So SXSW starts today. I am at once nervous and excited and tired already. I don’t know what to expect this year, but that’s the point, right? I paid $200 walk-up for my Music wristband, so at least I can bounce out of venues if the band doesn’t grab me. But my trepidation is that …
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Twenty-Five In Five-One-Two
Today marks the 25th anniversary of moving to Austin on July 28, 2000. Twenty-Five years. A quarter century. That thumbheaded kid who pulled into town on a bleary, humid Friday morning with a job and a carload of hope is still somehow here. But he’s not a hopeful kid anymore — he’s grizzled. The dotcom …
QRT and 6th
One of the better aspects of #SXSW is that I preemptively take my ham radios out of my car. This allows me better peace of mind in that I can park it almost anywhere downtown during the festival and I don’t have to worry about other people taking my radios out for me.
Routes and Turns
Did some gasoline therapy after dinner. Drove down through the center of town and back up. Still surprises me how much this town has changed. I could bemoan the loss of the town that I loved. But that misses the mark. It’s nostalgia. The pain of knowledge. What I miss is all the opportunities for …
Five Want To
“So Shawn, why’d you move to Austin?” “Oh, you know, bigger town, greater opportunity, lots of stuff to do. I wanted to eat it all up and suck out the marrow. Live life!” “And have you?” “Hold on, man, I just got off work. I’m a little tired. Maybe tomorrow?”