30 years later...

This weekend we made a mad dash down to Houston for Chaz's 30-year class reunion. It was held at the Houston Club, which I'm sure in its heyday 40 years ago was quite swanky, but in context of 2008, is quite like a crazy old aunt that's dressed up; a remodel is desperately in order. In all, the reunion was nice - everyone was cordial, the food wasn't bad, and they did all those reunion-y things like count kids and grandkids and have a dance. We stayed a good three or four hours before trekking through the downtown canyon back to the hotel for the evening. Chaz was a bit disappointed that more of his closer friends weren't there for the event, but I think we had fun nonetheless. I got a kick out of these green-screen photos; Chaz's shirt resembles Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility in a subtle way.

On the way out of Austin we stopped at Southside Market in Elgin for some barbeque. It was pretty quiet there for a lunch hour. Apparently everyone was a bit north at the newly appointed"Best BBQ in Texas", Snow's. If they hadn't heard the story though, they might have been out of luck; word is they run out of meat within 2 hours of opening at 8.

This week I'm ramping up a work colleague on a project in NY state, and getting ready for our new AC installation at the house. Its gonna be a mess. That and finishing getting the duplex ready for a tenant.