You know we'll have a good time then
I'd spent time in Austin in the early nineties and liked it then, but this time, doing my solo show at their improv festival, I had an especially good time.In 1993 I'd visited my friend Navin's sister in medical school. The group of us went to a restaurant called the Oasis on Lake Travis, drank margaritas (I date my going steady with alcohol to this point) and watched the sun go down over the mountains. When the sun went down, people cheered (because they were fearful of the sun, being primitive).
I have always thought of Austin fondly because of this.
This weekend was a lost weekend because I was traveling solo as well, leaving my wife with her mother and my daughter with hers. I worry what I'll find when I get back; it would be terrible if all my hard behavioral and social conditioning work had been undone in the course of a weekend.
I won't bore you with figures about how little money a nice home with its own shooting range can be purchased for here, but I will say Austin remains an excellent walking city with an (antedeluvian) New Orleans feel to it. The University is right up the street and I met about ten people who said they came fdrom other places and would "never leave" Austin. The city is a liberal-enough island in the middle of Texas.
About a hundred people from the festival played miniature golf on Saturday. Most were from improv groups; I was one of three solo shows. The kids in the picture were all about 15. The boy on the left had been grounded for having alcohol in his room. He said that, if he hadn't lied about where he got it, the punishment would have been worse. We weren't able to get out of him where he got it, because it was time to hit the links.
Today is Marisol's first birthday. I'm spending most of it flying back to her. I am going to buy her some authentic Texas gin at the airport.
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by Marty Barrett at Sunday, September 11, 2005
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Thanks for coming to Austin, Marty! We were excited to have you, and we'd take you back any time! Hope you had a wonderful party for Marisol's first birthday.
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