The DerfJam Chronicles

So tomorrow I need to take my passport pix so I can renew my passport this weekend. It sucks that I live so close to TJ and now I need a passport. Oh well. We only go there for tacos......the pink kind! Hahahahahahaha. My Mom told me to get my passport done cuz they plan on going to GERMANY in August. They're inviting me to go along....and I bet they will sucker me into paying for all the tix if I do decide to go. Hahaha. My Mom is sneaky like that. I don't care, it's not like I pay rent or anything. But yeah, I think I would want to go. It's just a matter of me being able to get time off from work. The reason for this trip to Germany is cuz my cousin and graduating high school there and we want to be there for here. I want to go cuz she's bound to have some hot German lady friends fresh out of high school and I want to experience the wonders of a European woman. I feel like watching Eurotrip now. "Scotty doesn't know...." Hahahaha. Yeah, European chicks are hott!!!! But since this is a family trip, I doubt that I will be hookin' up with anyone over there.

I hate being sick. From Oct. to Dec. I was sick. I got better around X-mas and New Years but once again I am SICK! I am sick of being sick. Ha. Today I woke up and I couldn't breathe through my left nostril. I also hocked up some brown-ass flem. My throat was hurting but I drank some tea and ate some soup so I feel better. I still have trouble breathing through my left nostril but I can manage. I'm getting hungry since I basically only had liquids(tea and soup) to eat. I'm thinking I should eat more soup during lunch but my stomach wants some rice and meat, preferably chicken. Ha. I eat chicken at least 3 meals a week. I love chicken. Chicken in any form is awesome; fried, baked, grilled, roasted, soup! I enjoy it all. I enjoy eating PERIOD. And I like girls who are down to munch and not afraid to pig out in front of me.

Ok, back to work.

About 2 mins ago, the new supervisor just came up to me and informed me that they are sending me back up to Long Beach this Thursday to do some performance testing. Performance testing is basically when someone runs through a script and records the times it takes for these actions to occur. This is usually 8-10 hrs of super duper fun.......NOT! I was up in Long Beach a couple weeks ago and the facility is nice and all but......Performance Testing can be very frustrating. The servers and systems don't always run smooth and they skew the data. I guess this is what they are looking for and want to find out what is causing delays and what not. Whatevs....I'm getting paid so it don't matter what they tell me to do.

So yesterday I had my first White Castle burger. It was quite delicious but way too small. Two bites and that burger was gone. I've always wanted to try one ever since I saw Harold and Kumar.

Last night I got a messsage from this girl I've been feelin'. Her name is Tatiana and I invited her to go see my old band play this Friday. The two times I was out with her, she would start speaking to me in Spanish. Hahahahaha. I would pick up words here and there but didn't understand everything she was saying. Her reasoning for doing so was because she spoke more Spanish than English and the majority of the people she's around speak spanish too. I think it's kinda sexy when she speaks to me in Spanish. Ha.

So I was going number poo this morning at work and some guy walks in and there's only one stall and one urinal upstairs. When the stall door is closed, it usually means someone is in there. Well, in this case it was me. This dude walks to the front of the stall door and then he looks under. WTF!?! I'm in there buddy!!!!! I see this fool crouching down and then someone else walks in and he immediately gets up. The door is not gonna magically close itself. It's closed for a pretty darn good reason. But whatever, if he saw my penis, he saw it. Nothing I can do now.

My old band is gonna be playing a show next friday and I asked a few coworkers if they wanted to go. One of them responded with "That's a definite maybe." What the hell is a 'definite maybe'? Isn't 'maybe' being uncertain. So they are definitley uncertain. I mean, I'm not angry at the response or anything but I do find it kinda funny. It's kinda like saying a girl is "pretty ugly". Hahahahaha. I just thought I'd share that. Back to my cubicle I go.......

So my Mom wants to go to Barona tonight but I kinda had plans to go to DnB with my coworkers. Earlier in the week I mentioned that we should go to DnB on Friday night and hang out but I was talking to a bunch of my workers and only one has confirmed that she wanted to go but she'll only go if more people go. Everyone else is sketchy. So I'm thinking it aint gonna go down. Oh well, next time. I guess I gotta plan things better.

Pix from Hollywood and the pix from the Porn Convention (Not work friendly!!!!!!) I didn't get great shots from this years Porn Con. cuz I was more interested in getting the free stuff they give out. It costs $75 to get in but you get like $200 worth of free stuff (DVD's, magazines, posters, condoms, lube, accessories, pens, candy, etc) Last year's pix were way better cuz we got there way earlier and all the good stars were still there. But I still had fun. The Hollywood pix are work friendly so peep them anytime.

