Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2008
The past few days were spent in Oklahoma visiting the family. I left Austin at 3 AM on Thursday morning and made it up in record time. Very little traffic, and that was the point. Despite repeated pleas to “eat more” by my grandma, I managed to put on four pounds between all the turkey […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2008
It’s animal kingdom around here. When I first moved in, I had three squirrels munching on the oak tree just off my balcony. Then the deer roaming about. Last month there was a pair of bucks walking down by the mail center. This month while walking out to my truck there were four raccoon crossing […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2008
After one of my tires gave up life, I went to NTB at 7:30 on Saturday morning to buy new tires without waiting forever. $762 later I have new rubber. Now my truck must last another 70,000 miles so I can get my money’s worth out of them. The upshot of falling crude prices is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2008
I finally got around to watching Cool Hand Luke. Great movie. Watched part of Giant, couldn’t stick with it. Didn’t go anywhere this weekend, stayed around home doing utterly nothing. So I need to find somebody to teach me horseback riding. Somehow it got in my head this weekend. It sounds far, far more interesting […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 2nd, 2008
Discovery has a new show called Time Warp that is exceedingly interesting. I’ve spent hours watching slow motion videos on YouTube and looked forward to seeing new material. One thing they showed was a hot blonde pole vaulter doing her thing. Tangentally I went looking for pole vaulting photos on flickr and found a very […]
