It was a beautiful weekend here in Austin. SXSW was the big deal this week, so you had loads of extra people in town from all over the place. I hope no one got a bad taste in their mouths for us. Really it is hard to keep that from happening at some point. There will always be someone who has a little too much fun at some point, Guaranteed.
There was a big Spoon Show across from my building that I should have thought about. People who went said it was great. I saw them building the stage and that was as far as I got with it. I always pass up events at Auditorium shores. Remember last years rally with Obama? I watched from my tower across the river. When will I learn?
I did not take in any shows really either. That’s a bit of a change for me. Zach and I went to Home slice pizza for one of their free shows. We meant to see Joseph Arthur, but when we got there, playing was another band that what I heard of them I actually enjoyed more. For the actual set we came to see the crowd sort of cleared a bit, I assume for better shows in other locations. So we actually got to sit and relax a bit. Yeah, Relax, I knew I was a bad idea! we both fell asleep. Good Show Huh? It was just the singer on stage with his guitar in hand, and a chick playing on some tracks with an electric. Not a very rousing rock show either. I felt old and exhausted. We left early and ordered and got a free pizza due to a mix up. All in all it was nice to be out of the house. Saturday was absolutely beautiful. I didn’t care how sickly I was feeling, I needed to see the sunshine. Earlier that day we went to the park and played with the babies and had a McDonald’s cheeseburgers in all of their horrible goodness. Good day!
Then Sunday was good too. We washed the cars and had more pizza watching family guy getting tips on how to be a great dad. Hope yours was good too.

Man, it has been a while since I have had time to write anything that will be of any interest to read.

It finally got cold enough here to wear an undershirt.

I had a happy and busy thanksgiving. Sandra, Karina’s good friend from CA came out to visit. That was fun for her. We shopped until I dropped and then they would prop me up on a bench and let me people watch while they kept on shopping. The weird thing was they hardly bought anything. You would think shopping the day after thanks giving is dumb except for the raging good deals. Yeah but only brave the rabid throng of shoppers if you know exactly what it is and where to get it and only if you need it. But don’t go shopping the day after and not buy anything. That is like swimming with sharks and paying to do it and you aren’t even a good swimmer. Dumb! Anyhow, I lived and I have some great stories to tell from it.

This one woman in Pottery barn, Ok let me back up you know how free stuff brings out the weirdo’s. And you know those weirdo’s that have a hunch they are weird so they try so hard to act like every one else? There was this, we will call them the simple family. And they were shopping for “furniture for the daughters dorm room at UT” I hear this, heck every one in the pottery barn heard it as the mother wanted to be waited on hand and foot. She even asked the sales boy if he had bottled water, she could drink. He looked amazed. Here stood a 4.5 foot tall lady in red velvet pants a purple care bears shirt, and house slippers with a couple of BIG feathers on a sweat band in her hair. She looked as if there might have been some American Indian in her so I Excused her head bands and thought well maybe I should buy this poor lady a red leather couch and chair with the tax money I am paying her for her fore fathers land. So I am cool with it. She is ok and as unique and I am fine with her being they’re acting as if she might possibly be interested in taking home the floor model of the aforementioned red leather couch. This perception of the weird is Austin and Austin Is good; all flew out the door though when she eyed the chair I was in pretending to be reading a coffee table book. “Get up I said” I must have been looking at the book more than I had remembered because she was now hovering over me and at this point I could tell 2 more things. 1, bathing was not considered cool, and 2 brushing the teeth was not necessary as there were non. I was thinking Listerine. What? Yeah the sales guy mouthed, “I am so sorry” as I looked for an opportunity to do what she was demanding of me. As she was standing right over my chair I could not really move with out knocking her down. Yeah I finally resigned my self to be a hideous elitist. I judged the young woman not UT material and the mom nothing more than a weirdo with no Native American back ground only bad breath and zero manners. Funny thing was I saw these folks 6 more times all over the mall and they were always carrying them selves as if they were heroes fresh off the boat from war that had been won. Heads held high and chests jutting out in pride. I purposed for me to feel better about my self. If these women can then why not me right. And I brush my teeth! Or I have teeth I can brush!

I went to lunch with a friend from work and saw part of the tour de France. Lance lives here in Austin so every one in this little pizza place was cheering when he would be on the screen. Pretty cool. Yes praise Lance, blessed be his name. It was the first time I have been in a place that every one was watching the tube when it was not a tragedy. It felt like a movie, and I was an extra. The pizza went down the right pipe though! This place also has 4 dollar pitchers of Fat Tire. I could live there.

I like big butts and I cannot lie, you other bruthas cant deny…