After breakfast, getting back to the hotel, the radio was playing, KLAQ, (Grace’s radio station), and the [i]that[/i] Eagles’ song came on. “Desperado – you’ve been out riding fences too long…” Perfect for a morning in El Paso, whipsy clouds overhead, almost cool, I’m guessing low 80’s air temperature, and breakfast at the truck stop. … Desperado
Couldn’t even get out of Austin without having to stop and talk to a homeless guy, wish him a happy birthday. Leo. I’m thinking of incorporating this into some kind of visual, for the next round of folks who start asking questions, and expecting free answers. I think it’s this week’s Scorpio that had such … Feast Day of St. Bartholomew
Road again. Off to [url=http://www.astrofish.net/weblog/comments.php?id=P127_0_1_0_C]El Paso – working [url=http://www.astrofish,net/travel.html]weekend in the [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000024YO/fishinguideto-20]Franklin Mountains. Seems so long ago that I was last there. Couch surfing, too, this trip, not because it’s cheaper, but because some friends have outright [i]insisted[/i] that I stay with them. Mars is RX, Mercury is poised to turn backwards, and the stars … Road again
Thought-provoking [url=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html]article about presentations. Me? I hate PowerPoint. [i]It’s just personal, though.[/i] I’ve sat through maybe three presentations in the last year. Four, possibly. One was done by my own father, Pa Wetzel, so I can take that. His presentation is actually content-filled, but the presentation itself was designed by a buddy’s girlfriend, and the … Give me back my bullets
One week and two cigars. I dug through the accumulated cigar collection, and I found me a “Gloria.” So I had a dark-skinned Cuban for breakfast. “La Gloria Cubana” was her name. I turned off the e-mail so I could get some work done, too. Seems like a lot of folks were a little [i]tense[/i], … One week and two cigars
Had an excellent morning on the lake, Lake Austin. Caught nothing. The company of “The Osprey” was stupendous. It was a lot cooler out, before the sun was up. Navigation was a little iffy, in the predawn dark. We motored off one way, upstream, and fished for a spell, then ran down to Bull Creek, … Went fishing….
Ah yes, it helps to have a fishing buddy with the patience of Job. Job, the biblical character, not as in that other J-O-B word, the employment thing. Typing that word made me think of one of my all-time favorite books, too: [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345316509/fishinguideto-20]Job: a comedy of justice. Good book, too. Anyway, I’m grabbing a fishing … Gone Fishing – and some books
I’ve got to do something with that word – it’s been ten years now that I’ve been “on the road” like this. I think I’ve earned my tenure. Looking out the window, I can see the river’s surface. Looks like glass at this moment. The sun was just setting by the time I rolled into … Tenure
More from [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157322751X/fishinguideto-20]Bloom…. [i]c.f.[/i] California gubernatorial race &c. I was finished one chapter, looked for another, and in the table of contents, I saw my three plays listed as the “The Problem Plays,” most notably, [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140714863/fishinguideto-20]Troilus and Cressida. Bloom writes about [i]T&C[/i], “It is also the most difficult and elitist of all his works.” (page … Quick note to self –
