Ahh….I’m so well rested. HA!
I’m operating on about 6 espressos and four hours of sleep.
Congratulations to Andrea for her advancement to the next round of FPIA.
I made a road trip of it (last minute planning) and had a blast. It was well worth the drive.
Racetrac (Collins/I-20): Fueling up for the haul.
Driving: I-20
Sanity:
Did I do this on purpose?
Brief foreshadowing on I-20
The essential building blocks of life: Water and Coffee (not ranked in importance)
TCC – after they drilled a gas rig into one of the fields….
Sheriff presence kept me from photographing the actual sign on I-20 splitting off onto I-35.
Rounding onto I-35S
Miller brewery down 35 – smells like bread/yeast
Huh. Blue skies ahead!
Tony the crippled tiger:
Heyyyy. What’s that up there?
Darn it. Thanks to the rain-x on my windshield, the drops looked like a swarm of sperm crawling up the glass. Creeepy.
Ha! Made it to Austin, so where’s the first place I go? Containerstore!!! They didn’t have what I was looking for *gasp* but I picked up some stuff anyway.
Here’s one of the Randall’s that I visited when I worked for the Deployment group at Safeway. I wandered in and used their bathroom. Also took a moment to phone my mother and find out about her ….uh…thing that’s happening.
Okay, so here’s where I stalled in taking a bunch of pictures. As much as I wanted to fully capture the experience on film, I didn’t want to be “that guy” who was taking pictures of everything in the world just so that I could post it to my silly little blog. Knowing that I was bumming a free ticket off Andrea before she was to go onstage, I didn’t want to stress her (or any of the other comics for that matter) out by taking pictures of everything that wasn’t nailed down. Sooo….I left the camera in the car. Note: I got EXACTLY the last parking space in the lot when I arrived.
Watched the comics perform, Andrea rocked a great set and I watched a few more comics when it started closing in on 10:00pm. It was closing in on the tipping point for me. Either I was going to hang out, or head back home. I had already had err……quite a few vodkas…..so I knew I’d better get on the road to sober up. That’s right isn’t it? Caught up the the GirlonTop and chatted for a bit before taking off.
I actually ended up leaving before she was announced as moving up to the next round – so I’ll be looking forward to hanging out longer when I find out what day the next round is. I’ll probably take some time off and get a room rather than drive back at night (again).
So, back in the car, I did get some pictures, but as my last drink was a double (!) things get progressively shakier.
Last Spot in the Lot:
I was there! Honest!
Drunk Dually Driving:
Pit Stop at the Czech Stop – ordered two Czech “Specials” and a Poppyseed Kolache. Mmm. Poppies!
Last shot of the Miller sign (inbound). By this point it was probably 12:45am. I’d been awake since 5:30am the previous morning, and had driven about six hours total – so I was pretty wiped out. (And almost sober. WHOOPS!)
Since I got to Austin so much earlier than the show, I did get to drive down Guadalupe/Lamar and get more of a sense of what Austin is actually about. People always told me that I would fit in better there, I never believed them. I guess I hadn’t been to the right places.
Looking forward to going back soon……
