I'm not comin' home

I've just returned from my 7 day exploration of my new home Austin. I was scared (and sick but that's unrelated) when I arrived in Austin New Years day. I wanted my first day, my first time, in Austin to be new years day.

My immediate arrival provided the first of MANY surprises. $50 off my car rental because I had to wait 10 minutes. Little did I know it an illness that would follow me through the entire week was brewing.

As I headed towards the city I noticed a a guy biking on what I assume was the highway.....this is Austin. Nothing but bunch of bike riders, hipsters, and college kids. Sometimes a good thing sometimes a bad thing.

The week was filled with tacos, movies, and sun. Not too unlike how I spend most of my days in Ohio. It also presented me with my first flat bike tire. Very flat. And a subsequent 3 mile walk as the sun began to creep behind the hills.

I was slightly to painfully sick most if not...well ALL the time I was there. I'm just now kinda getting over it though I think i might be getting pink eye. Either way it made the experience interesting and if I can have a good time when I'm that sick, it's got to be pretty cool.

I could try to go through all the cool things i did (Escape from NY and Howling II (with personal appearance by Sybal Danning). Tell you about all the cool taco places I found (soy chorizo everywhere, and a taco every morning-one of which was 3/4 lbs.) And some of the weirdos (bum dancing his heart out for a good 4 minutes, and a really GOOD dancer at that, I'm not big on giving out money to bums but this dude would have gotten a fiver, and a $5ver). But I am sure a lot of this stuff is going to come as I begin living life in my new city.

I should mention that I am going to miss.....a lot of people. And I know I'll be missed. I'm sorry I am leaving. You're all really important to me. It's weird. I really wish I could have it all. But something has to give. And for so many reasons I'm just not happy where I am. Will this solve everything? Probably not. WIll I most likely be a lot poorer...probably. But I'm hoping at least I'm happier.

SO it begins. I hope to see a lot of you come check this place out. Also Steve Jobs did invent iChat sooo.......Come down sometime and I'll challenge you to Mortal Kombat II. Or discuss life under the night sky at any one of a 100 sweet bars....kinda. Ok the city sucks, but so does the cold, cuz it's a cold night for alligators.


Two headed dog