So me and my buddies have this season of no holds barred. No rules, no regulations, and no girlfriends. The season will remain un-named due to it's graphic nature but it begins in about a month. I guess it could be considered the opposite of Valentines, in a way. I can't go into much details but it involves debauchery and drunken nights. It started off last year as a b-day gift but the b-day boy declined and everyone else who happened to be celebrating with us took the gift(s). The gift being the gift that keeps on giving. The season is near and I'm looking forward to it......

I'm still feeling the weekend. My body hasn't adjusted to all the drinking and non-sleep and other activities of the night that we did. Break just ended at work and I layed down on the floor next to my cubicle and listened to everyone's footsteps as they passed me by. Hahahahaha. A few of them asked if I was OK and I just looked up at them and gave a thumbs up. My supervisor just laughed.

I think I actually slept 8 hours last night. Let's see, I went to bed around 10pm and woke up at 530am.....but I pushed snooze a couple times and didn't get out of bed til 6am. I used to be at work by 530am which meant I was up at 4am but I'm in party mode and that aint gonna fly. I think I might be stuck in forever party mode. Life is just one big party now and I look forward to waking up next to an unfamiliar face.

I just remembered a conversation me and my friends had in Vegas. It was about being committed in a relationship. I'll write more about it at a later time but some valid points were made and I want to hear a female perspective. Tomorrow. Or later today.

Let's start off with last Thursday......

I woke up at 4am cuz I had to go to Long Beach for work. I drive to my coworkers house at 5am and homeboy aint ready. He told me to be by 5 and he aint even ready. Punkass. Ha. Well, we go and pick up our other coworker in Miramar at 530am and we head on down to LB. We get there around 730ish and go to the building we were supposed to go to. We walk up and no one is parked near it and the building looks abandoned. This is the building where we pick up our badges so we can have all access at the Boeing facility. We looked in the tinted windows and not a soul in sight. I called up the guy we were supposed to meet after we got our badges and I told him of the situation. He came by to where we were at and picked us up and brought us to another badge office. We finally get our badges and start our work around 9am. Our lunch is at 11am but we decided to work through it so we could get done with our work faster and not have to drive in traffic on the way home. Weel, the systems were acting like crap so everything was going by super slow and we didnt even get to finish the work we were doing. We left LB around 2pm and made it back to Miramar at 415pm. We make it back to my coworkers house at 5pm and then I go straight to Ramon's to pick him up for our Vegas trip.

I'm at Ramon's and his Mom asked what we were gonna do in Vegas. We were going there for the Porn Convention but we didn't want to tell her that. So I told her we were gonna go to the clubs and meet alot of sexy women and then get married to them that night. Hahahaha. His girlfriend was right there too. They just laughed and we went on our way without them bothering us about what we were gonna do.

Next stop, I pick up Joel who just happens to live down the street from Ramon. Joel hops into my truck with his PSP in his hand and he's already watching porn. Hahahahaha. We pick him up and then go to get Jay. It was Jay's B-day this weekend so we told my parents we were going to Vegas for Jay's B-day. It was the truth. Hahahahaha.

Well, I guess Joel's friend Jerry tells him about this party up in Hollywood that some sororities were throwing. We decided to go stop by and check that out before we headed to Vegas. The club was called Basque.....I think.

Right when we pulled up in front of the club around 9 or 10pm, there were bitches everywhere. All of them dressed in some booty shorts or short skirts or something hella tight that looked like it was made to fit a toddler. But yeah, the ratio in there was good. It was probably the best ratio I have ever been in. It was 6:1, approximately. The night was good.

We ended up going to a group of the girls' apartment. They all lived in the same area so we were up in there after the club. There was me and 4 of my friends and like 10 girls in one apartment. Everyone was pretty damn drunk except for me cuz I had to drive. Well, it's now 3 am and I'm starting to feel a lil' tired cuz I had woken up pretty damn early for work. What went down in the apartment will not be spoken of.

Going on.....we're driving to Vegas from Hollywood and I am really starting to feel tired. It starts to rain, or so I thought. The rain looked hard yet so light. We look out the window and the plants and trees are covered. It wasn't rain, it was snow. We saw an accident and I was driving fast so I had to brake hard and we skidded for a few feet. That's probably what happened in that accident. The ambulance was there and there wasn't really any cars on the road so the freeway wasn't blocked off. If I didn't see a big rig going 5 mph, I wouldn't have known to stop. I was probably going 70mph.

So we get past that accident and not 30 mins later we see about a mile of cars stopped dead in their tracks. There must have been another accident and they did block off the road until the scenen was cleaned up. We were stopped for maybe 45 mins before we started again. It's now 6 am of Friday morning and might I remind you that I was up at 4am on Thursday. Well, one of my friends who have been sleeping in the car offers to drive since he could see my eyes starting to drift.

