Another day, another dollar

For those of you that live in austin, and like to support local businesses, and like/need to get your haircut, may I recommend Birds of Austin. The music is good, the stylists talented, and it's one of the only places where you can get your haircut by the lead singer of a metal band.

I'm waiting to get my haircut right now, third in line, and since I brought my laptop, I figured I'd post a blog.

First in line and next in line just got called, this may be shorter than I thought.

Other news, today we're having the house inspected. We've put an offer down, and are working on the 7 day option period. I'll post the results later.

I'd like to say that there is much new and exciting that happened since I last blogged. Work has been busy, waking up in the mornings sucks, school has been hectic, and the iPhone is sci-fi.

well, I'm about to be called. Already the sideburns are gone, and I'll be trading the curly frizzy shag that I've had for the last few months for a more clean cut look, hoping for something like Bogart from the Maltese falcon. Though with my trademark thick rimmed black glasses, it may be a little more like buddy holly.

We'll see.

Enjoy your weekend.

good morning sinners

Like the phoenix, I have arisen from the ashes of the blogoshpere. My face is beaten and bruised and sticky, and I have come back to judge you all, and find you all wanting.

Note to self, don't read warren ellis and blog at the same time, at least not until better at being warren ellis.

Thunder and lighting, sounds of rain coming down. Made my first tweet on twitter. Felt dirty. Dog seemed unimpressed. With the tweeting, and the rain.

Work was hectic this week. Very busy. Made a lot of people happy, job feels fairly secure, but in that omg worked lots of OT type way. Needed time among the commoners and the pleabians again. Inspired. Will head to the mountain when things slow down, and come back with my words carved into stone tablets. Or, at the very least, have come up with ideas to keep me busy through the whole summer.

Car alarm somewhat more impressed with thunder than dog was.

Class is going good so far. Public Speaking instructor unsurprisingly brilliant speaker.

Distance learning (different class) good for things like programing, where I'm refining what I already know. Already a week ahead. Go team venture.

This leaves suprisingly little time for life, the site, and blog.

Option period on house. Close on July 7th. Move in july 25th, if all is good.

The lady has purchased a snail lamp....

Sooooooo tired. To early to sleep. Living old man's hours. Will work more on web programming instead.

6 down, two to go

The only people of the nine left without blogs are chris and kai.

I don't count kahlua as people.

Had a class assignment where I had to write how I would make the world a better place. It was for web design, so I advocated absurdism.

Speech will be interesting. Want my book to hurry up and show up. The proff is a damned decent speaker, spent a year interning at the CIA studying terrorist websites.

Had a bit of crazyiness and stress with the house thing. Worked it out. Also managed to find my W2s for the last 5 years, while trying to find last years.

Atending seminars at work. Seems to mainly advocate structure, and order in the life.

Also, don't like getting up at 6:30 for work. I remember when 6:30 was a mythical time that only existed in dark legends.

On the flip side, getting off work at 5 is niiiiiiiice.

This will be a short one, more homework to do. Signed up for 11 hours of class in the fall. Only one more year of this and I'm free, free.

Congrats to the good Dr.

Dr Darby won his bet. Awesome.

I was not even able to meet the once a day posting for a week. 

So what happened on the weekend? 

Well, I went golfing.  For those who don't know, I am not, by any means, a golfer. This was the first time to have ever gone, and I enjoyed the hell out of it, though I wussed out by hole 16 and just hung around with darby and our friend adam (adam is the reason we went golfing. He and his lady are going to get married this weekend and he got a trip to the golf course at a fancy country club as a gift, and was gracious enough to let us come. Side note: Adam got a job at the country club, so there may be more golfings in the future) while they finished the course. 

I came home sunburned and sore in muscles that I didn't even know existed, but I had a great time and will do it again, if the opportunity comes up.

Also decided that at least once a month I will do something that is either new, outdoors, or both. Stagnating inside is a bad thing.

Anyway, back to the trip. Once golf was over, took adam and z out to a little hole in the wall chinese restaurant called China Inn. 

The service was spectacular, the food was well above par (well, golfing weekend. below par? Whatever translates to tasty.) and msg free. (their menu claimed it was msg free, and I saw no reason to doubt them. However, take my recommendation at your own risk. ) Best of all, there was hardly anything on their menu that cost more than $10 (most closer to $6) and they didn't skimp on the portions. Three of us left with pretty heft to-go boxes, and we made fun of the 4th for eating so much, though admittedly, he had a long hungry day. I would give it a 4.7 out of 5

 

One short drive from SA later, that pretty much brought saturday to a close.

Well, except for an almost run to the beauty bar (the ladies went, I passed, because I was about to pass out) and a disney sing along with the kiddos (roommate's friends, I don't actually have kids) that cumulated in a little too much flashing for my taste. 

That brings us to Sunday. 

Sunday was a breakfast brunch at lambert's for another friend's birthday. The ladies got her pretty gifts, and the rest of us just ate a bunch of fancy bbq brunch.  

Lambert's review: The food was good, but the bbq suace was a little sweet for my taste, and by the end of the meal, everything tasted pretty sugary, including the baked mac and cheese.  The wait staff was polite, though only marginally attentive, and rather distant. The hostess seemed to be unable to gasp the concept that a large party would want to sit together, and sat us at one table/booth, and one round table with 2 empty table in between. All that said, the french toast was amazing.  3.9/5

The rest of the day was devoted to looking at houses (which led to a frustrating monday) and star wars battle front, which was fun but frustrating, and will probably lead to an old school review later. 

Today was my first day of working 8-5, a transition I'm making for school. Most of work falls under the hush-hush umbrella (not because of any actual work I'm doing, just because I work for a company that likes to keep things hushed up)  so I'll leave it that. 

Spent any spare seconds I had today rushing around trying to get all the stuff needed for the loan pre-approval so that me an the lady can make an offer on one of the houses we saw sunday. It seemed like everything we gave them led to more stuff being needed, and I hope we can work it out before someone else snatches it up. 

After work was grocery shopping, dishes, laundry, dinner, my pre-assignment for my distance learning, trying to secure my book for my classroom class, and then blogging. Today was a busy, frustrating, and productive day. 

So goodnight blog-o-sphere,  let's hope tomorrow brings good things for all of us.

- F