Chris Halverson’s Blog

Let’s start this out by saying that getting up at 3AM to travel sucks big time. Wow. It’s taken me a couple of days to get semi-on track again. Thankfully our flights went as planned, on time and no issues. We roll into LA around 11AM on Saturday and head to get the car. After waiting an hour at the Dollar center we finally get our car. I reserved a mid-size car since I need to lug around a snowboard. What did we get? My son calls it the “most homosexual car we could have got”: It’s a purple PT Cruiser. So we jump in our metrosexual-mobile and make our way down to Huntington Beach for the NPPL Super7 Paintball Tourney. My son loves paintball. So we head down the PCH for what seems like forever until we hit Huntington Beach. I see a Best Western, and since we didn’t have a room for that night, and since it’s across the street from the tourney, we whip in to see if they had a room. Yep. The problem? It was $200/night. Ouch. Well we’re on vacation, right? Whip out the Mastercard and drop our stuff off. We then head out to the beach.

Now, Scott called me out (again) about going to LA and not going to the beach. Well, we went to the beach. Now keep in mind that it was slightly overcast and pretty windy at the beach, but…WOW. Now I remember what’s nice about California: There are hot, half-naked women EVERYWHERE. I’d also like to go on record that I’m all in favor of this “low rise” trend in clothing. Wow.

We watch paintball the rest of that afternoon and then crash at about 8PM PST after being up since 3AM CST. The next day we pay the extortion fee at the hotel and watch more paintball until about noon. We then start heading up to Big Bear. Nothing exciting other than the fact that LA is just freaking huge. I also hate the yahoos who don’t take the turnoffs in the mountains when they are obviously holding up about 10 cars. MOVE OVER DAMNIT!!!

Our townhouse isn’t quite as nice as the one we had last year, but it’ll work. The natural gas oven doesn’t work, and I’m smelling gas, so I’ve got to see about that. I’m still getting used to the time zone changes, mostly revolving around TV schedules. I was able to see the Formula 1 race replay last night, but was so tired I fell asleep halfway through (way to go MS!!). I slept another 11 hours to catch up. I’m feeling pretty good today and am about 90% done with my paper. No poker yet, but that is coming as soon as I get done with my paper.

Poker > Homework

BTW, modems suck. I don’t know how you guys do it.

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