I pull over on the side of the road and he takes the wheel. We're almost in Vegas and he's driving for a few miles and someone needs to pee. I'm already asleep at this time but I feel that the car stops so I wake up. I look at the gas tank and it's at 1/4. I fill it up as they go pee and I feel all refreshed and energized. My friends come back to car and they see me sitting in the drivers seat. They ask if I'm ok to drive and I'm all like "Yeah, I just took a good nap". They're all looking at me funny and I say "What? That nap was good. How long was I out?" My friend Jay says we went through two songs on his iPod so that's about 7 minutes. I slept for 7 damn minutes and I felt like I slept for 2 hrs. Hahahahahaha.

Yeah, I took over the wheel and drove to Vegas on my 7 minute nap. We get there and it's pure insanity. Alcohol. Porn. Gambling. Buffets. Football. Pure insanity.

We get home on Sunday morning around and sleep for a few hours and then head on to the stadium for the game. The Chargers lost but I had fun while it lasted.

I'm at work right now, wearing my Chargers gear still, and I would really enjoy it if I got to sleep. Hahahaha. I wanna see the pix on my camera too. I probably took 900 pix in the span of two and a half days. Good times.

So I'm here at work right now trying to load up some objects but since there's like 20 jabillion parts and what not it's kinda frozen. Let's see, it is now 9:59am and I started loading this stuff around 8:10am. I'm hoping that all this waiting doesn't lead to a screen that gives me some error. But enough about that.

Scotty brought in more pix from his party that his roommate took. Shanel is in 90% of all the pix and she's always holding a drink/bottle of Jager. Hahaha. I'll post them up sometime soon. I posted the few pix I took my website.

Oh yeah, April Joy has this foosball table that she's selling and I wanna check it out. I know I don't have room for it in my house but if it looks good, I might buy it and just keep it at a buddy's house. Hook me up with some pix of the table Apes.

So last Saturday my coworker Scott had a lil' party over at his house. The people from CDG that showed up were Nam (with his girl), Shanel, Karmen, Niki (with her man), and Geoff (with his girl). It was a pretty damn good time. Scott and his roommates and friends were all fun people to be around. There was a keg, some Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Jagermeister, and other various forms of whiskey and some tequila. I think everyone there was pretty much hammered. Scott's place is dope cuz it's the total bachelor pad. They got a pool table, beer pong table, a huge tv, and not much furniture. There's even a pool next door and their neighbor must be tight cuz he tore down part of the fence so they have all access to the pool. It's also funny cuz scott and his roommates all have these huge, lifted trucks. It's like a monster truck rally in their front yard.

Scott's potential chick is on that show Veronica Mars. I don't know if she's a character in the show or one of the behind the scenes people. But yeah, she was looking pretty hot and she brought a friend who wasn't bad either. I didn't know Scott needed a wingman so I went on my own conquest with another chick there. I totally would have dropped my conquest cuz I can see her anytime. The friend ended up getting bored and wanting to go home. Bummer for Scott cuz his chick and her friend took off pretty early in the night. My conquest lasted the whole night though. I left the party with her and all the fellas were givin' me the good luck wink when we were taking off.

First thing this morning Scott asked me was "How'd it go?". Hahahaha. I told him I'd tell him all about at break......

Mad props go out to Shanel and Karmen for being stallions and drinking like champs.

So last night me and Fonso filmed (or tried to film) the opening scene to our music video. This is for our song called TUNA. You can find it on the Boston Market page. Well, we were just filming the intro scene which we thought would only take 30 mins or an hour tops. We ended up spending 3 or 4 hours doing it. This scene (when it's done) will probably only last 30 seconds. Every 'take' we were cracking up. I have a newfound appreciation for actors, directors, and film makers. It's hard to keep a straight face all the time. I'll post the video here (and myspace, youtube, etc.) when we're done. Expect it in a couple weeks or maybe a month depending on the Chargers playoff situation.

I still haven't been able to get back to my normal working sleeping schedule. I'm still on holiday sleeping schedule but I wake up at normal working schedule. My body is taking a hit. My back has been hurting since my body is upright for about 18-20 hrs a day. I think I have a pinched nerve cuz every time I take step with my left leg, I feel a little twinge of pain in the lower back right above my ass cheek. I also feel pain right below my ass cheek in the back of my leg in the hamstring area. I hope it's nothing serious. If it's not gone in a week or two I might consider going to a doctor.

I put this big Charger Girls poster on my wall at work and everybody stops by to check it out. I tell everyone (including the females) to pick a top 3. People point out some funny things that I never noticed about the girls. If you look at a poster and it has their names on it, my top 3 Charger Girls are (in no particular order): Ashley B., Lauren, and 3-way tie between Constance, Casie, and Michelle. Moving up the ladder is Ashley M. and Gail.

