Three-Letter Acronyms & Four-Letter Words

I picked him up from the airport yesterday afternoon.

I was a bit late, I got caught up folding clothes and hanging towels out on the clothesline. Which, now one of the posts for the clothesline needs to be replaced. It has snapped at the base. I had noticed that it was rusting pretty bad right where the dogs had been marking it, I figured it would probably last a couple of years.

So that will be a project for next Saturday. I will try to get that in the ground before taking Jeremy back to the airport. I fly out to Boston on Sunday for the eBay Developers Conference.

On the way back from the airport, we went through downtown and over to the UT campus. I haven't been down there in a quite a while. We hit "Einstein's" an Arcade right there on the 'Drag' and played some video games. Then I got us lost looking for the Dobie mall, I thought it was north but it was south.

So along the way we stopped in at 'The Hole In the Wall' and had a quick beer and shot a game of pool. Asked directions to the Dobie.

It was very Hot yesterday, and 'It is very Hot' was said many times, mostly by Jeremy.

We browsed and each bought a graphic novel at Funny Papers, the comic store in the Dobie mall.

Then we headed towards home, stopping at HEB along the way to pick up some stuff for dinner and lunch stuff for Jeremy for the week.

I gotta go.

Back to the grind.

Laterz

Lunch: yeah Casa De Luz didn't happen. Not having ever been there, I wasn't feel adventurous enough to find the place on my own, especially after I looked it up on Google Maps and it was all the way downtown. So we are going to try to for next Friday to eat kale at Casa De Luz.

However, after looking around on the Internet for an alternative vegan lunch place. I found 'Dog Almighty', there were some reviews on the 'Net about their Vegetarian Chili. I have to say that I was intrigued.

I knew were this place was, near a farmer's market, one my favorite BBQ joints in Austin used to be right in the same area, World BBQ Headquarters. They had some great brisket and their sides were fantastic.

Anyway, I ordered a Veggie dog, some veggie chili and a side of fries. The dog wasn't bad, wasn't as good as the one that I had at 'Big Daddy's Hot Dogs', I think in part because the folks over at Big Daddy's butterfly the dog when they fry it on the cooker, so the texture is a bit better.

The Veggie chili was fantastic. I had a hunch that they were using TVP, textured vegetable protein, in the chili. I had seen this stuff in Central Market's bulk section, it sort of reminds me of grape nuts when it is dry. However, in the chili it looks a lot like ground beef, it also has almost the same texture as ground beef.

So much so, that I had to ask the lady behind the counter if it was TVP.

I cooked up some portobello mushrooms for dinner.

They were pretty tasty. We also had corn on the cob cooked on the grill, I grilled up some sliced sweet potatoes and also made some kabobs of cherry tomatoes, purple onions and red & green bell peppers. I was afraid of overcooking them and ultimately they could have been cooked a bit longer.

I found it interesting that Jeremy never really eats mushrooms, I love mushrooms. Fresh, sauteed or grilled, I dig on fungi.

As Jeremy's blog states, we went to some comic book shops after dinner. We were looking for a game that the two of us could play. I have some Magic card but I haven't played a real game in a while, just the PC version. Jeremy hasn't played anything but the PC version in years. Jeremy mentioned Settler's of Catan, I had heard of the game and seen it on the Xbox-Live marketplace recently, so I was interested.

We went to my comic book haunt, Thor's Hammer. They were out of it. Unbelievable, Thor's Hammer specializes in games, but still has an ample comic book section. They had plenty of expansion packs for Catan, but not the main game.

So we asked for direction to Dragon's Lair and headed out. Dragon's Lair had probably about the overall same selection as Thor's Hammer. However, Dragon's Lair doesn't have the space setup for role playing games that Thor's Hammer has.

Dragon's Lair did have plenty of copies of Catan, including the $400 special wooden chest version.

Laterz