. living in a dorm, with a roomie, not having a kitchen to make food in, and LIVING at school, just does not appeal to me in any way. high school was great. anything more than that..i dunno, it just doesn't speak to me. but derek's having a good time i think. it was really sad though after i finished helping him move the last of his stuff into his dorm.. :( i'd already had to say goodbye once to nicole, and that was bad enough, but feeling the way i did when i said goodbye to derek kinda snuck up on me.. it was probably just the expression on his face in the dim light of the parking lot as i drove away, but it really hurt, and i wasn't ready for that. i'm not ready to say goodbye. i never was, and i never will be. but i guess i have to get used to it; stop living in the past and get on with my own future, the way everyone else it getting on with theirs. :( it's still sad though... does anybody else feel the same way? :-\
i had work monday and tuesday. monday, i worked with brady. as usual, we had a good time. we always have a good time joking and talking about crap like monty python, cars, music, or whatever. he's the only one of the guys that i can talk to all day. at one point i caught him in a moment of prayer to the window cleaning gods, and thought it was funny:
actually he's on the phone, but it looks like it... anyway, also on monday, our boss took the whole crew to Cascade Crags in everett for some lessons in harness and rope safety, which was cool. i guess i never mentioned, that a guy on our crew named roy was working on the roof of a condo complex, cleaning the gutters, and he took a mis-step and fell on his back 3 stories down onto a concrete patio. broke his tailbone, some ribs, punctured a lung, and crushed 5 vertebrae. that was a little over a month ago i think. everyone, including me, was really shook up about it because, well, we knew him, and it could happen to any of us. it's like "hey maybe window cleaning isn't quite as safe a job as we thought it was.." really he should have died. it was so bad. or at least should have been paralyzed or something.. but after a few operations and a month in the hospital, he went to a movie just the other day. now he's been transferred and is in physical therapy. totally crazy. everybody is just amazed at how well he's doing, especially when he should be dead. but anyway, my boss has, of course, been freaking out about safety while we're working on roofs lately, so he took us to this place in everett to get some safety training. they taught us a few knots, how to tie off to anchor points and stuff, and general safety info. i'm not sure how much of it we're going to use, because the bottom line is that it's just always a danger. honestly it's not cost efficient enough to be worth the time it takes to set up, tie off, put on harnesses, and be safe. we wouldn't get as much done and business would suffer. it's really just a risk we're all going to be taking, but no one wants to admit to it yet. all we can do is be conscientious, not take risks, and do our best to be safe. haha but anyway, the climbing place was fun:
like i said, they taught us stuff...that's wes and the guy on the right was our instructor or whatever
this is chaz...if i have any "competition" at work, it's him. but he screws up on the job more than i do. :)
then finally we got to climb. :)
tuesday i worked with kevin, and although i was sick, i managed to have a pretty good day. it's always interesting walking through filthy rich people's houses... we did a $300 job in edmonds and this place was huge, and the guy there had so much expensive crap around the house... really really nice reference speakers in every room that were hooked up to a cd player in the living room, a zenith HD projector and screen in a room of wall-to-wall dvds, 4 telescopes throughout the house (i looked one of them up online and it costs $15k), and there were these gadgets and instruments EVERYWHERE...i didn't know that there were so many ways to tell time. he had a million clocks, all with different ways of measuring and displaying the time. it was insane. books book books on every subject littered the house on tables, bookcases everywhere, just thousands of books, not even including the library he had. freaking awesome. freaking insane, but freaking awesome. the rest of the day was easy. kevin gave me a bonus because he said even though i was sick, i was still working fast and we got through the whole day with time to spare. w00t. and that's it for last week.
arrrrrrg i just remembered...the puyallup fair ends today...i wanted to go again... :( oh well, next year... i just got home from my fourth and final concert of this month. robert plant and the strange sensation @ the St. Michelle winery in woodinville. it was preeetty sweet. most folks probably don't know who robert plant is...he's the lead singer of led zeppelin. and if you don't know who led zeppelin is, you are a fool and a disgrace to humankind and to all that represents good music...or something like that. i still find it hard to believe that he's so old, and although it makes me sad, he can still put on a great show. we were general admission on the grass, so we couldn't see all that well, but it was nice and loud and they played superbly. they opened with the intro to Moby Dick because it just so happens that today is the 25th anniversary of John Henry Bonham's death. *tear* so they played that first as a tribute and in remembrance of a man who changed rock and roll forever, and who was the backbone of the greatest rock and roll band of all time.
anyway, hey one thing about the concert i went to at the gorge on saturday...Jason Bonham, John Bonham's son, was the drummer for Foreigner at that concert. :) so i got to see him play on saturday, then robert plant today. anyway, tonight, they played Thank You, going to california, hangman, hey joe, Black dog, whole lotta love, and a few others, but those were the ones i liked the most. i was really glad they played hey joe. that's my favourite song that plant does. it's a really messed up song, but i like music that forces you to find order amidst the chaos that is bombarding your senses. :) so that was sweet. hahaha, and before the show started, JJ, scott's friend who i went to Pearl Jam with, shows up and sits down right in front of us! his parents had been sitting in front of us the whole time, and he was just getting there. so that was crazy. which reminds me i need to post the pearl jam pics eventually, too. :-P but that was pretty much it for the concert tonight. it was good, but it wasn't very long; there was only one encore. :-\ but all in all a good show. oh the opening band, i think they were called "the sights" were really good. i forgot to go buy their cd.. :-\ oh well.
in other news, i leave for Prague in 13 days... i'm starting to get really excited about it. :) we'll be gone for 2 weeks. all around europe. :-D
ok, one other thing now...