During my bike ride this morning, I noticed some abandoned harvesters. And I don’t really understand what exactly is going on. At some point in the year, a field is plowed over and then seeded with this quick growing type of corn plant. They will then leave this field alone to grow. They will not water it or tend it. And at some point every plant will then die. The field will then sit there for a long time. Why, I dont know? Dry out? Rot? Ferment? And then they harvest it. I guess for this hard as a rock corn. Perhaps they gind everything up and feed it to cows. It seems like you can do that to a lot of things… (like cow carcasses — and hence you get BSE).

And then I decided to stop by with some friends at Russ’ house. He has decided to sell all of his worldly possessions (including his house and car) and move to Wroclaw to live with a new girfriend.

I seems like many people that I know are making or are considering life changing decisions.

I went to lunch today to the Asian Market and saw this store outside. Which is amusing really. One of the benefits of the internet is that you can have virtual stores. And in fact, one company, eBay, was created to do just that for auctions. And now, because they are so popular, brick and mortar versions are popping up!

And then, when I went to watch “40 Year Old Virgin”, one of the main characters did exactly that! Talk about Hollywood imitating current culture…

I was in the Austin-Bergstrom Airport this morning and noticed this sign. Round Rock donuts are “world famous”? Yeah, right! Dream on Round Rock! I am sure that some Azerbiajani fondly remembers the time that he ate one of these delicious donuts… Or, maybe they just consider that Texas is the only world that matters. And then I am sure that someone from Impact Town, Texas has a craving for Round Rock donuts this morning!

During my bike ride this morning I noticed 32 other cyclists (for an all time high). I wonder if it was because I left my house later than normal (08:12am)? And after I got back, I noticed another record. I have cycled 622.92462 miles on my Revive. Thats, like, from Round Rock, Texas to New Cambria, Kansas!

I am being plauged by water problems recently. My refrigerator’s water supply was not working well. The ice machine stopped spitting out ice. So I changed the water filter, well that had an effect… of stopping the water running at all! So, I yanked the refrigerator out and unconnected the water supply. When I turned back on the water, this is what came out: strange blue shit. Gah! What is in our water supply? Well, at least the water runs now, but it takes like five seconds before it starts flowing from the water dispenser. Sigh…

I went to see the Lord of the Rings trilogy at the Alamo Drafthouse today. The main selling point of it was seven meals! Yes, you read that correctly. The menu was the following:

First Breakfast:
Fresh Hens eggs, nice crispy bacon, grilled mushrooms and orange slice

Second Breakfast:
Strawberries and Cream

Elevensies:
Pan Seared Sausage and tomatoes with cheeses, cabbage and pickles

Luncheon:
Braised Spareribs with mashed potatoes, roast carrots

Afternoon Tea:
Baby greens with garlic blackberry vinaigrette, cheese herb galette, served with tea cookies

Dinner:
Stewed Coney (rabbit) with taters, carrot, and leek, fresh garden herbs with crusty bread

Supper:
Swirl of tomato and spinach soups wild mushroom crouton, apple pie

The food was very tasty and each meal was rather large. I finished off the first three plates and was full after that. So I made my self taste the other meals, but there was no way I could eat that much food in one sitting! Another interesting thing was eating the food in a dark theater. You experience food differently if you cannot see what you are eating.

I was there for a while! They played the extended film version of the first two movies and the normal DVD verson of the final movie. And I was glad that it was not the extended version because I wanted to get home before 11pm. I had arrived there at 9am, so I essentially spent 14 hours for this festival. I was certinally burned out!

The other exciting thing that happened was that there was a fire at the Spaghetti Warehouse across the street. During the first break, I went outside to warm up (because the theatre was cold not because of the fire) and I must have counted 13 fire trucks out there. I couldn’t leave even if I wanted to since my poor truck was surrounded by fire hoses.

What the hell is a Keet? And why would I want to buy one? Are they tasty?

On my bike ride this morning, I noticed something very weird. I mean like X-files weird. Someone placed the heads of four dead catfish on fence posts of the barbed wire fence running along the road. Why?? What is this supposed to prevent?? Very bizzare!

On my bike ride this morning, I came across these words spray painted on the road.

I think it has something to do with the two holes on both sides of the road. Perhaps they are laying pipe underneath the road? Which is a shame actually. This is a brand new road! You would think that they would get everything correct the first time! Sigh… Our tax dollars at work.