This is a picture, taken, of a pie's potential, before a taste is taken, all of its attributes tantalizingly dancing around, many scenarios battling for supremacy, the chance that it could fall short in flavor, texture, or taste, opposed to the possibility that it could make someone's day unexpectedly, all these and many more balanced precariously on a knife's edge as it plunges down towards cleaving the first slice...
We went to the Rivery for some disc golf today and noticed some great improvements at the course. Since the course was altered a couple of years ago and they didn't change the baskets around, the baskets have been misnumbered. They repainted the numbers recently.
They also fixed up some tee boxes.
Jon even did his part and carried out a discarded balloon.
Unfortunately, there has been some vandalism. Someone put shit on one of the baskets. Sigh.
This is a picture, not taken, while driving on a downward sloping interstate highway, of 3 vehicles traveling at a high rate of speed with their hazard blinkers on,weaving in and out of traffic,at the same time as others periodically changing lanes,making the highway field look like the red and yellow lights of a Christmas tree and the cars look like Pachinko balls bouncing back and forth as they fall towards Austin...
At BGG.con this year, there were some AWESOME, hand-painted crokinole boards! I normally hate finger-flicking dexterity games, but I would love to own the Dragon's Lair or Magicola board.
This is a picture, not taken, of a woman carrying around a small, black poodle like a football, nestled snugly in her arm, the dog looking around as people unknowingly jostled into it, more intent on shopping than the welfare of an innocent creature...
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This is a picture, not taken, of a large, heavy-set man browsing a display case of hats, picking up the bright-pink baseball cap with both the Superman logo and the word Jesus on it and contemplate trying in on...
I went to Wells Branch for some very easy disc golf today. I wanted to scope out a new disc golf course at Stoney Creek Park. But apparently they haven't started building it yet. Wells Branch was the fallback plan. This course is so short, it is easy to get birdies. And I got 6 of them...
There were a couple of changes to the course. A new bridge to nowhere was built. And they removed most of the fence that occasionally trapped our discs when we first started playing disc golf.
I went to Red Robin's for lunch and ate the Burning Love Burger (fried jalapeno slices, spicy seasoning, pepper jack cheese, and jalapeno cornmeal kaiser roll) and the Gingerbread Monster Shake. Both were pretty flavorful!
I went to Ventanas for lunch today. But first I paused for a bit to watch the removal of a bunch of Italian Cypress trees. Around half of them died this year. So the solution it seems is to remove all of them. One of the things that I hate about our site's policy is that they never replant trees. So sad. And so environmentally unfriendly...
I had the French Onion soup, an eggplant dish, and an apple tart. All of them were very tasty!
I definitely looked forward to trying out Wallace's new game. However, we got a really late start and only played out one of the three eras. Sigh.
Lately, I have been using Indian side dishes, packed in foil pouches, and stored in the pantry to compliment mixed frozen vegetables. Each of those boxes cost 2 dollars for 2 servings. And the Indian grocery store/restaurant that I go to, Teji's, has a selection of more than twenty of them.
At H.E.B., I buy bags of four frozen vegetables for around a dollar a piece: green peas, sweet corn, crinkle cut carrots, and broccoli & cauliflower. I can get 7 or 8 servings from them.
$12.50 for 8 meals is pretty darn cheap. There are 143 calories from the vegetables and an average of 145 calories from the side dish (a low of 80 to a high of 208).
Sigh. I forgot the lettuce at the store. But I wasn't going to let that stop me from using the bacon in a sandwich.
I didn't spend much time futzing around with the picture. But, looking at it afterwards, I know that I could have done better. The top of the bacon could have used a low angle, oblique flash to bring out the 3D texture.
Two swings, two misses. But at least the sandwich still tasted good...
It's time for the yearly German celebration around October. And, because there was a lot of German immigrants in Central Texas, there are some good places to go to. Unfortunately, I went alone this year. But I was still in a mood to go. Even after having gone recently to the Oktoberfest in Lantana.
I also wanted to stop by the New Braunfels Smokehouse. My eyes were certainly bigger than my stomach. I bought five pounds of peppered bacon, two and a half pounds of smoked boneless ham, and a half a pound of smoked cheddar cheese. When I got home, I immediately cut the bacon into three sections, wrapped two of them and put them into the freezer.
Savage Worlds, Thanksgiving edition from Mark Hamzy on Vimeo.
Another RPGer in our group, Joey, decided to host a Thanksgiving themed Savage Worlds event. We would create two characters. One would be a pilgrim, and one would be an Indian. This was interesting. It was good to see how another D.M. handles the game. And it was interesting to see another RPG system.
Jon and I took a vacation day off work for a disc golf road trip. We went to a new course down near the airport called the Metcenter. The course is really long and tough. And, since this used to be a pasture, it had rather rough and dimply ground. Most holes had two tees and had huge areas that were out of bounds (mostly from water hazards). We thought that, since this was a Friday, that the course would be empty. But, nope. Apparently most disc golfers are slackers. Which makes sense since they drink and smoke weed when they play.
I like how there was an old fire hydrant out in the middle of nowhere!
We ate lunch at Patsy's Cowgirl Cafe. Which served Independence Brewing Company's beer. And had some cool looking artwork outside.
After lunch, we headed to the Travis County East Metropolitan Park. Which holds another tough course. Although I did get one birdie on hole 6.
As an example of how tough this course is, there is one hole that has an island where the basket is located. With a six foot moat around it. Needless to say, we were a bit short on that one...
We played Wensleydale again when it looked like God's Playground might take too long.
Okay, I have to ask. What is a swamp boat doing here in Austin? That is something I would expect to see in Florida. Not the center of Texas...
