It's just after dawn and you're sitting down to a cup of coffee and breakfast sausages. Your daughter, hands sticky with maple syrup from her microwave waffle, has to go wash her hands and go pee. She leaves the door open and is telling you about how she needs more toilet paper. Everything is normal, until she screams, piercingly. Everything is ( Read more... )

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we're in austin! doing...things. apparently this city is infested with bats, but we haven't seen any yet. we did see a bum sleeping on the road! also a lot of car accidents. the food is really good here but no one seems to give a rip about local ingredients or whatever. it is kind of the anti-portland? i googled locavore restaurants and found only ( Read more... )

i just booked our tickets to austin, september 23-29. kirk's brother kyle is getting married on the 27th! the ceremony is about 2 hrs away, but we are staying there for the first three nights and then driving to college station, which is where kirk was living when we first met, and it's also an hour closer to the church ( Read more... )

kirk and i went to several antique stores while we were
in texas. betty's corner in levelland, the lubbock antique
mall, and hastings antiques in idalou. they were all run
by crazy old folks whose stores were enormous and
overwhelmingly crammed with stuff. we had a lot of fun :)

some purchases:


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