I lived in Pasadena for a dozen years. That was about 25 years ago, though.
Still, I miss Zankou Chicken, El Pollo Loco, Lucky Boy, and of course In-N-Out.
Pasadena is still very nice.
I like California but of course I don't like the politics. People are great though. People I meet everyday are always great. I like where I live too. I'm only 8 mikes from beaches in two different directions.
I lived in Arizona most of my life though and I do miss Arizona. But that place has gotten so expensive it's crazy.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 11, 2022, 11:20:35 AM
Today I am in South Los Angeles to work on a very large flatbed printer. The place I'm at manufactures marijuana edibles. This place looks like a hospital inside and they have all kinds of things here to extract and make these vapes, and edibles. Pretty interesting.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 11, 2022, 11:23:32 AM
(https://ibb.co/JKFxbH1)
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 11, 2022, 11:29:28 AM
Not sure how to post an image
https://ibb.co/JKFxbH1
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Arlo on July 11, 2022, 11:44:26 AM
The answer is right on the site you posted the image on. There are Embed codes to just copy and paste. Full-image and thumbnail. I removed the first and last bracket from all the codes and pasted them in so you can see it for the picture above it.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 11, 2022, 11:57:21 AM
Ah, thank you!
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Brooke on July 11, 2022, 12:50:43 PM
When I first moved there for school, there was a place in Pasadena called "Old Town". It was run down, with pawn shops, a massage parlor, and boarded-up buildings.
Then it got renovated into a posh area full of restaurants and clubs. It became popular, safe, and thriving, and especially mobbed in the evenings.
I'm glad to know it's still doing well.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: guncrasher on July 11, 2022, 01:04:42 PM
haven't been in old town in years, was always fun. good places to eat and drink a beer.
semp
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 11, 2022, 01:27:00 PM
Overall Pasadena is very nice. There's still a lot of nice areas.
Semp.... Invite me for a beer! I'll buy.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: guncrasher on July 11, 2022, 01:43:47 PM
Overall Pasadena is very nice. There's still a lot of nice areas.
Semp.... Invite me for a beer! I'll buy.
soon, I got to much going on. probably middle of next month. got drs appointments everyday this week. clean my colon Monday, then get my anal glands expressed Tuesday. and so on.
semp.
semp
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Arlo on July 11, 2022, 01:52:04 PM
soon, I got to much going on. probably middle of next month. got drs appointments everyday this week. clean my colon Monday, then get my anal glands expressed Tuesday. and so on.
Got my colon and upper GI scope on Wed. :frown:
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: guncrasher on July 11, 2022, 01:57:50 PM
soon, I got to much going on. probably middle of next month. got drs appointments everyday this week. clean my colon Monday, then get my anal glands expressed Tuesday. and so on.
semp.
semp
Okay, good. Get that colon I'll clean out before you see me. Lol?
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: guncrasher on July 11, 2022, 08:23:05 PM
would you like to explain that before we go have a beer :rofl
semp
LOL!
voice to text mistake! I meant to say good, get that colon cleaned out before you meet me. lol
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: MiloMorai on July 11, 2022, 08:48:15 PM
Why would he require a clean colon, you had your butt plug removed, didn't you?
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: guncrasher on July 11, 2022, 09:02:25 PM
good now that we got that straighten out, here's a hint for make up
https://youtu.be/OYpwAtnywTk
semp
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 11, 2022, 09:09:20 PM
Relax. Just a joke.
Semp, do you play darts or pool? I suck at both but I like to play sometimes for fun. I rarely go to a bar anymore. If I do go to a bar I usually go to a gay bar down the street early in the day and have a margarita and leave.
My girlfriend took me to a regular bar a couple times bit it was kind of uncomfortable for me with the occasional guy flirting - I'm not interested in guys. One time this fat drunk biker type guy was hitting on both of us... like aggressively and I was afraid. Then the guy told my friend -- right in front of me that she was pretty but that I was really beautiful. That was the end of that night. LOL. She jokes about that with me still.,
But anyway. This little gay bar has lesbians. It's owned by a young, beautiful lesbian woman. I'll just sit at the bar and have my one or two drinks and then leave before many people come in. It's my little safe space.
