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When I worked for a software company in the early ‘00’s, they sent me to Bangalore India for three weeks. They had three guest houses with full-time houseboys that cleaned, cooked food, and ran the house. They slept on mats on the kitchen floor. It was a very spartan life. They were not hired for their cooking skills. The commute each day was a reminder of how great city planning is in the US and Europe. Each day, a driver would come to the guest house and pick us up. The morning commute was always interesting. A different route was taken each day based on traffic flow. Regardless, it was at least an hour in the morning. In any given intersection, we’d see a busload of people with people sitting on top of the bus and riding on the bumper by hanging onto the bus, a few delivery trucks, a few dozen auto-rickshaws, a permanent neighborhood made of tents and boxes, a cow or two standing in the road, miscellaneous cars and motorcycles, and a six year old girl wandering through the traffic. Pure chaos. The evening commute was after dark and took much longer. Eventually, I just slept on the evening commute back to the guesthouse every day. One weekend, I flew to New Delhi, stayed the night in Delhi, took a train to Agra, toured the taj mahal and other sites, took an overnight train to Jaipur, found a hotel at 3 AM, toured Jaipur the next day, took a train back to Delhi, and flew back to Bangalore. When I got off the train in Agra, there were lots of locals offering tourists tours of the taj mahal and other sites. I got a private tour of the taj, agra fort, mini taj, they took me to lunch and dinner, and a few shops to buy stuff. Cost for the tour was $20. I think I tipped them $40. I got this marble mosaic plate at one of the shops for $50. On a separate trip there, there was a terrorist attack on several hindu temples. None that were anywhere near me. On the second trip, we got food poisoning from the houseboys’ cooking. Mine kicked in on the flight from bangalore to frankfurt. I had to make a connection there on my flight back to dallas. I spent the entire flight from frankfurt to dallas in the airplane restroom. Flight attendants made me de-plane in a wheelchair. Wife surprised me by meeting me at the airport; I surprised her when I rolled up in a wheelchair . Memorable trips.

We saw Loro as we headed out from Matt’s. Great patio. Looking forward to trying the Addison location although we’ll miss out on that great patio.

That’s true. But we both work from home, and it’s good to have a reason to leave the house. My wife is VP of sales for an enterprise software company. The end of quarter is damn stressful for her. I thought a day trip to give her a mental break from her office would be healthy. We’re on a boot kick right now. We both saw a pair we liked from a boutique boot co. called Heritage on south congress. I like to try on boots to get the right fit; each brand has its own subtleties. Regardless, we both scored, and had a great day in the process. Again, thanks to all. The surl never disappoints.

We picked up some boots at heritage on south congress and got tired of dealing with the masses. we headed over to matt’s for lunch before heading back up to Dallas. Thanks to everyone for the recommendations!

Wife is in the mood for texmex. Any recs for texmex with a great patio?

Perlas looks good.

The lunch menu at Nido doesn’t really entice me. I suspect the view of the city is really nice though.

We live a few miles north of Addison. Loro opened a location in Addison. Wife said “that’s the place I wanted to go to last weekend”. So, Loro is a no-go for the Austin trip.

Loro looks like a great option.

Wife and I are headed to Austin tomorrow from Dallas for some boot shopping. We haven’t been to Austin for years. Looking for recommendations for lunch. We’re pretty much down for any style but we can get good bbq and mexican in Dallas. A patio would be great (RIP Shady Grove).

I assume the article is written unclearly. If not, this part could greatly affect diabetes treatment. I wear a sensor that connects with my phone and gives me my blood sugar in real time. There’s two wires that are under the skin. The sentence in the article doesn’t say the outlawing of devices placed under the skin only applies to when it’s employer mandated; it could be interpreted that any devices under the skin are outlawed. I’m confident that the brilliant minds of the republican representatives considered this and wrote legislation that couldn’t possibly be interpreted this way.

Nah. There was only one hurricane on the starboard side. One nuke did the trick.

