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We've entered the season I like to call "really fucking hot". Like, when you go outside the sky mashes you down and you sweat like a pig and fight the impulse to run back inside. I think I was probably genetically built for colder climes, but I'm here and I'm staying, so I put up with it. It will last into September.
It helps that there's plenty of swimming opportunities around. I have a park pass for Travis County so I like to hit the one by the lake and swim. It's a bit of a hike down to the limestone shelves that surround this man-made lake, and because of the drought it's even more of a mountain-goaty clamber down to the lake itself. But the water is clear and warming up nicely and absolutely teeming with fish (sun perch, I think, among others) who will try to eat you if you sit still in the shallows long enough. That's probably more amusing than I make it sound.
I went yesterday, swimming and sitting in the shade to read and swimming some more. Then home for some grub, and Bob visit. He used to practically live here when he first came to Austin, but he got a girlfriend, moved south, and made many cool and insane friends to hang with. So it was nice to see him and catch up, along with his friend Adam who was mostly quiet but occasionally made a really smart-ass funny comment.
Today, I plan to try to put together the Trad website. I rashly volunteered to do it, thinking "how hard could it be? I know total morons who have websites." Well, there's putting up a website, and there's putting up a good website, and doing the latter actually takes a knowledge of programming that I don't happen to possess. I've been clinging to Eric's ankle and whining, but he's trying to get a very rudimentary understanding of how this works into my brain. I'm going to hack away at it today. Soon, I may be able to ask "where is the bathroom?" in html. Wish me luck.
It helps that there's plenty of swimming opportunities around. I have a park pass for Travis County so I like to hit the one by the lake and swim. It's a bit of a hike down to the limestone shelves that surround this man-made lake, and because of the drought it's even more of a mountain-goaty clamber down to the lake itself. But the water is clear and warming up nicely and absolutely teeming with fish (sun perch, I think, among others) who will try to eat you if you sit still in the shallows long enough. That's probably more amusing than I make it sound.
I went yesterday, swimming and sitting in the shade to read and swimming some more. Then home for some grub, and Bob visit. He used to practically live here when he first came to Austin, but he got a girlfriend, moved south, and made many cool and insane friends to hang with. So it was nice to see him and catch up, along with his friend Adam who was mostly quiet but occasionally made a really smart-ass funny comment.
Today, I plan to try to put together the Trad website. I rashly volunteered to do it, thinking "how hard could it be? I know total morons who have websites." Well, there's putting up a website, and there's putting up a good website, and doing the latter actually takes a knowledge of programming that I don't happen to possess. I've been clinging to Eric's ankle and whining, but he's trying to get a very rudimentary understanding of how this works into my brain. I'm going to hack away at it today. Soon, I may be able to ask "where is the bathroom?" in html. Wish me luck.
