So, here are the pictures from the camping trip. If and when I can figure out where to post video stuff to, I will also shove up some of the video I took of the kids cliff jumping. Anyway, if you have dial-up, click the link, and then find something to do for the next few minutes. There are only 9 photos this time, but still for you poor poor people on dial-up, this could take a while.

( Click here for pictures of the All City Camping Trip )

So, I am back from the camping trip this weekend.

I got some great photos of nature and of cliff jumping. I have them downloaded to my computer, and when I find time (ya right), I will get them uploaded, and posted here. I know I still have to do the Mexico pics also, so maybe I will just do it one evening, and be done with it.

As for the trip it's self, it was mad fun. I got up there around 3:30pm, after a shit for Friday (see below for why). When I got there, Kristin, John, and Erin were there. So, we all chilled for a bit, and had fun. The weather was a little bad, but it passed. It rained but it felt great. I fixed dinner, which was great. We had chicken breasts and corn, and it tasted great.

So, somewhere around 7:30 to 8:30, Ray, and his two girls showed up. Not long after, Al and the COJ group showed up. So, we made a campfire, and talked into the night. It was nice to be away from the city and be up there. We went to bed somewhere around 11pm, and man I forgot how much it can cool off in the Mountains. I ended up sleeping in my car, cus of the number of tents and all that.

Saturday, we got up, fixed breakfast, and went over to the Jemez Falls. Walked and Hiked around there for most of the morning. Went back to camp and fixed lunch and rested a little. After lunch, most of us drove about 3 to 5 miles down the road whale some of the group rode bikes down to the same place. From there, we hiked in about 2 miles, to this place where you can do cliff jumping.

For you non adventure people (much like me), cliff jumping, is jumping off a cliff in to a body of water. A few of our group did jump, and I have some great photos and video of that. I did not jump. It's not that I have a fear of heights or water. I just hate falling. Plus, having to walk 2 miles back was not high on my list also.

So, after the cliff jumping, we went back to camp, and just kicked back for a little bit. Then just as we started to fix dinner, God got pissed or something. lol. A massive storm settled over us, and we had some lightning that hit less then a mile from us. But that too passed, and dinner was great. We built another camp fire, and ate dinner and talked and just had fun. It was great. Our fire also burned hot, really hot. We had flames that were blue in color, which is a sign of something burning hot. So after having to put the fire out twice (cus it was so hot, it rehit its flash point), we hit the sack. Again like the night before it was cold, but made for great sleeping.

So, Sunday morning, we got up, had breakfast and packed up camp. So, Kristin, John, and I took off around 11:30 or there about. We stopped off and got some fry bread and oven bread from the Jemez. Once we got back in town, we stopped off and had lunch before heading off on our own ways. I went to my parents house since it was less then a mile from were we had lunch. I dropped off most of the stuff that I had barrowed. I then went to church, and dropped off some of the other crap. Then finally I went to my place and unloaded my car.

Then after I unloaded my crap, I rested a little, cleaned off my flip flops as they had a bunch of dirt and other crap on them, and took off to the office to do the weekend backups. Then I took off to my parent’s house, and had dinner with them. Now I am back here, just chilling watching TV.

So, now on to my Friday. I swear this Friday was really just a Monday trying to be a Friday. It was the Friday from hell. It started by me getting me getting a call from our alarm company at 6am, that the alarm on our building had gone off and the police were dispatched. So, I run to my office, and make sure everything is ok, and deal with that. Then I run back home around 7am, and shower, and head back to my office. Other things were just going on, and stuff was just being a pain in the ass. I had to finish something’s, and that took much longer then I thought. So, did not leave my office until noon, which is one hour later then I thought. Then I went to buy ice, and head to my house.

I started to load stuff up, when I pulled a very stupid trick. I hit my head hard on the tailgate thing on my Volvo wagon. I hit it so hard, I drew a small amount of blood and it hurt to no end. Also I was running massively late, and I hate that. So then Kathy called, and asked me to pick some stuff up at church. So, just as I was getting to church, Kathy called again and she needed something I had to buy. Which, it's not that I had to buy it, but that I was becoming more and more late.

So I get all my shit, and leave town. I get out almost 2 hours later then I wanted, but after that, the day was all good. So, that was my trip, and now I am thinking about bed.

I wonder about people. I had set my alarm for sometime around 6am, so that I was hoping to get into the office at 7am. Well, my home phone start ringing around that time too. First, you should know, that almost no one calls my home phone. Second, when I sleep, I sleep hard. So, finaly I relize that is my phone, and not my alarm, so I answer it.

It's was our securtiy montering company that we use here at work. They told me that the alarm had gone off, and the police had been dispatched. So that wakes me up really quick. So I shove some clothes on, and get out the door. I drive down to the office & there is no one there. The alarm is not going off anymore, so I enter the building. All of our lights are on, so I run upto my office and look at the security computer.

On the security computer, I see nothing that stands out as a forced entry or anything like that. So, then I look out the window in my office (which over looks our shop floor / wharehouse) and I see no one. So, I asume that someone had set it off, reset the alarm, and was gone. So, get some stuff done, and go to leave close to 7am (cus I needed to shower and stuff). Well, this is when I notice that the alarm has a blinking light on "Zone 3". I could not for the shit of me, make it turn off. Since I thought someone had reset the system, I did not try the reset command. I tried calling PSI (alarm company), but there support office was not open yet. So, its 7am by now, and our guys are starting to show up for work anyway. So, I leave and do not worry about the arming the alarm.

I go home, shower, pack (for camping this weekend), and grab a soda and head for work. I get back in to the office at close to 8 or 8:30am. The blinking light is still on the alarm. So, I get some things done, and then head back down stairs and finaly get around to calling PSI. It figures, but I get the person who is still in training. So, she asks someone, and then asks me "Did you trip the alarm on your way in this morning?" so I tell her that I did get a call from them. So, then she says something I should have tried a long time ago. She asked me to hit the reset sequece. So I did, and it fixed it.

So, this is not the first time one of our smart people have set off our alarm. So, my questions is, is it really that hard to type in the code? My answer is NO. I just think they are lazy and do not worry about it. So, I think at the next company meeting I will have to address this. The part that pisses me off more, it seams its the guys who have been around longer. The new guys, can get that alarm turned off in 5 seconds flat. So, that is just my rant on that.

So that was this early morning, last night sucked more.

I went to wal-mart last night cus I had to get somethings for camping this weekend (like food). So, it's like 9:30 / 10pm, so I am thinking that I should be able to get my crap and get out right? Wrong! The lines at the checkouts were soooo long it sucked. Also, they had about 8 to 10 lines open, so it was just a "Lets all goto wal-mart night", and it sucked. I must have waited 20 min to check out. It felt like the night before christmas or something like that. So I did not get home until 10:30 / 11 pm. Then I did somethings and hit the sack.

So that brings me to my last things:

This weekend. I am going camping with the area Lutheran Churchs youth groups. So this should be fun. I head out today, after I get off work. But what makes this kick ass, is that I am taking a half day. I am soo happy to get out of the metro area, and get away from the modern things. Well, some of the modern things. I am taking my laptop cus there is shit that I need to do, and I will have some downtime today when I get there, so I figure, use the inverter and be done with it.

So, if you try and call me this weekend, and only get my voicemail, or if you send me an e-mail, I will get it, but not until I get back into town. I do not think I will have cell service, but we shall see. So I am happy about this weekend as I think its going to rock.