What have you been doing lately?

I haven’t done a personal post in a bit so here’s a stab.

In just about two months, I’ll be leaving my current job and going back to school at Wake Forest Law. Three more years of school coming at me. Its a pretty drastic change from what I’m doing now, but I think its the right time. Time to make my move before its too late and I’m 30 or something

It’ll be interesting to be in NC again. Winston Salem is smaller than Austin, but then again I’m only going there for the school. Hopefully it won’t be horribly boring, but its likely I won’t notice from all the work. But it should be worth it.

As such, I’ve been out doing more things around town lately so I can say “yea, I did that while I was in Austin”. I also went out and got myself a Nikon D50 to play with.

The first thing I did was go to a Round Rockets Express game. Its a minor league team in town, but its also baseball. It was only fun because they served beer

Next I went with my buddy Roy to an area in the Green Belt near his house. Its a pretty scenic area and once again I dragged my newest toy.

That was fun to reconnect a bit with nature. Granted it took two days for my shoes to dry back out but it was good fun nonetheless.

Memorial Day rolled around the next weekend. My buddy Neguiel drove over from Houston and we played shitloads of Hitman: Blood Money. If you haven’t played this game before, and ever had the secret agent/assassin fantasy, you’re missing out

We also wandered down to San Antonio, mostly for the purposes of us both being able to say that we’ve done that while we lived in Texas. The Riverwalk was a bit underwhelming to me. Very scenic though, like this bridge.

We did manage to find an awesome little restaurant though, Casa Rio.  Absolutely delicious Mexican food.  I highly recommend it if you’re ever in this town.

Of course we also went to The Alamo, which is another attraction in San Antonio.  Since we were visiting on a Sunday, we had the privledge of hearing a bunch of evangelicals telling everyone within earshot that they were going to hell.  The Alamo was a bit smaller than I expected, but at least I can say I’ve seen it now.

Last weekend, I took a cue from Dave Attell’s Insomniac show and went to the Texas Rollergirls Rollerderby.  I swear the whole thing was funded by Lonestar Beer.  It at least gets you a bit drunk.  There’s another league in Austin, but they haven’t had a rollerderby in a while so this was the one I went to.  Not as wild as the one shown on Insomniac I’m afraid

Finally, last night I went to an MMA fight in town.  If you’ve heard of UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) or Pride Fighting, you know what I’m talking about.  Its definintely an interesting sport I’ve started to take interest in lately.  Its definitely fun to watch live

So basically, I’ve been a bit active lately.  I’m also starting to run downtown at Town Lake on Sunday mornings.  Its a pretty scenic run and goes around the river in downtown.  No pics for that one yet, mostly because I’ll be damned if I have anything on me while I run, especially a camera

So about two more months left here, I better do everything I wanted to do fast.

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