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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
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8:23 pm - It's not all that bad up here....
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| Friday, September 5th, 2008
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9:41 pm - Twitter Tweets
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11:59 am - o/` Your happy welcome is like a favor I must now return./The darkness of my childhood past in flames of love now burn. o/`
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Saturday, August 2nd (or the day we ate a shitload of food (and now that I say that, shitload and food DO NOT belong in the same sentence))
After a nice Indian dinner, we spent the night at Dean's, to have one last day in Austin. We got to meet the newest member of the Dean household, Rocky, a perpetual motion machine/canine mix.
Seen here attempting to be the World's Flattest Puppy. Reach for the stars, Rocky. Reach for those stars.
From there, we had an Open Invitation to Dim Sum for anyone who'd want to come, and lo and behold, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) erinlefey and tangentsferret showed up. We spent a good time with them. We even dragged them home for a bit so Emily could drop off some Coffee Crisps for Marca, who'd grown a taste for them when she went to Vancouver for their honeymoon.
Now to get something off my chest...
I've treated you two badly. When I first moved to Texas, you both blew the doors wide open for me, and welcomed me into your home, literally and figuratively. I enjoyed all the times we had together, and it was great. I appreciated everything you did for me, the chances and opportunities you gave me, and the worlds you opened for me. I'm sorry the last half of our friendship became so sparse. It was and is totally my issue, and one I'm still working on the issue (and it is my issue to get over), and I wanted to tell you both this when you visited, but I couldn't bring myself to do it, and while apologies from 2000 miles away don't mean squat, I hope you can find it in your hearts to forgive me dropping off the face of the Earth as I did.
We said our goodbyes, and with a belly full of Dim Sum, we then began...to get dinner ready. Dean makes four dishes I absolutely ADORE. Mac and Cheese, Hamloaf, Waffles of Insane Greatness and Greek Orzo Salad. Waffles were right out, but Dean was determined to make the other three for dinner, no matter how full we were from Dim Sum.
The problem is, it's hard to find ground ham in Texas, one of the reasons we'd never had Hamloaf in Texas. We'd bought some hams to get ground up, but the store refused to do it, so sadly for our tastebuds (but prolly happily for our waist lines) hamloaf was right out.
Dean spent the day making the Orzo Salad and Mac and Cheese while we played Billion Pin Bowling on his Wii. Dinner was delicious, and we talked and enjoyed the rest of the evening with Dean and Jill before turning in.
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2:23 am
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"I'm watching Dances With Wolves. And as usual, I get the same feeling I get when I write or think about Hanna's tribe. It's a terrible world, with no technology, terrible medicine, and harsh rules of survival. But I'd jump into those tribal worlds in a heartbeat."
The nice thing about Second Life...at least you can pretend. :)
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1:03 am - I discovered Texas one piece at a time. It's time to discover Washington....
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| Thursday, September 4th, 2008
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8:41 pm - Twitter Tweets
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1:59 pm
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12:52 am - That's the bar where I got shot. That's the bar in which I got shot. I think (a) is more common.
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It's hard to think that it's been exactly a month since I left Texas. A full month. It feels like I could just hop in my truck and go home right now. But then I look to the east and see gigantic Mount Rainier staring back at me and the tall pines and evergreens between me and it, and I realize I'm very far away from home. The coolness of the weather, and the real feel of "fall" I haven't felt since I lived in Pennsylvania. Writing this, I'm feeling very homesick, and lonely. I'm a long long way from home, and while my final home is now down the street from me, it feels just as far away....
Friday, August 1st
The last roadtrip in Texas was a shakedown cruise for the pickup, try and make sure there was nothing wrong with it before we hit the road. Little did we know what we'd do down the road. I'd had a place in mind, somewhere I'd never been before and had wanted to see. Something I'd hoped that would wow Emily.
My first trip, though, was to my property in Center Point, Texas. I "own" a half acre of land there...my dad really owns it, but he's given it to me. I gave it back to him before I left, for him to do with it what he'd like. We'd made our way to Comfort where an old roadway that was wiped out in the 1980s had recently been rebuilt. I'd always wanted to drive that closed stretch of road when it was closed and finally got a chance now (No, that wans't the "Wow" thing). We took some pictures of the town, the Union Monument, and made our way to the property.
