Category: Fun

Jul 20, 2010

Ok, so some days aren't so artistic...

Well.   Today is Tuesday.   I’m buried at work.  But time has come to hang it up for the night.

Monte and I aren’t what you call TV addicts.  Our favorite channel is the live weather radar channel.   We have taken a recent fancy to those quirky British comedies on PBS and more often than not we prefer to watch old timey movies on the classic movie channels.    There is one primetime show that we enjoy watching together, though — Mad Men.  Season 4 kicks off this weekend.   We didn’t really start watching the show until last season.  For his birthday I bought Monte Season 1 & 2 DVDs, so we could catch up.

We had about 3 episodes left to watch, and so we had our own mini-marathon tonight to finish the DVDs before the season premier this weekend.

Why am I telling you all this?   Well, I left my camera in a low resolution setting from the other day.  So any other shots I’d taken of pretty things looks very grainy.   I did happen to capture this screen shot documenting our Mad Men marathon.   So, that’s what you get for tonight.

Jun 27, 2010

Wheeeeee!!!

Jen and Rob invited us to go tubing with them and their niece, Channing, today.   We did our traditional  San Marcos River extended float.   We go farther downstream past the official take out point where we park a car and trailer ahead of time to haul tubes and tubers back to the starting point.  That way we have a 3 hour float.

It hasn’t hit 100 degrees yet this year, so it’s a little unusual for us to go tubing until triple digit temps.   But we had a fun time.   The flow was unusually swift, so it was more work than your typical lazy float down the river.

This is a shot just as I entered the chute at the rapids.  I’ve never turned over before, but this time I did, and ended up losing my hat and sunglasses.   My hat was found a bit down river, but my prescription raybans are gone for good.   Oh well.   But it didn’t dampen the fun.

Can’t wait for the next float!

Jun 4, 2010

Mexican train

Tonight Jen joined us for dinner at our favorite Indian restaurant.  Afterward we came back to the house for a visit.

Rob and Jen introduced us to this domino game called Mexican Train.   Not sure why it’s called that, but it’s fun.   Monte won several times and I think Jen and I both won one.

This was one of the more impressive set of trains we built.

Choo choo!

Apr 10, 2010

Psycho-killers

We went to a reunion of sorts at Lori’s tonight, of some of the folks that worked and played hard in Boca in the early days.    Simply could NOT keep these people from dancing (or whatever you’d call it).   Saw Lori, Dave, Rudy, Jake, Eric, Laurie, Doray, Tom, David H, Wendy, Denyse and Lisa.  Had a blast.

Mar 14, 2010

Mo Willy

Last night we sprang ahead for Daylight Savings Time.   There are many things I love about DST, one is that we can play 9 holes in the late afternoon and finish before sunset.   So we hightailed it over to Maurice Williams on this fine Sunday afternoon and walked 9.   This shot is from the green at No 5, which has a good view of the new, changing skyline of Austin.   It’s been a long time since we played.   I hope we can sneak away after work a few times to play before it gets insufferably hot.   Afterward, as we do after every round at Mo’ Willy, we stopped by the Posse East near the UT campus for chicken tacos and a pitcher.    It was a good day.

%d bloggers like this: