Post by ScoutB on Mar 27, 2012 23:26:00 GMT -5
Like any job, mine sucks some days like when I have to go to Youngstown in the middle of winter to calm down an angry customer. My current trip is the flip-side, the kind of trip that makes me love my job. I'm in the land of fruits and nuts and big fake boobies, Los Angeles. I'm here to supervise the rehab of a 23 year old piece of equipment that's been badly neglected for at least the last 10. The plant is in Commerce, a suburb of LA formerly known as Watts (of riot fame) and right next door to East LA. That's not the good part but it is my reason for being here. Now, a person of my ethnicity would have to be naive or suicidal to be caught in that neighborhood after dark. I had to book a hotel somewhere, right? So why not at the beach? Redondo Beach to be specific in a Crowne Plaza overlooking the ocean.
Much to my surprise, Splash has been here before me and has a beautiful restaurant in the hotel.
With such a successful endeavor here it makes you wonder why he also works in a dildo factory in Michigan. Work starts at 06:00 so I get back to my hotel mid-afternoon. Yesterday I went for a nice walk by the wharf and found a nice little bar with 77 beers on tap. My kind of place.
I always wondered what a Smog City Groundwork Coffee Porter tasted like. Now I know.
Last night I ate in a little Japanese seafood place out on the wharf. This was the view from my dinner table.
More pictures around the wharf.
California beach chickens
It's what's for dinner
And finally tonight I found a great seafood place in a marina. The cajun-blackened red drum was spectacular. The view from my table.
The marina.
And get this - they pay me to do this! The drive from the beach to the plant is only 45 minutes in the wee hours of the morning. I get to tell people what to do for 8 or 9 hours and then drive back to my slice of heaven here. Now if only it was a bit warmer so the girls were showing more skin.
Much to my surprise, Splash has been here before me and has a beautiful restaurant in the hotel.
With such a successful endeavor here it makes you wonder why he also works in a dildo factory in Michigan. Work starts at 06:00 so I get back to my hotel mid-afternoon. Yesterday I went for a nice walk by the wharf and found a nice little bar with 77 beers on tap. My kind of place.
I always wondered what a Smog City Groundwork Coffee Porter tasted like. Now I know.
Last night I ate in a little Japanese seafood place out on the wharf. This was the view from my dinner table.
More pictures around the wharf.
California beach chickens
It's what's for dinner
And finally tonight I found a great seafood place in a marina. The cajun-blackened red drum was spectacular. The view from my table.
The marina.
And get this - they pay me to do this! The drive from the beach to the plant is only 45 minutes in the wee hours of the morning. I get to tell people what to do for 8 or 9 hours and then drive back to my slice of heaven here. Now if only it was a bit warmer so the girls were showing more skin.