Entries from March 2007

Hardware

HD: Thank you for calling Home Depot. Please press 1 for store hours, 2 if you know your party’s extension, 3 to speak to a specific department…
Me: *Pushes 3*
HD: Please press 1 for the Garden Center, 2 for Hardware, 3 for Plumbing…
Me: *Pushes 2*
HD: Hardware, this is Tony.
Me: Hi Tony. I’m not sure if this [...]

Categories: Lucky I'm Cute · R-R-Rambling

Strawberry Blossom

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I’m supposed to pinch these off in the first season to help promote grown in the root system, but they are so pretty I can’t help but save a few.

Categories: Daily Photo · Nature-ish

Enough Already!

I just realized that I forgot to mention that on Friday I went to happy hour w/ two of my girlfriends at Polvo’s and a series of events happened that had us completely hysterical. Not only had none of these things ever happened on their own, but all FOUR of them happened on the same [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Friend-ish

We Survived SXSW 2007!

One of the guys I worked with at SXSW last week laid his head down on the table about half way thru the festival and sad sadly, “I’m so tired. I don’t want to be on vacation anymore. Can’t I just go back to work?”
Thanks be to heaven, that day has come. I went back [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Music to My Ears · Shutterbuggin'

Ozomatli @ SXSW

A friend of mine recommended Ozomatli a few years ago and I never really looked them up. They were playing at a very convenient time at the DirectTV Live Stage in the Convention Center yesterday, so there was no excuse not to check them out. They were AMAZING. I only caught 2 songs, but I [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Music to My Ears

South by South Rainy

I took this a few days ago. The rain has since stopped, but it’s still gray and a little muddy.

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Categories: Austin-ish · Daily Photo

Oh, and I met Ze. Swoon.

Today is also the last day of “The Show“. I will miss it very much. *tear*.

Categories: Austin-ish · Tech-ish

SXSW So Far

Here are some things I’ve jotted down over the last few days about the Interactive and Film portions of SXSW.
Music has started. I’ve only seen a few bands that blew me away, the rest is just really crowded and full of attitude. It’s such a jarring difference between the crowds during Film and Interactive [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Tech-ish