Memento

Tricia fell asleep early, so I watched one of my favorite movies... Memento, a DVD I got for Xmas.

El Moro Canyon

Rode El Moro Canyon today with Ian and Steve. It was a short ride, but Steve showed us this really cool single-track trail that winded the hillside while looking over Laguna Beach and the Pacific Ocean. It was pretty awesome.

Rocket Sauce Logo

Played a few hard games of Ultimate. They were really hard because of yesterday's ride.

Ian and I are thinking of making t-shirts with the new Rocket Sauce logo I made for the crew.

Mount Modjeska

Rode the Maple Springs Trail all the way to the TOP of Mount Modjeska baby! (13 miles up, 4500 ft) What a great feeling, although I'm going to feel the business end of that feeling for the next few days. This time it was was with Ian, Bob, Rich and another Bob. The other Bob got two flats on the way down. Rich and I took the single track on part of the downhill and it was so much fun. Too bad I was so damned tired to really enjoy it. I crashed twice. Nothing serious though. Just a few scratches.

Ian and I then went to Trevor's for his kid's birthday party, dropped off their gifts, and chowed down.

Trevor let me borrow SE7EN, one of my favorite movies. T and I watched it. It's a double disk set and I'm dying to see what's on the second DVD.

Venice Beach

We went to Venice Beach today. I haven't been there in a while. It's always a good time.

Royal Tenenbaums

We saw the Royal Tenenbaums tonight. I thought it was absolutely hilarious! If you liked Rushmore, you'll love this movie.

Cool Rider

One of the best pictures I've seen in a while... COOL!!!!

Night-Time Ultimate

Starting the season off a little early with some night-time Ultimate Frisbee. We've played the last few Mondays, fighting with the soccar players and little leaguers for the field. I think we have the lights arranged for the next few weeks. It was a great game tonight.

Here are more details if you're interested.

House Shopping and Ponch

Did a little house shopping today with the Arcuris. Holy crap houses are expensive out here. Not that I didn't know that already, but it really starts to sink in when your looking at them *knowing* that you can't afford them. It sucks!

Ponch was on Space Ghost tonight. It was probably one of the funniest episodes I've ever seen. I love that show.

Maple Springs

Rode the Maple Springs Trail (Mount Modjeska) up to the Main Divide (8 miles up, 3500 ft) this morning with Ian, Bob, Steve and Eric. This was my second time up this trail and I felt great. Having more people to chat with really helped. I thought we were only 2/3 the way up when I saw the Main Divide... What a great feeling. I wanted to keep going to the top (another 1000 feet), but nobody else wanted to.

In the evening, we went to the Rodeo at the Arrowhead Pond. 1st time at a rodeo and I thought it was pretty cool. I was just too damned tired to enjoy it.

Crystal Cove

Rode the Crystal Cove State Park (Laguna Beach), otherwise known as "El Moro". Ian crashed again and banged up his knee and good elbow quite a bit by getting stuck in a rut and thrown about 15 feet. I didn't see it happen but I saw the results and they weren't pretty. Put it this way... El Moro 1, Ian 0.

We did this ride a lot last summer because it's probably the closest. There is this great downhill called "Rattle Snake Ridge" that is pretty much suicidal if you're not careful. Good times!

Movies

Instead of updating this site, I've been watching a lot of movies on our new DVD system...

Movies from the past few weeks:

• The Matrix - DVD


• Mystery Men - DVD - one of our favorites!


• Made - DVD


• Vanilla Sky - theater


• Boogie Nights - DVD


• Jurassic Park 3 - DVD


• Lord of the Rings - theater


• Pearl Harbor - DVD


• Open Your Eyes - DVD - original Vanilla Sky movie


• Bound - DVD


• Count of Monte Cristo - theater