LA Bucket List

One of my coworkers is about to graduate and will be heading to New York to start her new life. This leaves her with only three weeks to fully experience Los Angeles, the city, the area, the lifestyle. It got us to thinking about what a person who have to do before he or she lives LA. Here is that list:

• Rob the bank
• Develop a drug addiction
• Join a gang
• Be an extra in a movie, music video or commercial
• Swim in the Pacific Ocean
• Get arrested by LAPD
• See the Watts Towers
• Go to the Getty in Pasadena
• Spend a night in the Beverly Hills Hotel
• Get hit on by a gay person in West Hollywood
• Make friends with a homeless person
• Go to LA Live
• See a concert in the Staples Center
  
• See a Lakers/Clippers/Dodgers game
• Buy something from a store on Rodeo Drive
• Go to a USC/UCLA sporting game
• Wait in line and eat a hot dog from Pink's
• Do a drive-by
• Get stuck in traffic on a Sunday...at 9AM
• Drive on the PCH
• Get in a car accident
• Take a picture with the Hollywood sign
• Walk in downtown LA at 1AM and try not to get robbed
• Rob someone walking in downtown LA at 1AM
• Have an affair with someone who recently celebrated their 18th birthday
• Be in a tabloid for making out with a Hollywood starlet
• Be in a high-speed chase that gets news coverage
• Go to Compton with no real reason for being there
• Go to Disneyland
• Do West Hollywood Halloween
  

Comment with anything that you think needs to be on the LA Bucket List.

Reader Interaction

I appreciate everyone that reads my blog and hopefully I will have more readers in the future. In an attempt to give back to my faithful audience I am asking for a little help. One, I need stuff to ponder; so comment with ideas and I'll start giving my thoughts. Two, I'm not sure when or who I had this conversation with first, but I am in the process of assembling a playlist for baby-making. So tell me your favorite song to do the horizontal mambo to.

Bryson's Birthday Adventure Part 3

This was the most important part of the weekend (other than seeing my grandma).

Bryson's Birthday Adventure Part 2

The adventure in Las Vegas continues. More video to come!

Bryson's Birthday Adventure

I will post my random video diaries from the weekend over the next couple of days. There are a bunch of videos so patience is appreciated.

On the road. Things are starting. Woohoo!

What Happens Here...

What happens when two kids from Sacramento, a girl from Chicago and a girl from Houston descend upon the cesspool of the United States? Mild hilarity and some good times. But first, a note to my four followers (Phi, Brianna, Karen and Stacy)...

I apologize for the huge gap in between posts. I have a list of things that I have meant to put up, but not having internet regularly has made things difficult. Perhaps some retrospective posts are in order. But back to Vegas (that's the cesspool of the United States I mentioned earlier).

In celebration of my 21st birthday, I decided it was only right that I spent it in Las Vegas, Nevada, the place where dreams are realized, lived out and/or crushed all the same day. Planning this trip proved more difficult than I anticipated. I don't know if it was because of the destination or because I have absolutely no experience in planning a trip for more than just myself. But thanks to the efforts of friends we ended up in Vegas.

Rather than try to rehash the weekend's events in any sort of detail, I just post the random video diaries I took for the world's viewing pleasure.

Bryson in Las Vegas...

When $#!+ hits the Fan

One of the greatest things about the information revolution reared its ugly head today at my job. While the ability for data to be stored and recalled at a moment's notice from multiple locations has made the world much more connected, when left unchecked (or in this case, when you leave you instant messenger window open), shit can, and usually will, hit the fan.

It's 7:40AM on Tuesday, August 4th and I'm at work about to start my daily routine of random blog surfing and logging on to Meebo, my web instant messenging service of choice. My boss and I will chat throughout the day about the goingsons in the office; the topics range from the loud chats of coworkers, to the piles of crazy resumes she's received (new blog about that coming), to what we had done the night before. These convos are nothing special and wouldn't warrant any further discussions. Today, however, I wouldn't be at the desk for too long and that meant trouble. The woman's desk who I had been working at was filling in for another coworker that was on medical leave, but when she can back today, there was a trickle down effect that pushed me from my spot and made me errand boy for the office. I was given an assignment elsewhere, but I had left my Meebo window open, with a box containing some chat history from earlier days.

(The rest of this post is being continued on October 3rd)

Needless to say, when the people you are discussing find out what you are saying about them, they are going to be less than happy about it. I am still not entirely sure how mad my coworkers were at me, because no one ever approached me about. Maybe my status as a temp worker made them decide I was not worth the effort, but I found out some of their feelings through my boss. But from that day on, the office seemed just a little more divided.

A word for the wise...either keep your feelings about your coworkers to yourself; or if you really feel the need to share them with someone else, make sure it's not accessible. Lest you run the risk of shit hitting the fan.