Friday, July 31, 2009

the seldom seen kid

man today is one of those when i am feeling strong. the move is over and the new place is taking shape. i've been working out again and i feel stronger than a freakin' horse. i'm looking into certain accounting issues like accounting for carbon emissions and wondering if maybe i should become some sort of expert in this field for the future of cap and trade in already upon us. i don't know. i signed up for the journal of accountancy and i get it at a discount because i'm a cpa candidate and not a cpa. i feel good today. i've been listening to elbow all morning. i dropped off the keys and the garage door openers and all the stuffs for the old place. so we're out completely from the old, heat infested place. things felt so spread out, so out of place, so lost just a few weeks ago, but it's coming together. i love when a plan comes together.

i feel like i could lift this building right up over my head. i hope everyone gets to feel like every once and a while.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

gorilla dust












just thinking about iceland today, so i thought some pictures might help me out.



absolutely

"don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust."

-bill mcneil

got nuffin

really, i got nuffin today.

i ate jalepeno sausage for lunch today with fried potatoes and red cabbage. it was actually really good. i didn't eat all the cabbage.

speaking of food, while i was in austin, my dad took me to alamo springs cafe in fredericksburg. apparently their burgers are so good, they were voted some of the best in texas and made the cover of texas monthly. the burger was awesome. the fries were great too. it's about as in the middle of nowhere i have ever seen a restaurant. i really want to try some of the best burgers in texas before i leave. roznovskys and christian's tailgate are next on my list.

Monday, July 27, 2009

the lake

the lake did me in again. we went to austin this weekend for my wife's sister's birthday and i took off to hang out with my dad for his birthday. but before i did that, i made another valuable contribution to a texas water body.

the first contribution happened in july of 2008. i had just gotten married in april and was getting used to my wedding ring. it was kind of loose and i didn't think that was normal. i told my wife about it and she said, yeah, it should be a little loose. i said okay. so we're out on her brother's boat in lake scummerville (sommerville) in brenham. we jump off for a bit and start throwing around the football. i dive for a throw to my right and when i come up, i feel around my fingers and notice that my wedding ring is gone. totally gone. flew off at some point when i dove for the ball. we (my wife, me and two friends) spent the next two and a half hours looking for that ring. this water was kind of nasty too and i'm not sure what exactly i was touching down on the bottom. that was my first contribution.

my second contribution came this past weekend. we get to her sister's kind of late friday night, like around 9pm. we start hanging out and having a good time. we leave and head out to this awesome house on the lake, that's where we're staying the night. so this place was amazing. hot tubs upstairs, all kinds of flat screens and stuff. we sleep, get up and we're (just five of us who stayed there) are going to take the boat out on the lake before everybody from the party gets there. and it was not easy getting the boat in. the water on lake travis was down probably about fifteen feet. we had to fanagle that thing in. but eventually, it got in. we drove around, found a good place to wakeboard and a terrific time. the last person to wakeboard was my wife's brother. once he gets done, my wife asks for my help pulling in the wakeboard. so i'm happy to help. but while i'm bending over to help pickup the wakeboard, my left hand comes up too high and i knock my glasses in the river. gone. sunk like a stone. i stood there, dazed for a second, not believing i had done it again and this time, now i was literally disabled because of it. but, i laughed it off. that's something you can do when you lose your wedding ring. but i had no way of getting to my dad's now for his birthday.

anyway, long story short, we went to walmart and i got an eye-exam and a trial pair of contacts and able to see again. the prospect of not being able to see for two days was really horrible. thank goodness for walmart. so between the ring and glasses, i've not contributed about $1,000 to various water bodies in texas. if you find either one, please return them to me.