Texas Pix are here!!! First of all here's the Alamo,and yes it's smaller than you would think. I took this on a Sunday morning, not too many people around. It wasn't 96 degrees yet either, the perfect time to go downtown.
Next we have the Riverwalk, once again on a quiet Sunday morning.
:: Tom 7:54 AM [+] ::
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:: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 ::
Mike Romanyszyn and I revel in telling each other stories and remembering our early days together, the nights we spent in a smokey basement at JB Gant's in Columbia, SC. Gant's was a college restaurant/beer joint that advertised "Folk Singing Nightly" and would charge the tourists $5.00 to go downstairs and listen to us play and sing. We were mostly into drinking beer and girls so we didn't care one way or another. Mike tells a great story about this guy who had an Espana Classical guitar. He had replaced the nylon classical strings with light guage steel strings and the guitar sounded phenomenal...for about two weeks. One night we were playing 'Gypsy Rover' or some such and the guy's guitar literally imploded! The tension of the steel strings was just too much for the bracing under the bridge and the whole thing just collapsed all at once. It was a moment to remember. It kinda reminds me of the John Belushi scene in Animal House when he takes the guitar from the folk singing guy and smashes it to bits. That's one of my favorite takes in the whole movie. I laugh out loud every time I see it.
:: Tom 12:58 PM [+] ::
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All is pretty well workwise. My goal is to process 50 pages of coding a day which means I'll finish that part of the project by June 1. Then I'll make the corrections on the database and I haven't a clue how long that will take. If I have to litterally do it one box at a time, you're talking months of tedious, exacting computer work. I sure hope there's a way we can do global changes to a block of entries at a time.
My pooch (picture above) is doing quite well. If my heel didn't hurt so much I'd take her on longer walks. I'm sure she would like that. But I can hardly make it to the back yard.
Money is still ok, but I had to pay $200 to register my car. That hurt. And I bought a yellow chair for $25. It is very clean. So now I can sit and watch tv, have a coke, play with the dogo and not all in the bed. So maybe now I dont' need that sofa for a while. Sooo, next purchase is the guitar.
:: Tom 8:31 AM [+] ::
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