Haven't spent as much time online as I used to due to work. When you spend 8 hours a day reading essays of varying degrees of quality on a computer, the last thing you want to do is hop online and continue looking at a computer screen. Hell, most days I don't even want to read my book when I get home. Instead I've been passing the first few hours after I arrive home during the week playing with V's cat Toby, doing household chores, starting dinner, and/or watching the occasional movie. By the time dinner is in progress (if V cooks, and she typically does) and/or eaten I'm finally willing to subject myself to a little recreational computer use before I make my way to dreamland. Which pretty much leaves me the weekends to hop on here, but since I moved to Austin we've found plenty to keep us busy on the weekends without having to turn the computer on.
There have been movies to watch (both in theatres and at home), walks to take, necessary shopping excursions, outings with friends, and meals to eat at a variety of local establishments. The options for food consumption in Austin are Awesome...so many great places that aren't major chains. I could list them all, but I'll refrain as I'm already itching to be back off the computer again. Just know that the majority of non-home-cooked meals we consume come from local businesses (some of whom get their food from local producers), which is the way it should be.
I'd like to tell you that we've been to a bunch of shows since I've been here, but that'd be a lie. Not that we haven't wanted to go to shows, just that either a better offer for entertainment comes up, or we're too tired to catch a late show the night of, or in the case of SXSW it just doesn't work out. We wanted to hit up some free shows during SXSW, but the first problem there was that many of them took place while we were both working. Then we wanted to go to the Mess With Texas festival, but we came to our senses & realized that trying to get downtown during both SXSW and rush hour on a Friday was a Stupid idea. So then we thought maybe we'd show-hop on Saturday, but when we woke up to find the temperature had dropped into the upper 30s we gave up completely. Maybe next year will be better, but I won't hold my breath.
Anyway, that's all I have for now. V should be home from school soon, so I'm going to spend some quality time with her before I crawl into bed and pass out.
P.S.--Bought 3 new albums this month...the new Liars album I haven't fully formed an opinion on because I've only had the opportunity to give it one spin & I was distracted at the time, but I didn't hear anything I disliked so I'm assuming it's Amazing. Also picked up the new Daughters album, which is blissfully noisy & I'd be disappointed if it were otherwise. The other album I picked up was the new Gorillaz album which I was very disappointed with...I liked a few songs on it, but the rest were Terrible...hopefully through repeat listens the album will grow on me, but I know I don't like it as well as the previous 2 albums. We'll see....
