Oliver & Company

Our company is rapidly growing. I’ve met some of the co-workers from across the mountains and through the woods from Chicago a while back but a few of them decided to finally ditch the frostbite weather and come to live and work in paradise. I decided to plan a little gathering and show them around a little to give them a taste of what san diego has to offer.

Last night we went out to bar basic for some delicious pizza and beer! definitely a great place to relax and chit chat after a long day at work. After wards i decided to show them Altitude and have a few drinks up on the rooftop.

Final consensus is that everyone had a splendid time.

Season 2 of our “just for fun” league started this wednesday. The vacant spots filled fast and excited for another 16 weeks of bowling. As the new season rolls out we had our meeting to lay down the rules and most importantly hand out our trophies!

i sucked in which i lost bets to heather and rathana at the end of the night. dammit.

A couple of fridays ago, we had a day off of work for our move to the new building. While the movers were moving all our stuff to the new building, we decided to go out and play, rain or shine. We planned out a pacific beach pub crawl starting from longboards and ending at bubs. for the most part we nailed a lot of the bars that were on the lineup.

The list of bars in order:

1. longboards
2. tap room
3. tavern
4. plum crazy
5. johnny v’s
6. bubs

A few notable points of the crawl:

• playing darts and furthest away from the bulls eye gets spanked. Geoff thought he was cool and threw a second time and lost. SPANKAGE.
• pliney the elder – russian river on tap at the tap room
• electronic catch phrase at the bar = a good ol’ drunk time
• friday happy hour at Jonny V’s from 6-10pm. FREE APPETIZER with every drink you buy. 5 drinks = 5 appetizers.
• IT STARTED TO HAIL, for me, i call that snow.
• bubs, eating peanuts and tossing the shell were every the hell you want. i’d hate to be clean up control there.

but coming home and passing out by 10pm = priceless.

After a long and cold morning of filming, a few of the coolest locals (Betsy and Aaron) who helped drive the marathon and half course for the filming, took me out to dinner along with their friends in the french quarter. I just happened to be in new orleans for the “Krewe du Vieux” [krew-doo-voo] parade which they told me was a pre-mardi gras parade known for its wild and adult themes.

As mardi gras started this week, the streets were lined up and filled with party goers alike. It was one of the coolest and random-ist experience ever. it had mardi gras atmosphere written all over it. again all over the streets people yelled and sang their super bowl saints cheer “WHO DAT WHO DAT…”.