Sometimes girls will ask from my number or play pool with me. It's something for me to do when I get lonely I guess.
Anyway. I used to like to play darts. Cricket is really fun. I'm no good, but my brothers were in a league and they were really good.
But Semp, this is just a friendly thing. I just would like to meet you and have a drink. I'm sure we will get along really well. I'm a fun and likeable person and I like people.
So let me know!
:aok
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 11, 2022, 09:11:21 PM
I think she looks better in a more natural state. Some guys really like the heavy eye makeup. I like a more natural look on girls.
difference between a girlfriend and the one you want to nail for a night. then again what's the difference :cheers:
semp
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 11, 2022, 09:16:14 PM
I'd meet anyone else around the area too. Ack Ack we should meet up at an airshow or something. I'd love to finally meet you and your wife.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 11, 2022, 09:19:41 PM
You know what would be fun? A mini Southern California AH con. Meet somewhere with laptops or PCs and have drinks while we terrorize the MA!
:banana:
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: xbrit on July 13, 2022, 02:21:54 PM
You guys need to come out to Florida, name the airshow and I'll be there to catch up with you. I know you said SCAL but I can't travel too far without my wife just in case she needs anything.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Tig on July 13, 2022, 03:32:14 PM
Nah nah, we oughta arrange an Aces High con here in D/FW at the warbird hangar where I work! I'm sure we could arrange for some event, probably.
Shoot, might even be able to convince Dale to come out, he doesn't live far. I know Dichotomy and a few others are close-ish too. We have a pair of A-26 Invaders, a C-47 Goony Bird, T-37 Tweet, Lockheed Shooting Star, F-86 Sabre, and more, I'm sure y'all would get a kick out of it.
Oh- and all of those planes I mentioned are airworthy, minus the Sabre. :airplane:
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Arlo on July 13, 2022, 03:36:24 PM
Nah nah, we oughta arrange an Aces High con here in D/FW at the warbird hangar where I work! I'm sure we could arrange for some event, probably.
Shoot, might even be able to convince Dale to come out, he doesn't live far. I know Dichotomy and a few others are close-ish too. We have a pair of A-26 Invaders, a C-47 Goony Bird, T-37 Tweet, Lockheed Shooting Star, F-86 Sabre, and more, I'm sure y'all would get a kick out of it.
Oh- and all of those planes I mentioned are airworthy, minus the Sabre. :airplane:
What's wrong with the Sabre? :(
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Tig on July 13, 2022, 03:50:08 PM
Well, this is one of the very last Sabres to be retired. Our Sabre was retired from the Bolivian Air Force in 1994 (crazy, I know!), and has sat derelict since arriving at our hangar. We have a whole extra set of wings and several extra engines, plus bajillions of other Sabre parts, but it's just too expensive and labor intensive for us, a volunteer-run museum, to get it back into the air. So, we ended up just recently selling it to the Smithsonian Institution for the handsome sum of $150K. We'll be giving them a bunch of various parts so they can restore it to static display.
Basically, it gathered cobwebs. But I still get a kick out of climbing into its cockpit.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Arlo on July 13, 2022, 04:04:32 PM
What a shame. Sorry to hear that. Dad's first squadron operated FJs off the Lexington on her last WestPac. He's second from the right top row.
(https://i.imgur.com/PNxYK8g.png)
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 13, 2022, 04:12:24 PM
Well I would love to meet up with any of you guys. An air show or an air museum or whatever it is a cool option too.
Semp.... Is your colon clean yet? If so why don't you invite me? I mean it's not like a date or anything it's just a thing where I'm going to come out there at the bar and kick your bellybutton at darks and buy you a beer! Lol
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 13, 2022, 04:24:17 PM
Milo, maybe I can come to Canada and you can take me for a ride in a race boat. Maybe flip it over and I don't get out.
