Waltz Across Texas
Where to begin? It has been a while since I have written anything here. Texas has been a challenge to say the least. I have never been in heat and humidity like that before, absolutely ridiculous. The slightest physical exertion and you would sweat through your clothes. Then there was the customer. Somehow they got it in their head that we did something that we don’t do. I have no idea how they got that idea. Never in the 10 months of negotiations did we ever discuss what they now seemed to think we were going to do. The result was I ended up doing about 10% of the work I thought I would do. I still came out in the black for the trip but the check is missing a few zero’s. It was not a total loss. Now there is no doubt as to what we will be doing on future visits and I was able to meet all the branch managers face to face. Always a good thing.
I am now in the Denver Airport waiting for a flight to Vegas where I will see Slayer, Lamb of God, Mastodon, and Children of Bodom. Hell yeah. The best part is I will be meeting up with Swill and Mistress Nikki. Swill being the connected internet mogul that he is was able to procure back stage passes for us as well. I am so excited I can hardly sit still.
I have been here in Denver since Thursday. I drive straight from Austin to get here. 20 hours including stops. Anyway I have been mooching at Mike’s house, eating his food, watching cable and wearing out my welcome. We met up with Patria Thursday for some killer fish taco’s. Mike has been having a good summer avoiding work and training for Ironman Canada. Patria is taking full advantage of the fitness she gained at Gila and is in the middle of a winning streak. It was fun to hang with them again. Yesterday Mike and I met his friend Troy at a lake and went out on his Hobie Cat which was pretty cool even if we were lacking some wind. On the way home again scored some kick ass Mexican food and chowed down on the porch Mike scored on Craig’s List. Then the fun really began. We got on our bikes and went to check out a really cool local band The Railbenders. These guys play country. Not Nashville pop country but real country, like Jesse Dayton or Hank III. They have a great song about how Texas sucks, it really hit home for me. We met some lovely ladies, danced badly and rode home with huge grins at 2am. After the bummer that Texas was I am really glad I made the stop here, it has done wonders for my attitude. OK they are starting to board my flight gotta run.
