Civilization 4, I’ve been playing for about 24 hours straight now, the new version adds religious doctrines to the game, thus making global empire building or even global diplomacy for that matter a bit more challenging. Separation of church and state, more for church’s sake, I must say. It’s amazing one of the things your [...]
Insightful, clever, intense, deep, happy, sad, depressed all rolled up into one? Meet your daddy, his name is James Mercer of The Shins. I’ll spare the tributes to this wonderful band, let’s just say that in the 1,000 of wanna-be’s in the world of indie rock, this is the tallest blade of grass, and they [...]
What a trip to Jet City! Too bad its officially a week later I’m finally able to catch up. Where to begin, where to begin?! Why not, how bout a picture of me with a beer in my hand, a Pabst Blue Ribbon to be exact. I equate this beer in taste and strange popularity [...]
I once heard you know you are getting old when the phone rings on a Saturday night, and you hope its not for you. That being said, it was no problem staying home to watch The Shins performance on SNL, consider our Austin clan has been going ape sh*t over them as of late. Even [...]
On this day, I sneekily hopped into the Prometric Testing Center and passed my PM* Exam. Sis has been waiting for my ‘braggin blog post’ forever, so here goes. PMI has rigid standards on ‘Codes of Conduct,’ and don’t really mention blogs, so I don’t know what is ethical to post about or not. The [...]
What a day for family bonding, a trip to San Gabriel Park for a stroll, the light saber battles, and random backyard antics, that yet again throws my back into a tailspin. Right by the water, Grant, Meagan and Kman throw up their GQ looks. Later the geese (I think that’s what those things are) [...]
Tonight was my first ‘shopping’ trip since April. I have been travelling with one pair of pants, worn last Thursday, Friday, Sat (while in the rain at the renfest), and today at work (yes, by then the pants were a bit musty and ripe). Still not having touched home base and heading to New Braunfels [...]
What a shot of inspiration when I see these fellas. It seems as if they’d be great people to hang out with, they are un-normally normal. The Stubb’s crowd is amazing, as I talk to my friend Melinda, a Shins newbie, and say, have you ever seen the ‘very back rows’ of Stubb’s go crazy [...]
Hopefully I’ll get a nod or wink from the Gods. If I don’t pass, I’ll know why, I know what I’m weak on, If I pass, I’ll be at Crown and Anchor tomorrow night getting blitzed. Let’s talk about what’s conventional….Study for months and months, a balanced concerted effort, phased learning and all that jazz. [...]
The Shins, Belle and Sebastian with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, an AMAZING evening. I arrive in LA around noon on Thursday, and would be leaving at 6.30 am the next morning, the slingshot trip proved to be worth it and then some, as expected. Hollywood Bowl, well the game has changed [...]