We entered Center Point, and I took pictures of small little things that meant a lot to me. The Kato's Restaurant (long since gone), a house at the city limits, the convenience store, the old broken down house my parents had planned to buy when we sold nearly all our land in Center Point.
We got to our property, because there was something I wanted to do, that was very important. I found a loose rock with loose topsoil. With four scoops of my hand, I poured it into a cup that I could keep with me, so I'd always have a little bit of Texas with me.
With that done, I took one last look around, and got this panorama - one of the main reason I held onto that land for so long.
Click to take a gigantic big look at a gigantic big view. Gonna miss that view.
From there we moved onto a quick view of Camp Verde for a few shots of the old rest area park and general store there. The General Store has gone from being an actual general store to a tourist trap, but the park is still there. A few pictures and we moved on.
Taking a page from erinlefey, I drove on to a little spot out near Hunt. After turning onto a certain little road, I had Emily close her eyes, I took her by the hand and led her into the middle of this:
A replica of Stonehenge smack in the middle of the Hill Country. We spent some time there, playing around the stones and Papa Moai heads. I was sacrificed to the gods for a safe journey, which prolly is the reason I'm writing this in Washington right now.
We began to head back to Austin, to meet up with Dean, first going through Fredericksburg to Luckenbach. Emily and I had a purpose there, too. Luckenbach is a wonderful little GENUINE town. When you're there, it's a whole nother world. It's a place to relax, to listen to music, enjoy the evening. We played with a cat while music played. And before we left, we gave the town my truck's old license plate, as well as Emily's old plates. They're on a wall somewhere in town. If you ever go there, look for the Texas and BC plates, sitting side by side forever.
From there, we made our way into Austin, to spend the next day with audaciousd, his girlfriend Jill, erinlefey and tangentsferret.
Wow...that entry hurt to write....hurt hard.....
current mood:  very homesick
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12:32 am - I'm not your typical cheap floozie.
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I'm watching Dances With Wolves. And as usual, I get the same feeling I get when I write or think about Hanna's tribe. It's a terrible world, with no technology, terrible medicine, and harsh rules of survival. But I'd jump into those tribal worlds in a heartbeat.
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| Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
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10:57 pm
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9:41 pm - Twitter Tweets
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12:35 am
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Sorry about the insane lack of postage, both here and in Twitter. There's just been SO SO SO much to do, and not enough time to catch up on it all. But in general, here are some points of interest in the last month:
1: A town filled with Robots and Cows
2: Riding on a road where the left side was an hour behind the right
3: Trying to find the Lord of the Flies in New Mexico
4: Lightning storms 70 miles away on the horizon
5: Wigwam Hotel
6: The Continental Divide Storm
7: "That's was wonderful, that was awe inspiring. Let's NEVER do that again."
8: Kamikaze Communist Suicidal Deer
9: The Night LAs Vegas Nearly Slipped Away
10: LAs Vegas
11: Geek ORgasms at the tactical station
12: The Monorail to Nowhere
13: 102 at 9AM
14: 2x2, Animal Style
15: The Interstate that Never Ends
16: The 15 Year in the Making Meetup
17: The moment I nearly didn't leave San Francisco
18: The Overeheat
19: The ICEE guy who yelled at me
20: The other guy who yelled at me
21: The Great Big Sequoyah
22: Moving in with That Famous Webcomicker
23: Canada, Part 1, aka "WOW."
24: Canada, Part 2, aka "No, really, ma'am, I'm just bringing back Tim Horton's"
25: Drawing with The One Famous Webcomicker, and That Other Famous Webcomicker.
26: Mexican Night
27: Visiting Twin PEaks
28: My first ever D&D(ish) game
HUGE MASSIVE MONSTER post coming when I can get a breather. :)
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| Monday, September 1st, 2008
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9:42 pm - Twitter Tweets
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| Friday, August 29th, 2008
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6:10 pm
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1:12 am
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| Thursday, August 28th, 2008
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9:42 pm - Twitter Tweets
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1:29 pm
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If you ever saw Twin Peaks, you know the significance of this:
It really is some Damn Fine Cherry Pie (Yes, its supoosed to be Damn Fine Coffee, but I don't drink coffee...)
Huge entry coming up....
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| Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
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9:41 pm - Twitter Tweets
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| Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
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9:41 pm - Twitter Tweets
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| Monday, August 25th, 2008
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9:41 pm - Twitter Tweets
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calm
