Rage! Finally!
Rage came on far later than we had originally planned... They got on stage around 11PM and cranked out the jams as if they had never stopped playing. The lyrics, guitar, and timing was all as dead solid as on a CD... Things got a little nuts when some kids climbed a giant tubular scaffolding structure in the center-middle of the crowd, probably about 80 feet off the ground, and were finally "persuaded" to get off the platform by security. It looked like no one got hurt climbing down, but I was convinced that someone was definitely going to eat it hard. Luckily, no drama.
Here's a pic of Rage in action!
And here's another showing the scaffolding structure the kids climbed up onto:
Heading out after Midnight, we miraculously found Bethany's car in a sea of parking lots... luckily, Fan used GPS to locate our car by scientifically determining that we were parked "in the upper left corner of a square on the map" ... Luck was on our side, and it was truly a miracle that we found the car when we did... we still had to bully our way out of the parking lot, even using Fan as a "cell phone" pedestrian screen to give us some room. I maneuvered around a truck that took a bad angle in the gridlock, and from then on out it was "elbows up - side to side" to bust out of there. I started getting tired around the 210 - I5 junction, and passed the keys on to Nam... At this point we stopped at a McDonald's drive thru and struggled to find the gas station next door... ;) After Nam, Fan took the next 3 hour stretch when the sun started coming up, and Bethany took the last one, when we just go onto 152 from I5. At this point, I woke up, realizing I had dropped my Mcdonald's orange juice on bethany's car's floor.... well played. doh!
We somehow got to work a 8:59 AM, beating all estimates, and allowing each of us to get to our respective meetings and interviews for the day... Nam and I cashed out early around 1PM, while the others were troopers through full work days... troopers!
Looking back, it feels like it was an entire week of a weekend, but it was a blast! I was proud of us all for working like a team and all driving at least a couple hours on the stretch home...
We all survived, but Bethany's car now reeks of orange juice, which I have sworn to get cleaned while she's in temecula this week. ahh.. redemption soon!
Here's a pic of Rage in action!
And here's another showing the scaffolding structure the kids climbed up onto:
Heading out after Midnight, we miraculously found Bethany's car in a sea of parking lots... luckily, Fan used GPS to locate our car by scientifically determining that we were parked "in the upper left corner of a square on the map" ... Luck was on our side, and it was truly a miracle that we found the car when we did... we still had to bully our way out of the parking lot, even using Fan as a "cell phone" pedestrian screen to give us some room. I maneuvered around a truck that took a bad angle in the gridlock, and from then on out it was "elbows up - side to side" to bust out of there. I started getting tired around the 210 - I5 junction, and passed the keys on to Nam... At this point we stopped at a McDonald's drive thru and struggled to find the gas station next door... ;) After Nam, Fan took the next 3 hour stretch when the sun started coming up, and Bethany took the last one, when we just go onto 152 from I5. At this point, I woke up, realizing I had dropped my Mcdonald's orange juice on bethany's car's floor.... well played. doh!
We somehow got to work a 8:59 AM, beating all estimates, and allowing each of us to get to our respective meetings and interviews for the day... Nam and I cashed out early around 1PM, while the others were troopers through full work days... troopers!
Looking back, it feels like it was an entire week of a weekend, but it was a blast! I was proud of us all for working like a team and all driving at least a couple hours on the stretch home...
We all survived, but Bethany's car now reeks of orange juice, which I have sworn to get cleaned while she's in temecula this week. ahh.. redemption soon!
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