It definitely doesn't make it taste bad. Given the fact that I have accepted that when it comes to milk (not necessarily cheese) I am lactose intolerant, I have taken to Soy milk for cereal as well as coffee.
I ordered a large Mocha made with soy milk instead of the whole milk they regularly use.
I also had a peanut butter cookie. The cookie was a little dry, but not crunchy. I think I should have gone with the chocolate chip, oh well.
Jeremy ordered up a small Mocha (with regular milk) and a gigantic rice krispy treat. Seriously as big as a small child's head, though not as round.
We are sitting here in the enclosed section, near the AC outlets.
I must say that when I get some time to do some writing, I will probably find my way back down here. I think you have to be around people (sometimes) when you want to write, something about the energy derived from being in an establishment with plenty of hustle and bustle full of people that seemingly known one another and yet are a stranger to you. Somewhere to go where nobody knows your name (unlike Cheers).
So, I would say that I usually have good hearing. Gina would say that my hearing is horrible, but she also tends to have the habit of talking in the opposite direction of me. One thing that Gina also says is that I need to get my hearing checked out, because when I am having a good hearing day, I can hear all sort of conversations around me, but have a hard time tuning them out.
The reason I bring this up, is that there is this set of girls sitting near Jeremy and me. Probably in their mid 20s. They were having a conversation when we got here, they both have books in front of them, novels of sorts, not necessarily text books. The one seems to be well, for the lack of a better word, lecturing the other. Going on about how she handles people and how she wouldn't care about how people think of her, etc.
Which is good, since she is having this conversation in a public space. I mean, sure we are in a place where there are lots of people. I mean she definitely has to not care what people think about her, to verbally describe herself as pretty much a {insert your favorite word here} in public.
Anyway, at one point her mastery of the English language stunned me. She used the word 'like' as every 3rd word for at least 10 sentences. "It's like" or "It's not like" or "You know like" or "what about like"
I mean, wtf, I thought the "Valley Girl" thing died out in the late 90s.
Regardless,
Mozart's is definitely a good place to people watch, unavoidably ease drop and get a tasty mocha with soy.
I need to get
back to working on the weasel site.
Laterz
While the free bratwurst is very tempting, I think we need to get some coffee. (and maybe a desert)
So we are heading to Mozart's in a few minutes.
We made some good headway on the database design.
laterz
Saturday, July 28. 2007
I think that is how the saying goes.
Regardless, Jeremy and I got the last of the tree limb out of the tree.
I took up the pole saw this time and
trimmed off the remaining leaf bearing branches on the dead limb. I also attempted to trim off some parts that we thought were keeping us from being able to remove it easily from the tree. A couple of pieces I cut off might have proved useful. However, given what the solution we ended up using to remove the limb, I doubt it.
Jeremy at one point was on top of the ladder pushing the tree limb up, as to dislodge it from the other limb it was sort of stuck in. However, even with me helping out we couldn't lift it high enough.
The way in which we were attempting to dislodge it, ie lifting it up, made me remember that I had some 8' (maybe 10') 2x4 beams in the garage from one of the renovation projects. We went and retrieved two of these and set about finding a good spot to plant the beams as to be able to push the limb up and out of the tree.
And with a resounding... CRASH-THUD, the limb hit the ground.
Luckily it didn't hit either one of us. Just before my thought about the beams, while Jeremy and I were messing with the limb whilst Jeremy was on the ladder, Gina had let Curly out into the front yard. Thankfully, when the limb had come crashing down finally, Gina had taken Curly for a walk around the block, we think the limb weighs a good 80-90 pounds, so it most definitely would end the life a little dog (or a knucklehead who is trying to jostle it out of the tree).
No one was hurt in the end, which is good. However, now there is a front yard full of tree limb to take care of.
I can honestly say that I am avoiding the task, as it is very HOT and HUMID out.
Jeremy and I are currently hanging out at the
DraughtHouse in downtown Austin. We ate a late lunch @ Delware subs just south of here and are now currently enjoying a pint. We are going to work on John's weasel site. We will likely move from here over to Mozart's coffee house, as there doesn't seem to
be any power outlets, which always seems to be the case for me.
Time to get cracking.
Laterz
Sunday, June 24. 2007
I found this 1554 beer (or technically it might be an ale) while Gina and I were out at HEB today.
I have been working on a Website for John.
www.stinkweasels.com
He has a splash page up there right now. I am working on the main layout right now, while drinking a
1554.
I had a Guinness earlier and one of the reasons that I picked up the 1554 is that it is a dark beer (ale), as is the Guinness that I had earlier. I have to say that I am liking this 1554.
I tend to like most dark beers (or ales) go figure.
Hopefully I can get the design done today, cuz while I am loving the challenge of doing a total CSS style design, I would like to move on to the easy bit of building the rest of the site.
Laterz