For the past few months I've been playing alot of music lately. I was playing piano everyday, playing guitar every once in a while, and the drums is always there. Playing the piano was inspiring me to write songs cuz it was something I haven't really done (at least not for a while). I started writing a bunch of songs but I never finished any of them. I would come up with a melody and structure and then I would get stuck. Nothing would fit and I didn't want to force something into it so I'd start working on another song and just come back to it later. Well, this happened for every song I started writing and now I can't even come up with new ideas. I have these songs that are unfinished and I don't know how to finish them.

I'm just gonna put music to the side for a couple weeks and hoopefully when I get back into it, I'll have some ideas. I have these books in my room that I want to read again. They inspired me before and hopefully they can do it again. We'll see.

But yeah, me and Fonso have been hanging out alot again. I miss the days when we would just hang out and do whatever came into our heads. It was the summer going into 11th grade and we hung everyday. That's when we learned how to play guitar. Nobody taught us. We just watch music videos and try to copy what we saw and heard. We'd listen to our cd's and try to figure out the chords they were playing. We'd look online to see if they had music(not tabs) for the songs. We didn't know how to read tabs back then. All we could read was music.....but we didn't know where those notes were on the guitar. To this day, Fonso doesn't know where the notes are. I eventually figured it out but he figured out how to use his ear and determine what the notes sound like. He doesn't know the names of notes but he knows what they sound like and that is the total opposite of me. People who read music don't have as good of an ear as those who just wing it. But I'm still developing my ear(even though the drums ruined my hearing).

One night me and Fonso were hanging out and he wanted to skate and I had my camera so I recorded him and this is what happened.....

I'm Destructive

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The Oldest and Newest members of the Callo family. My grandma is 90 and my nephew is 2 months. They are on opposite spectrums but they are closer than you can imagine. God bless them both.

I got a new website in the works but this time I'm not paying for it so I don't have the capabilities to do what I want. When I was paying for one, I didn't have the time to fully utilize all the options I had. I'm afraid the same thing will happen if I buy webspace again. So I'm using a free account but I'm doing what I can.

I started this website cuz me and my buddy Richard had plans on starting a photography business. We still do but I want to get to know my camera better before we start offering our services. Right now, my website is just me messing around. I don't know if this business will ever start or if it's just wishful thinking on our parts. Whatever though, we're having fun and that's all that matters.

If you want to peep what I'm doing, check it at www.derfjam.com. There's nothing really on it yet. I'm just seeing what I can and can't do and how things might look. Things will change alot but you can still offer some advice, constructive criticism, etc. Firefox doesn't show everything the way I set it up to be. It only shows up on Internet Explorer for some reason. Imma have to figure that one out.

Other things on my mind:
I was thinking of getting a MacBook cuz I was at this party and this guy had one and he was recording stuff with GarageBand and taking photos with the iSight thingy and I was intrigued by it. GarageBand would be useful with me recording my music but I can't justify spending $2000 on a MacBook when I already have a laptop. I would probably only use it to surf the net and record on GarageBand occasionally so I don't think it would be a wise investment for me. I already have recording software for my laptop but I have to hook up all these externals such as my amp, mic, etc. to get it working. I already have all these items but it's just a hassle hooking everything up. Oh well, I'll deal with it instead of spending 2G's.

So we drove up to the Bay area to spend X-Mas with family up there. The drive there was intense. I drove in the thickest fog I have ever seen. Visibilty was about 10 ft, or as how I saw it, 2 reflectors deep. Those reflectors dividing the lanes were the only things I could see. I was just hoping there wasn't a sudden curve in the road cuz the fog wasn't about to slow me down. Just cuz I couldn't see didn't mean I had to go the speed limit. Ha.

But yeah, I got to meet my cousin's fiance' and I also got to see their child, the newest edition to the Callo family. Taylor Callo. He's such a cute baby and already very photogenic at only 2 months. Everyone was waiting in line to get a chance to hold him. I just took a bunch of pix. I'll post a few once I get a chance to upload them.

I love going to the Bay and getting to see my cousin Kevin cuz we have hours of non-stop jamming. Thanksgiving 2 or 3 years ago, we jammed on our guitars for about 6 hours straight. My fingers were hurting like a bitch but he's one of the best musicians I have ever seen so no way in hell do I stop just cuz I can't feel my fingers. I wish he lived here in SD so we could start up a band. But yeah, we only got to jam for about 30 mins cuz he just got a new job and they designated him the bitch who had to work on X-mas.

Oh yeah, the Chargers pulled off another sloppy win. Hey, I'll take a sloppy win over a pretty loss anyday. Philip Rivers continues to amaze me with his ability to shake off poor plays but still come through when it counts. I got my playoff tickets and I'm ready to go. One more game until playoffs......