I heard everyone else leave in the morning. I awoke around 10 or 11 when Grauer left, and he gave me his key and told me some chill places I could check out. I promptly forgot everything he told me, and just enjoyed lounging in the AC with no cares. This was the first time in a week or so I had no responsibilities to attend to (like move furniture, or leave a campgrounds by a certain time). And I didn't have to worry about my tent becoming unbearably hot! It was awesome not doing anything. Gary came home during lunchtime, and made me a tomato/cheese/zuccini sandwich. Then I fell asleep on the couch for several hours. Mmmm, sleep. About 5 or 6 I wandered to the nearby 7-11 to get some powdered donuts and a Coke slurpee. The thing nearly melted during the 5-minute walk back to the pad.
Monica came back shortly thereafter, and got mad at me for eating donuts for breakfast. But Steve came to my defense pointing out donuts are a common breakfast item at many places. We then cooked up some lentils with rice and 'taters, and cumin and other eastern spices. It came out really good. Mmmmmm... Monica was judging how cheap the meal was, and how cheap it could be, and I wondered why she was wondering about such things with her [probably] huge salary.
When Grauer came home, we all went for a drive around the town. And dammit, I forgot my camera, so there's not many pictures here. We went out to a scenic mountaintop along the Colorado River, then drove past Trilogy, Monica's old workplace and stomping grounds. Now she works for some Megalithic Corporation called CyberCorp, or something scary like that. We then went to a nice coffeeshop by the water, and were going to get some food, but it was all $uper expen$ive, so we decided to eat ice cream at home.
Next to the coffeeshop we saw something really cool. A "Meditation Center". But of course, we all misread it, it was really a "Mediation Center", which seemed typical of what I've seen of austin. it's all corporate yuppie commercial places geared towards the "young professional". It seems that the influx of commerce brings all this development, which makes the city lose it's soul.
Went back to Monica's, and she went to sleep to get to work early the next day. Steve, Grauer, and I talked for a long time about various things. Grauer then presented his theory of the female horizontal buttcrack, and the associated top and bottom buttcheek. The horizontal buttcrack became a theme for the next few days, who'd have thought that orthogonal buttocks alternatives would be so popular?
| Location | Austin, TX |
| Odometer | 132,063.8 Miles Total 3310.1 Miles On Trip 0 Miles Today |
| Coordinates | 30° 16.8' N 97° 45.0' W |