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I finally washed my car for the first time in months yesterday, based on the weather reports that said we wouldn't be getting any rain for the next 10 days.
5 hours later, it rains. Sigh.
This article talks about the gift card craze, and what that says about the gift card giver. I personally don't mind gift cards at all, and realize they at least take a little bit of thought versus just giving cash (but only a little). The only unfortunate part is there was some study I read where the person receiving the gift card only values it at like 70% of the original value. On the other hand the sweater you were going to buy instead might be only seen as worth 0% of the original value, so those really aren't bad numbers.
I went to go see the Dark Side of the Rainbow yesterday. I discovered that I really don't like Pink Floyd, and that the stuff that syncs up is way overrated. But I had always been curious about it, so now that curiosity is sated and I can cross one more thing off my to-do-before-I-die list.
Tomorrow PBS will start airing the Bloc Party episode of Austin City Limits that I went to the taping of. Unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll get my 15 minutes of fame, as the song that the lead singer of Bloc Party came out into the crowd to sing and dance right next to me, isn't going to air. But you still might be able to catch glimpses of me if you pause your DVR. I'm wearing a dark brown shirt right behind a big tall guy in a green shirt, right in the middle of the standing room crowd in front of the stage, about 5 or 6 people back. The other band playing that hour, Ghostland Observatory, recorded their shows a few days before Bloc Party, so I didn't get to see that taping. But they're a local Austin band who I've gotten to see live a few times and they put on a good show so I'm eager to see what they do.
And last but not least, quite a few photo updates. A new photo of leaves outside my apartment (I really like that photo for some reason), some new photos for the Christmas gallery, and a new gallery for both Houston and Austin.
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