GETTIN' OUTSIDE (THE COMFORT ZONE)

so i went camping last night. Gracia, this girl, invited me to go with her and her friends and i thought, "this might be a good chance to get to know her a little better. ;) she's the one in the brown hat. so we headed out and stopped at the cat's paw for jeager and juice, then filled up gas tanks and we were off. we hit this spot that someone knew about. fairy lake has this little clearing for a fire, big tents and soft ground to sleep under the stars. right on the lake. it was the most perfect camp spot i've ever had the pleasure of being at. hopefully i can take you all there someday.

so we get there and hike around the lake a bit then settle. that's where the photos start: our camp site and the house everyone else slept in. everyone was hella hyped on the jeager and there was plenty. there were hot dogs and ketchup. it is ketchup on Chloe's jeans; and i was NOT the only person that took photos. the people were pleasant enough, but i didn't know them so i was limited to what i could say. anyway, Chloe is the blonde girl, there were two other girls i didn't talk to much, this dude Lao (?) was a funny dude and looked like a young jamie thomas. there was mike and alex and some other dude. one girl had Mirror Pond of Bend, Oregon, and which is now my favorite beer. soo good. whatever. we had a meeting in the forest. that's when things got outta hand for me. spacing out hardcore and then i was over it. i found my sleeping bag in the dark somehow and people were shouting.

morning came and it brought angry skies. it was windy and the fire was warm. i'm quite surprised they didn't start a forest fire: the fire pit was gone and the ground was scorched when i got up. it was kinda sketch, but it was fine in the end. the morning was quite beautiful so i took some photos.

i didn't get accomplished what i set out to do, but it was pretty sick time. i'm serious about how good that spot is.
These photos are a little out of order, but you get the idea. the nice photos were taken the morning after.

YEARS

on the 22nd, i came out of the green room a little sleepy so i laid down at 7. i woke up on the 23rd at 8. nice little 13 hour nap. i slept in my clothes with my contacts in and covered in the days sweat and filth.

it was my b-day but i didn't mention. so anyway, i get out of bed and take an awesome blue skyed shower. what else can you do in the morning but go for a bike ride and get coffee? hit up one cafe to say hi to a person. hit world boards to bs with adam. then visited logan at work and get more coffee. logan was kind enough to work a double so i wouldn't have to work on my special day.

left the hard worker and grabbed my board. skated for a while and then the folks arrived from heltown. dan and angela got me a cake with a drawing on it and a 6er of beer to sip. the parents took my out to santa fe reds for some chow. i brought along my buddy logan as re-payment for his buck-up attitude towards work. ate good. then more skateboarding. alex and bjorn got back from the 10000 lakes so we hit them up and did grinds.

dark time of the day. go home with some boys that want cake. drank some beers in my honor and watched skateboarding things. they took off and i went to bed to get up at 7 and take adam to the airplane parking lot.

work. now home. that's all. it's been so long since i've posted anything.

i think i'll have a meeting and watch a movie tonight.

mom looks at this site every once in a while and it's disconcerting. she asked why it says fuck. i said it's a funny word to use without real reason. whatever. everyone talk on the chat part below. you don't need to be provoked to say whatever's on your mind. brandon told me to have a good birthday and eat a lot of cheese. i guess i did that cause of my chimichonga at dinner.

LONG NECKS AND SUN

killin it in helena has never been so easy. evan and i sat on hill park and drank some beers and smoked cigars. cody and i hang downtown and drink coffee outside on sunny days. i'm gettin money and blowin it on beer and everything seems right.

i went to china man's the other day with evan and the fam. they have a canoe now and we took it out. we did spy things by tipping it over and hiding under it in the water. then we drank more beer. later we took the boat out and paddled around the lake a bit. we got quite a show. on a small desolate beach between china mans and some marina, there was a couple out on the beach partaking in coital maneuvers. and no, there was no mistaking it.

yesterday, cody and i left evan at work and headed out with some girls to the the placer mined beach and drank some beer. they drank some, i drank too much. we got to nikki's and i made my way to the crapper to throw up. it didn't make me feel much better, but the couch did.

i ended up sleeping for three hours, which felt like 20 minutes, and cody and i went downtown to get water. i was still drunk so i talked to people about whatever while eating a bagel.

went home, went to bed.

cool illustration.

MORE NEED FOR SINGLE SPEED

whilst putting the word out that i'm in the market for a new bike, katie Mac hooked me up with a shiny red schwinn from back in the day. it's in pretty good shape but it needs work. i'm currently trying to procure big adam's old two wheeler but plan to "fix" the schwinn.

i'm going to helena on wednesday and staying until the third. i'm gonna work at morning light and sit on hill park everday. bring my guitar, skateboard, and bicycle(s). i think cody's gonna be in town too so we're gonna get wild with a change of scenery. plus, do you know how long it's been since i've seen my boy working? i'm pretty damn excited about it, tell ya the truth.

i heard about this the other day. although i've seen this boy in person, it was like seeing him afresh on the internet. besides being a goofy footer, i'm pleased that there isn't any expected park footy and that he has good cutting edge moves. it seems he learned quick from Johnson and Carrol instead of back lip rail, flip front board rail, nose blu........and so on.

NEW ROOMATE

have you seen the great american zoo? someone in it does a switch tre down a 10 stair.

i recently found that ben folds is really good. i never got with the program until now. bitches aint shit? one of my favorites.

dan and i went to yellowstone. we took a lot of photos but i'll show my top 20 or so:
Longer one
Shorter one

i dont like the slideshow for these photos; instead of dumb point and shoot, i take some pride in these when they don't have pixelated wierdness from it zooming in. but the trip was filled with awesome hikes, animals, good weather, and tasty lunches beside rivers with my feet in the water.

nick went to missoula today and you need to get him those pants and an fssf shirt so he can give them to me. he might give you money if you order him to, but i won't hold your breath.

i might have a new town-mate soon.

BLOUSE

today is Go Skateboarding Day. by mistake, i accidentally asked for today off. i thought i was leaving for yellowstone, but in fact, that's tomorrow. so get out there and do it.

there was a pretty good party at North last night. i sadly don't have photos of it, but what started out as a small barbecue, turned into many skaters, baristas, and cute girls; many many cute girls. but they didn't stay long. some did ask where john was. it seems that some people can comprehend and appreciate the subtleties of sarcasm; but you were sorely missed.

along with having grilled-food-friday, it was also Four-Skin friday. i had my new shirt to represent my loves.

i didn't want Jungle to see this before i gave it to him, but since i'm sharing, you can see my other garment endeavor: The Madam.

have fun today.

PLAYING D&D IN THE GREEN ROOM

kunt.

we had fun today. Cal was here and we played it straight. it was Cal, myself, Bjorn, Nick, and then Will and Cassie came over later. Kyle was there too.

anyway, onies with reiniers and schmidt are real good and going on adventures. i'm sick of typing now so here's the photo albums of the party i had at my house a while ago.

here's 1
here's 2
and here's 3