Happy Covidversary? A whole calendar year ago, I started posting some virtual things to do … and a whole year later, we still need this (and a state of the covid address tonight…) If you need a good laugh about a purported side effect of the pandemic, read Break a Toe Recently? You’re Not Alone…
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I Hate Dates, But …
… here are five places I really, really want to go on a date, like, now. Could be a friend date, I don’t care. Monger’s moved into Vino Vino‘s old space (next to my gym!) and I want to get oysters + champagne STAT. Josephine House has a three-course steak + frites night with bottomless…
Perfect | Feel Good Friday 030521
The west Texas elopment was perfect. Every breakfast at Aster Marfa was perfect. Meeting Rice alum Roberto leading us to Garza Marfa for his Mimi y Roberto pottery was perfect. The family Sunday celebration brunch-into-hangout was also perfect. Sunday night cheese-and-wine catchup was perfect. My workouts this week were perfect. I hit 4 lifting days,…
Convo 51: The Mask and Personal Responsibility
Governor Abbott’s opening of Texas 100% and removal of mask mandate has caused a lot of reaction and opinion across the country. Hell, probably the world. Here’s the official summary of the announcement, and the PDF of the Executive Order. “… Today’s announcement does not abandon safe practices that Texans have mastered over the past…
Checklist 51
I spent too long writing Convo 51, reacting to everyone’s reactions to Texas lifting the mask mandate and occupancy restrictions. No surprise here, I’m in favor of freedom in life and nuance in perspective, which isn’t easily captured in a quip. Entertainment The drunk pandy blizzy ep of Sacks and the City podcast is live!…
Meet Derby, the Daughter Truck of Father-Daughter Trucks
Out with the MINI, in with the Tacoma! A few years ago, my dad searched for months to find an automatic, regular cab Tacoma, and had to settle for a red one even though he didn’t want that color. We’ve called it my truck ever since, although he paid for it and it lives at…
A Quarantine Crew Elopement | Feel Good Friday 022621
Does it feel like I’ve been skimping on the FGFs recently? Maybe. But today, I have a good excuse. I am in west Texas ministering/best manning/maid of honoring my brother and now-sister-in-law’s wedding at this gorgeous chapel. More to come. Just know that I am exceptionally grateful for this compound, this family.
Checklist 50
It’s been 50 weeks of this checklist, more weeks for most people locking down. Perhaps it’s fitting then that I’m off for a pandemic elopement in West Texas with my quarantine crew… and I’m too tired and stressed to post any controversial articles today. On to links to click! Entertainment This imagining is super cool:…
Pandy Blizzy | Feel Good Friday 021921
It snowed. And stuck. In Austin, Texas. I have more to say, but today, I’m grateful for community. Family, friends, neighbors, strangers, COMMUNITY. Ices, dinners, randos, stranded motorists. Austin has never felt more like home. Also, Nali remembers CO.
Checklist 49
Well, this checklist should be focused on snowpocalypse things to do, because … well, it’s a pandy blizzy in Austin. Alongside snow that’s sticking, power outages (not here), and a boil-water notice, there’s a lot of commentary making social justice issues out of … things that aren’t. Not understanding why we can’t focus on the…