Monday, February 24, 2003

nothing new. nothing exciting to report. finally free from most of the snow -- just kinda cold still (duh -- it's winter).

worked the ramp tonight. i actually was able to get my cousin out of the house and out to nation last saturday. it was the 'mardi gras' party -- nothing special but the music was good. song of note was some fierce tribal beat with the whitney houston sample, "crack is cheap". work! :-) going to the edge tonight with some of the guys (and girls) from work. dawn is bartending -- i've promised to visit so many times in the past few months. i HAVE to go!

word has it bluecorp is going to be sent to long beach. kinda dreading it, but it will be nice to be traveling again.

Wednesday, February 19, 2003

finally got the car out of the mound of snow in the metro parking lot last night. it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. yesterday at work was the first 'real' day of operations after the snow storm and resulting cancellations. things worked out surprisingly well. apparently, though, we had TRIPLE ops with all three planes on the ground and in three consecutive gates at once. we survived.

the biggest drama of all occurred last yesterday while trying to get to work. since the car was at the metro station since saturday, i thought i'd just hop on a bus to get to the metro station on tuesday AM. not that easy ... buses were indeed running but on a sunday schedule. i don't get bus service in my neighborhood on sundays. i proceeded to WALK approximately 3 miles in the slush and wet snow. once i got to the train station -- i see the car in all it's glory in the apperance of a big mound of snow. needless to say, i didn't attempt to dig it out just yet. i go straight to the station and wait for the train. i waited and waited and waited ... about 40 minutes. it finally came and i proceeded to rosslyn metro. i didn't get out of the station until about 12:47 -- just a few minutes after it was scheduled. i waited until about 8 minutes after just in case it was 'running late'. IT WAS RUNNING LATE. oh well -- the next one was scheduled to arrive in an hour so i just went on to chipotle to eat lunch. after a yummy burrito, i waited and waited and waited again. the bus never came but what did arrive, though, was the bus coming from the airport. we thought it would turn around but it never did. we waited and waited again for another hour to only find yet another bus coming from the airport. we asked the driver if he was going to turn around -- he said yes and since we were waiting out in the cold for so long, he allowed us to hop on and make the turnaround trip. on our way, finally, to the airport -- the bus literally breaks down just about 20 minutes from the airport. the engine literally stopped working. a replacement bus comes and i finally get to work at the airport a whole 5 hours later. dedication, eh?

Sunday, February 16, 2003

snow. lot's of it! i was working the whole day yesterday dreading the fact that i'd be 'snowed in' at work. luckily it didn't .... yesterday at least. ended up going out to jr's and then to velvet nation with david and tony. i got drunk needless to say. apparently it started snowing shortly after 2:00am. uh, it hasn't stopped yet. now i'm 'snowed in' at david's place downtown. it could be worse, though -- i could be stuck at home in greenbelt without anyplace to go. at least here -- the 7-11 is open and i chowed down on pure crap (a 1/4 spicy bit with chili and cheese)! yum.

Monday, February 10, 2003

hold up -- just reading some past postings ... i seem to have left some details out...

recap on my nyc trip. left on monday morning after a long night out initially with glen and jay at the dugout and then ending up with jay at splash and then estate@limelight. wasn't too impress with dj lydia primm @ splash so we headed on down to limelight where dj victor calderone was working it! true new york clubbing from what i remember back in the day. the voguers were out in full force as well as the 'bridge & tunnel' girls with their stupid boyfriends. it was all good.

after getting back to dc -- found out that we weren't going to west palm beach after all. my whole crew is going to be stationed back here in dulles. not cute -- it was all about the florida sun in the winter time!!! it's okay -- nice to be back home for a change. my fellow travelling companions are liking it here at least. more on them later.
haven't posted anything in days. just getting over a bad cold -- had to work the ramp on saturday. it was cold as shit! of course i had to go out to jr's. didn't get drunk -- that was a good thing. ended up home at around 2:30 am and took like a 30 minute hot shower. went to bed and woke up around 1:00pm. watched the osbournes all day. i needed the rest. believe it or not, i was supposed to catch a flight with tony to chicago to go to the closing party for fireball. good thing i didn't have the $$$ -- that damn party was $65! i'm sure it would have been fun. i swear -- i'm not turning into a circuit queen!

ended up at jr's again on sunday night and made up for saturday! :-) bud ice is such a great (cheap) beer! that and a tequila shot and a .... topped of the evening at lizard lounged for the closing 20 minutes. all in all -- a great day off.

today -- i'm chillin again -- mondays are really my 'sundays' -- i really need to clean up my room.