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Coming up this weekend:
- Star Trek – The movie premiers on May 7, 2009, but my department will have a day outing to go watch it on Friday. This is the first time I am excited to watch a Star Trek movie, I have never been into Star Trek and I don’t know the characters’ names (but I don’t know anyone’s name, fiction or not) or history, but this seems more exciting, modern and young. Wait for my review tomorrow.
- Austin Aztecs vs. Puerto Rico Islanders – These two teams play in the First Division – United Soccer League and will be playing Friday (05/07/2009) night. Austin is an expansion team in this league which includes teams from Vancouver, Miami, Montreal, Rochester and many others. The league will also be adding a couple of more teams next year from NY and Tampa. Puerto Rico and Austin played already once this season and Austin won in penalty kicks 3 – 0. Will Puerto Rico be looking for payback? I will be there to watch, but if you can’t make it, the game will be televised through Fox Soccer.
- Austin Zoo – V and I will be taking a little stroll through the Austin Zoo. Originally founded as a goat ranch and later an animal sanctuary; today, the Austin Zoo is home to over 300 animals across more than 100 species. We will be taking some pictures and practicing for our future visit to the San Antonio Zoo.
- Ikea and Home Work – We have a couple of home projects we want to get done, before our visitors arrive next week. That means extended stays at Ikea and some ‘screwing around’ the house.
Coming up this weekend:
- Shiner GASP – Saturday May 2nd, is the Shiner GASP (Great Austin to Shiner Pedal). A 100 mile bicycle ride starting in Austin, TX and culminating in Shiner; home to the Spoetzl Brewery. The Spoetzls are the brewers of the Shiner family of beers, pretty popular in these parts of town. This should be a friendly ride which rewards you as you get to Shiner with an all you can eat and drink party. Yup you heard right, all you can drink beer right out of the keg and all you can eat Texas BBQ. If it wasn’t for those pesky 100 miles in between Austin and Shiner this would be the best $50 investment you can make in this economy. Needless to say, I let my friend and girlfriend convince me that participating was a good idea; according to them, there will be busses picking stragglers along the road and giving them and their bikes a ride to the finish line. I’m counting in the later quite a bit…. because I don’t think I’m good for more than 20 to 30 miles. Either way, it will make for a good story so keep an eye out for blog post on this even and some photos.
- SHPE Volleyball Game – The annual SHPE Volleyball game between the Austin Professional chapter and the UT Student chapter will take place on Sunday, if weather permits. Although I should not play, it should be a fun activity to go watch and take some pictures.
- Multimedia Computer Setup – So I received my copy of Lightroom 2 on Tuesday and inherited a fairly powerful computer from V. So I will be installing Lightroom and migrating my whole photo library from a currently chaotic (almost non existence) system to a nice, organize and friendly environment… Let’s see how that works out. Don’t get me started with my music library, which will also be migrated.
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