This weekend I went to Magic Mountain. I bought a season pass at the beginning of the summer and have only been once so far. I figured I better use it since it expires at the end of December. The cool thing about having a pass is it really doesn't matter which day you go because you can always come back for free. This was a pretty good day to go because the park wasn't that busy. All the lines were way short except for Goliath which was an hour. The other thing that was cool is we were only there for four hours and still did everything we wanted. This all brings me to the amazing realization that going to a theme park in the summer is a huge waste of time and money. The extended hours in the summer still can't accomodate for the huge crowds so you still wouldn't be able to ride as many rides. Not only that, but because the off-season hours are shorter (they close at 6pm), you never need to spend any money to eat there. I was at Magic Mountain and literally spent no money and still had a good time. Also, there are few places in the world hotter than Magic Mountain in the summer. The heat had me feeling sick for the rest of the evening when I went last summer, but this time it was nice and cool. It even rained a bit, but I didn't mind. The cool thing about the weather being bad was they shut down that annoying Superman ride that is soooooo loud. Plus when you buy a season pass, you get coupons for things like free parking. You also get a coupon for a free admission to bring a friend. The other weird thing was while we were in line some guy had an extra ticket and just gave it to my friend.

Anyways, I'm all Magic Mountained out, but I'm going one more time when my brother is in town. I don't want that free admission to go to waste. I don't know if I'm older and I notice these things now, or if the park has seriously gone downhill, but the place is a rundown pile now. Sure the rides are good, but it's so dirty around there. It's also ridiculous to see in the summer how many people make out in line. I wonder if these couples ever talk. I was truly annoyed by this one couple because they were right behind me. The guy was really tall and the girl was really short and she was crawling all over him to make out with him. At first, I was really shocked because out of the corner of my eye, I thought it was like a 12 year old kid, but then I saw she had an old face. Anyways, I was annoyed cuz in her climbing on her boyfriend like a monkey, she kept slipping and bumping into me. This time I noticed that nobody was making out in line. So I have a theory, either all the relationships have broken up by this time of the year thus ending their summer flings and Magic Mountain is such a bad memory for them or they are all broke by this time in the year that they can't afford to come back until next summer. Either way, I was glad I didn't have to watch that. I'm curious as to why people have no problem seeing a couple kiss on the movie screen, but when it happens in person, it's really gross. When I'm like 85 years old, me and my wife are going to Magic Mountain and we're going to make out in the line and gross out everybody to teach them a lesson. That'll show'em! Ha ha! Well...maybe not, but it sure is funny to think about.

I started my new job today. There isn't much to say. It took me about 6 weeks to realize that my last job was bogus. I already have a better feeling about this one though. I think they weren't really ready for me to come onboard. They made up a position so they could hire me cuz they really wanted me to work for them. That's ok, I expected this. Things will pick up when the new year starts. The thing I like best about the new job so far is my new cubicle. It's twice as big as my last one and it's got a window. The window faces the best direction too so I can see the city of Redondo Beach as well as the sunset. Not too shabby. I like this deal a whole lot better even if the work is mediocre. The other cool thing is a couple of my friends from another project I worked on sit in the same bay as me. So I have a killer cube and I'm surrounded by friends. That makes a pretty good first day even if I didn't have much to do. The funny thing is the work I did today was still more than I did any other day on my last project. I have a good feeling about working here and at this point I'd rather have a positive ignorant feeling than a negative ignorant feeling. Now I just hope they come through on the promotion they promised me when it comes to performance review time.