I’ve had tix for this since Jan. Really looking forward to it. That week is gonna be busy for me. Sat - Houndmouth in Ft Worth wed - Einaudi at Bass Hall thurs - Built to Spill at Granada Fuck work. I got music to hear.

Both of ‘em

The red light district is officially moving to the concert venue for the night

Saw Chris Stapleton tonight at Choctaw Casino in Durant OK. So good. He played a bit of Freebird and transitioned to A Devil Named Music. That was pretty cool. Closed strong with Outlaw State of Mind. Seemed like a short set. Plenty of meat in his catalog was left on the bone. Wanted to hear Watch You Burn but he didn’t play it. His voice was so strong with his songs about love. I wanted to see how he performed a song about anger.

Short answer: yes. Per the googles, this is now called MoPop. We went to MoPop and saw the nirvana and pearl jam exhibits. They’re both badass. PJ exhibit is ending mid Apr. This was all funded by Paul Allen. Respect. KEXP is the radio station that promotes the local scene. They identify 12 bands each year and put on three shows with four bands playing each show. The third show was on the weekend I was in town. The show is free but I made a small donation. When I got there, I soon realized I was amongst high school kids and their parents. Awkward. That being said. They’re damn creative up there. Bands covered pop-grunge, disco, singer songwriter, and as best described as devo-esque performance art techo rock. The future of sound is in good hands.

Went to Seattle last weekend for my pilgrimage to the mother ship. Went to Easy Street Records in West Seattle. Known for the Mother Love Bone mural painted by Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament Procured vinyl We stayed in the Belltown area and stopped by a record store called Singles Going Steady. They specialize in punk. Talked to the owner, Byron, for a while. He said Mike McCready regularly drops in weekly on Tues or Thurs. We did the grunge site tour the day before and drove by the Paramount. Picked up the Nirvana album of their live show there. We went to the Sub Pop store in downtown-ish Seattle; it was underwhelming. I talked to the person working there, and he’s in a band called So Pitted. Apparently, he likes to make props and throw them into the audience during shows. He said one time he hit some guy in the head and was confused when the guy got pissed off. Doesn’t seem like a recipe for success to brain people at your show. But maybe it’s performance art that’s over my head. Anyway, Sub Pop has a great store at the Seattle airport. I blew the rest of my wad there on t shirts, turntable slipmats and other assorted grunge paraphernalia. Only thing stopping me and the wife was available space in our carry ons. Got the latest Built to Spill. I have tix to see them Dallas in Apr.

First of all… username checks out. Wife and I went to Seattle last weekend. In preparation and following the weekend, we watched Singles. Yeah. We visited some sites in the movie, and I randomly stumbled across the park bench with the statue sitting on it while getting the wife some drip coffee. I learned something about the movie that I didn’t know. I always assumed the movie was filmed and released when grunge broke into mainstream. Wrong. Cameron Crowe wrote and directed the film well before nirvana and pearl jam released nevermind and ten. Filming wrapped in May ‘91. Ten and nevermind were released in aug and sept ‘91, respectively. The studio sat on the film for a year because they thought no one cared about Seattle. Then nirvana, PJ, AIC, and soundgarden exploded. The studio released the film in sept ‘92. sounds like teen spirit was originally going to be in the film but it became too expensive once it exploded. Crowe was prescient.

Only thing missing was a “such as the woke”

Gary Clark Jr. just announced a show in OKC. It just so happens to be the night before the Rival Sons / The Record Company show in OKC. Looks like I’ll skip the Rival Sons / Record Co show in Austin and do two nights in OKC instead. I gotta manufacture a reason to justify the trip to the wife.

The Record Company is coming to Stubbs with Rival Sons on May 13. Trying to decide if I’m gonna go to Austin or OKC to see them. Wife’s been talking about getting some new boots at Heritage. Maybe I can swing some new boots for each of us and a concert for me.

I concur

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