Limericks, tall tales and bears.....oh my!

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Location: Austin, Texas

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. -Mark Twain *note that all the events noted in this blog actually occurred but might be slightly over exaggerated to enhance the story as the author sees fit.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Disco bowling....dancing or bowling?

I like to bowl. I bowl on a team. I enjoy bowling. I am a night person. Putting these short sentences together you can easily make the conclusion that I would like to bowl at night. This is not possible...apparently there is a rule that all bowling allys turn into disco clubs at night. Bowling still takes place but you cant see so whats the point?

We went bowling last night and when we walked it the music was blaring and disco lights were everywhere, i guess i didn't get the memo because i brought my bowling ball and not my skates. Dont get me wrong. I like dance music and i don't even mind listening to it when i bowl...i just dont like the lights out and some high school girl in the lane next to me wearing nothing taking 100000 mins to bowl because she is doing her best impression of shakira before she throws the ball into the gutter.

There is no night besides league nights where you can bowl normal...i guess i will have to wake up early on a Saturday and go during the day.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Bored at work?

Pimp A Nutcracker

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

A fresh start

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I just haven't been in the mood. I have sat down a few times at work and started to write but then something comes up and I get busy with work and when I come back and look at what I wrote I decide its crap and trash it only to start again and have the phone ring.

I had a friend come to town this week just out of the blue. Over night he had decided to move to Austin, start over. He didn't really have anywhere to stay, he called my bro because he didn't even have my number anymore and was just hoping that I would pick up and let him crash at my place. For most of the morning he just drove around checking out the place while waiting for my phone call and when he did reach me he asked what is so cool about Austin? I had talked it up so much and now he was there to check it out.

My mind was a blank slate. I gave him generic answers like 6th Street, Zilker park, and the Lake, but I never do any of those things. I hate 6th street...every time I go down I never have fun. Zilker park is nice if you like volleyball or enjoy flying a kite, I enjoy volleyball but there are closer places to play. In the 15 years that i have lived here I have been to the lake once and that was to fish. I don't really like any of the main things that most people love about Austin. 4th street is nice though. I like going and hanging out and drink a beer at Fados its much less crazy then 6th.

So why do i love Austin so? It cause of the food. We have restaurants that no one else has. Taquiaras Arandinas (spelled wrong), China Wall, Golden Wok, Chueys, Cafe Gelato, Garcias, El Arroyo, Pluckers, Barneys, Taco C, Free Birds, La Margarita, Magnolia cafe, Kirby Lane, That place next to chueys that serves queso fried catfish, Thundercloud, Texandwhiches, The little mexican hole in the wall place i used to eat at before school, and every other little dive that i cant remember off of the top of my head. And what makes all of these places better? They are all only 15 min drive away. Everything in Austin is close. When i lived in Dallas everything was a 30 min drive. I hated leaving the house because i lived so far away from everything. My job is 10 mins away. My parents live 10 mins away. Bowling is 10 mins away. Its fits my laziness just perfectly.

I think It would be fun to start over. Just get up and move, not know where I was going to work or how I was going to find a place to live much less pay for it. I believe that you would find out alot about yourself on a trip like that. I have things so easy, I have a job that I know is secure. I am never going to be making alot of money doing this but who cares? I don't think i could ever just give it up and go? Maybe one day.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

4 new bands to check out

Here are 4 artists that I have recently found on the net and really enjoy there music. Hope you like.

Liam and Me

Annuals

Lily Allen

Princeton

Monday, December 11, 2006

Christmas Mouse Trap!



I love watching Myth Busters. The guys on the show are nutty but you can tell they love what they do, and who wouldnt? They get to blow stuff up and send stuff flying most of the time. In the movie above they are seting up something i have always wanted to do since i played the game Mouse Trap. Hope you like it..

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

The best worst Christmas Carol ever!

It does make it a little bit funnier if its done on purpose and then stinks but I do enjoy a bad Christmas carol on purpose as well. Let me tell you the local radio station has plenty of them. I didn't know God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen could be sung in 12 mins without making up new verses but apparently it can. The link below is a link to a website I read everyday and has the best worst Christmas Carol ever!

enjoy!

Oh Holy Night

You might have to scroll down if he updated his blog today (dec 4 is the day i am talking about)

I wish i new how to just post the song...but alas i am blog retarded.

Monday, December 04, 2006

The many Roads Ill travel while sitting on my couch



I just signed up for netflix and put about 40 movies in the que. All of them are oldies. Most have Bob Hope in them. About a month ago my mom bought for me 2 dvds at the dollar store. I didnt think that the dollar store sold dvds but the one she went to did. One of the movies was The road to Bali and the other was Little Shop of Horrors with Jack Nicholas in it. Little Shop of Horrors was horrible (it was so old the sound was awful and hurt my ears to listen to). I enjoyed The Road to Bali so much i decided to rent every Bing and Bob movie i could. The best way to do that was through netfilx.