Spent the weekend up in Santa Barbara at the request of Chaos. This was her birthday party – Part 2, this time up at a cabin that she is renting for six weeks up near Lake Cachuma. A great time was had by all – despite the constant buzzing of the bugs and countless mosquito and lord only knows what bites. Alex and Mark even…
July 16, 2002After years and years of waiting, I was finally able to snag Doingworld.com. Ok, maybe not years and years, but since December 1, 1999, I have waited for it to expire. I guess the person neglected to renew it in December and I just now noticed it or it just became available. Either way, I am happy. Back in the 1990’s I wanted the domain…
July 11, 2002I was surprised that on one of the busiest days of the year at the park, people like Shaq and Kobe would decide to come to the park. Can I just say that Shaq is by far, the largest person I have ever seen? I can’t imagine that it was fun for them. When Shaq was on the Matterhorn, he was mobbed as he came…
July 8, 2002I have added more months to the New Daily Update, I now only have about seven more months to go before I can launch the new Update site. Going through April-June 2001 was an interesting experience. There were a few Club Josh projects that have fallen by the wayside (anyone remember the new Jarrepalooza? Me either). The frequency of the Updates has gone way down…
July 4, 2002Ever start something that you think is only going to take a few minutes and then when you look up it has been two hours? That is what happened today with the Gorn pictures. It started out innocently enough when I added the photos for the Gorn visiting the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. Then I started to notice things here and there that needed to…
July 3, 2002After finally getting the bad butter taste out of my mouth, Roger and I managed to make it out to Palm Springs on Sunday. Our goal? To ride the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. Now when I did the research on their web site, I noticed that they had new and improved rotating tram cars. I thought this meant that the cars themselves rotated. As it…
July 1, 2002Another week in the books. Monday night I had a brief celebrity encounter: Full House and America’s Funniest Home Video former host Bob Saget was on Mr. Toad. Tuesday was particularly nice as I spent the entire day on Tom Sawyer’s Island telling people that the caves were closed. Apparently, there are plans afoot to redo most of the island, including closing the caves. Most…
June 28, 2002Another hectic week. Last week, I did not manage a single day off of work, and thus the lack of updates. It was particularly rough since I was rarely at home except to sleep. It also didn’t help that summer is here and along with the warmer weather comes the psychos at the park. I had a near run in on three different occasions with…
June 24, 2002For Father’s Day, Kevin went and jumped out an airplane. I am not sure what the fascination is, but he is the third one in my family to do it. As for me, I can’t even stand at the top of the Matterhorn without getting extremely dizzy, let alone jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I am convinced that our upstairs neighbor is working…
June 17, 2002It has been a hectic few days. Thursday night, I worked a Grad Nite at the Power 106 party at the Festival Arena. There is nothing like the sensation you get when a group of 300 people start to rush you. At one point we even had to clear out the Arena because there were too many people inside (capacity? 1500!). I didn’t get home…
June 16, 2002