i guess it was a good weekend to leave town... though the traffic getting out of l.a. was ludicrous, returning to work today as the only person with a new suntan(burn) made it all worthwhile...

spent the weekend in blythe, a small city sitting on the colorado river. wakeboarded, jetskied (the STAND-UP kind, not those sissy sea-do deals...) and just floated down-river for 3 days. it got up to around 105 degrees, which isn't bad when there's a bunch of water nearby, and eons better than the bland mid-60's and cloudy most of southern california had all weekend. i heard it actually sprinkled... (and i write that with a wide grin...)

anyways, wakeboarding was great. another activity that i've been toying with for a few years. getting pretty decent at it too.. a lot can be said about jumping the boat's wake smoothly.. i've jet-skied even less, but enjoy it if not only for how difficult it is... lotta balance/agility issues all over that deal. and we river-floated.. a few times.. start at one place, and just let the current do all the work. quite relaxing (when other boats or sea-do's weren't buzzing the area) and compltely full of skin-cancer potential..

hopefully gonna ride tonite and tomorrow nite.. we shall see. lotta stuff going on, seems like, in my neck of the woods...

all that really matters, though, is that there's yet another trip planned to gordon biersch, tomorrow, and i get to introduce a bunch of friends to my eating domain...