I wanted to go to the UT v Rice @ Reliant Stadium, but the seats were like $60. (I found later that Reliant paid Rice $2,000,000 to move it there from Rice Stadium - where we usually got end zone seats for $10. 50,000 x $40 will pay that off.)
But,… the Austin City Limits Festival had an amazing lineup for the whole weekend, and cost even less.
But,… I am the Sweep Crew Manager for the Lone Star Ride against AIDS, which is next weekend. I really needed to ride the route before hand (it’s changed bit), and other events had delayed me from doing so. So, with a thursday night crew manager meeting I figured I’d spend the weekend in Dallas.
But,… my step-grandmother died, so I needed to attend the serviced Sat and Sun in Clear Lake.
So,… I rode the whole route (7 hours in the car) on Friday. Went to the Rangers game that night with friends in from Chicago. Drove back to Houston on Sat morning. Showered and went to Clear Lake.
Then,… since I was down there, to a going away party for Hackster Bob on Tiki Island. He’s shipping off to Kuwait/Iraq for KellogBrownAndRoot to build a power plant. Sounds like guerrilla fodder to me. Hope he’s fine.
Back from Tiki to Clear Lake, then home sunday night. Long weekend.
Topping it, I smashed my left index finger with a hammer today. It’s my second best typing finger, too. It feels like an overripe grape.
-b
September 23rd, 2003
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Today I had lunch with two cousins (my dad’s cousin’s, their mom’s are twins - so they’re kinda like aunts). We ate at Saltgrass Steakhouse. I got there a bit early, 11:15, and waited for them, by 11:30 there was a parade of people, most driving oversized cars like wildmen, all (except for one 95 year old looking man) had exceptional guts. I’m a bit over weight, but these guys had guts (and they weren’t having a special lunch with their aunts). But, I guess that’s the definition of someone who eats at a steakhouse for lunch (apparently, regularly): overweight.
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July 31st, 2003
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I went today, with my father, step-mother, and grandmother to a ceremony held by the Milam County Genealogical Society and the Milam County Historical Commission. It was in 5 separate graveyards, for 6 different confederate veterans.
The one we attended was in Pin Oak Cemetery near Gause and Milano. It included a confederate battle flag and singing of Dixie but there was not much grandiose bolstering of the Confederacy. And the main ceremony leader made a case for not forgetting history.
There was also a re-enactor dressed in frontier like clothes who brought a vintage cannon that was fired afterward.
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May 19th, 2003
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