:rofl
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: MiloMorai on July 13, 2022, 06:07:43 PM
Go to Valleyfield and maybe you can get a ride in this 150mph boat.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 13, 2022, 06:11:31 PM
Nah, that's crazy. Lol. It is amazing how smooth those are on the water. Like they really hug the water. I guess until they don't. Lol.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: MiloMorai on July 13, 2022, 06:30:39 PM
It only appears smooth. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=grand+prix+hydroplane&&view=detail&mid=0588CDCE000D7549B48C0588CDCE000D7549B48C&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dgrand%2Bprix%2Bhydroplane%26FORM%3DHDRSC3
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 13, 2022, 07:05:12 PM
yeah, that looks like a very rough ride. lol.
From looking at them they look remarkably stable though. Pretty amazing. I'd never get in one though.
:bolt:
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: MiloMorai on July 13, 2022, 07:31:59 PM
Boot camp there was fun. Well, more fun than for the Marines on the other side of the fence.
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Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 15, 2022, 12:30:30 PM
Today I'm in a crap part of Southern LA. In my car eating a breakfast burrito from Tam's. Anybody remember Tam's? So good!
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 15, 2022, 12:42:04 PM
I think with this place I'm going to bring my wallet inside. I leave my purse as a decoy but I hide it behind the seat. I usually leave my wallet hidden in the car too but sometimes if I think my car could be towed or maybe even ripped off or something like that I'll take my wallet in with me so I'm not totally screwed. Lol
One time I was at a bowling alley repairing a printer and I left my car door unlocked. Somebody stole my purse. But since my wallet is separated from my purse when I park all I got was some of my makeup. I hope the dude like my makeup. Lol
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: MiloMorai on July 15, 2022, 12:46:53 PM
Seen some videos where someone drops their cell phone and somebody else picks it up. Stuffs it down their pants. Guy had the phone set up to produce high voltage shock. Did they ever dance. :rofl
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: guncrasher on July 15, 2022, 01:55:16 PM
Seen some videos where someone drops their cell phone and somebody else picks it up. Stuffs it down their pants. Guy had the phone set up to produce high voltage shock. Did they ever dance. :rofl
those are fake videos. don't ever think of doing that, if caught you will go to jail.
semp
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: MiloMorai on July 15, 2022, 02:14:57 PM
Seen some videos where someone drops their cell phone and somebody else picks it up. Stuffs it down their pants. Guy had the phone set up to produce high voltage shock. Did they ever dance. :rofl
You should look up the ones where they do that to the bicycles. Were they put something on the seat. Those are great! I don't think they're fake either. And there was one really nasty one, I think it was done in South America. Some guy rigged the bicycle seat to fall down and have the pole from the seat go up the guys but. I mean seriously, that could cause serious damage.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Shuffler on July 15, 2022, 04:40:02 PM
In Texas it is illegal to trespass. I know some of yall do not live behind walls or fences though.
it's illegal everywhere, what you cannot do is booby trap your property, if you want to go to jail and give money away, get a drink or something like that.
semp
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Shuffler on July 15, 2022, 04:45:40 PM
it's illegal everywhere, what you cannot do is booby trap your property, if you want to go to jail and give money away, get a drink or something like that.
semp
Laying cash on the floor in your home with the door open is not a boobytrap. You cannot wire a shotgun to a doorknob to protect a home that has been burglarized. The reason for this is it can be dangerous for anyone who forgot, or did not know it was there. That is a boobytrap.
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: guncrasher on July 15, 2022, 04:58:35 PM
Laying cash on the floor in your home with the door open is not a boobytrap. You cannot wire a shotgun to a doorknob to protect a home that has been burglarized. The reason for this is it can be dangerous for anyone who forgot, or did not know it was there. That is a boobytrap.
laying cash on the floor and you waiting behind the sofa for somebody to come in is illegal. you laying cash because you had your hand full go upstairs to the safe then come down to find somebody inside is not.
semp
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: Eagler on July 16, 2022, 07:29:02 AM
laying cash on the floor and you waiting behind the sofa for somebody to come in is illegal. you laying cash because you had your hand full go upstairs to the safe then come down to find somebody inside is not.
semp
Then its depends on the story you tell the police...
Eagler
Title: Re: How many of you are in Southern California?
Post by: -gg- on July 16, 2022, 11:36:58 AM
You guys need to come out to Florida, name the airshow and I'll be there to catch up with you. I know you said SCAL but I can't travel too far without my wife just in case she needs anything.