last night
Thursday, 28. September 2006, 22:54:32
This is my last night in Austin for some time to come and I must admit that I am completely overwhelmed with things to do: ensure insurance coverage (omfg COBRA is expensive), prep the car for sale, pay bills, dinner with friends, pack my bags, and do anything I can to make Susan's life easier over the next month as she tries to sell the house and move our belongings out (this is the amorphously large and tricky part).
My winter boots were supposed to have arrived today, I hope they come before we head North to Oklahoma but should be easy to ship if they don't. The shoe man at REI was quite helpful and talked me out of buying anything they carry - his basic advice: gore-tex hiking boots, not so good for the daily dog walks in slush and snow and freezing rain. Go for a boot with molded rubber that won't crack and lose it's waterproof properties the way treated leather would after even a week of sustained wear.
For my last dinner we're going to Magnolia Cafe. Not a particularly inpired choice and not the obvious tex-mex but over the years I've spent countless hours cramming for exams, talking politics, deconstructing plays, flirting, and just caffeinating there. It's one of the Platonic Ideal forms of the kind of restaurant I call "tattoos and omelettes". Usually 24 hours, these restaurants often feature student crowds, heavily pierced and inked wait staff, local art on the walls, eclectic soundtracks, and an emphasis on homefries/omelettes/enormous pancakes/vegetarian friendly. In Austin, the Omelettree, Star Seeds, Kerbey Lane, Austin Java, and that new one on Burnet all compete with Magnolia for the casual caffeine junky who doesn't mind a mix tape of Janis Joplin/Rancid/Johnny Cash/Bjork with their homefries and harvest omelette with a huge blueberry pancake on the side. Should be good - it's all about the company!
My winter boots were supposed to have arrived today, I hope they come before we head North to Oklahoma but should be easy to ship if they don't. The shoe man at REI was quite helpful and talked me out of buying anything they carry - his basic advice: gore-tex hiking boots, not so good for the daily dog walks in slush and snow and freezing rain. Go for a boot with molded rubber that won't crack and lose it's waterproof properties the way treated leather would after even a week of sustained wear.
For my last dinner we're going to Magnolia Cafe. Not a particularly inpired choice and not the obvious tex-mex but over the years I've spent countless hours cramming for exams, talking politics, deconstructing plays, flirting, and just caffeinating there. It's one of the Platonic Ideal forms of the kind of restaurant I call "tattoos and omelettes". Usually 24 hours, these restaurants often feature student crowds, heavily pierced and inked wait staff, local art on the walls, eclectic soundtracks, and an emphasis on homefries/omelettes/enormous pancakes/vegetarian friendly. In Austin, the Omelettree, Star Seeds, Kerbey Lane, Austin Java, and that new one on Burnet all compete with Magnolia for the casual caffeine junky who doesn't mind a mix tape of Janis Joplin/Rancid/Johnny Cash/Bjork with their homefries and harvest omelette with a huge blueberry pancake on the side. Should be good - it's all about the company!
I guess that's why I didn't consider COBRA when I was sacked in a previous job ... oh.. leather gloves ... I prefer goatskin ones over cowhide . They still stay soft after getting wet with water.
Hmmm.. "because you're mine, I walk the line"
By anonymous user, # 29. September 2006, 17:17:50