Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Monday, November 19, 2001
@ Work
Back to the daily grind of work. I've been really busy now since I'm pushing a deadline for my new application. It should prove interesting to see if I make the deadline or not.
Well this weekend was much different for me. Philip, Steven and I went up to Lake Tahoe on Saturday for the night. I stayed at Stevens on Friday night and then we all left around 6 am on Saturday morning. Philip had a coupon for a free night's stay at any Hyatt, so he made reservations for us to stay at the Lake Tahoe Hyatt in Incline Village. It was a really nice place.
We got up to Lake Tahoe around Noon on Saturday. We stopped at a few places along the lake to just take in the scenery and take some photos. We stopped at a local Safeway and picked up some cheese, crackers and wine to have when we were back at the hotel. After going to Safeway, we found the Hotel and since we couldn't check in early we decided to take a drive down to the South Lake. We made it back to the hotel around 2 pm, checked in and had our cheese, crackers, and wine in the room. Around 4:30 Steven headed down to the workout room, Philip decided to take a nap, and I went for a walk down by the Lake front. Since the sun was setting along the lake I went down to take some pictures. I just didn't want to sit in the hotel room. It was pretty chilly out and the air was very brisk. It reminded of being back in the mountains of Pennsylvania. It also reminded me of the holidays by the way the cold air felt and smelled.
When I got back to the Hotel I played a bit in the casino and won a little bit of money. Enough for me to stop and go back up to the room. Steven made his way back and the the 3 of us headed down to the Lone Eagle Grill on the Lake Front to sit and have some drinks. The grill was more of a ski lodge type of restaurant and we sat next to the fireplace in a leather couch just having a few drinks and some appetizers. We stayed for about 2 hours or so just talking and taking it all it. It was a really nice evening. After the Grill we grabbed our bathing suits and our last bottle of wine and headed out to the hot tub. The pool and hot tub were both heated and we enjoyed some wine while sitting outside in the hot tub. It was a lot of fun.
Later that evening we headed down to the casino to try out luck for a bit. Steven only stayed long enough to loose $10 and then he went back up to the room. Philip and I played roulette for a few hours and ended up losing everything we started with. Even though we lost, it was fun to sit and play. I enjoyed myself.
On Sunday we got up, got ready, checked out and then headed up the street for breakfast. We decided to stop in the Tahoe Biltmore Casino for their $1.99 breakfast special. All three of us had breakfast and the total bill came out to be about $7. The food was actually pretty good. You can't beat the Casino restaurant prices. After that we headed back to San Francisco. On the way back we made a brief stop to visit one of Steven's high school friends in Sacramento. She was a total trip. We just sat there and laughed at some of her stories. We stayed for about an hour or so and then headed back to the city. We got in around 6 or so I think and then went down to the Castro to grab a quick drink and some pizza before I dropped Philip and Steven off at home. I headed back to my place and went to bed shortly after. I really needed to get some sleep, which I did.
I feel pretty good today so I'm glad that I was able to get some rest. I had a great time this weekend and I look forward taking more trips like this one.
Well I guess I better get back to work now I have a bunch of things to do today.
