This whole month was such a collusion of activities and events that I just decided to sort of pile it all into one blog post. Here’s the highlights:
I kind of like swing music, so when I heard the Squirrel Nut Zippers were doing a show at Miller Outdoor Theater I decided to go. Nobody else wanted to go! Losers! Oh well, whatever. I went by myself. Much to my surprise, the opening act was a band called “Shiny Ribs” which turned out to be quite a hoot! I’ve since learned they are a sort of a thing in Texas. Hailing from Austin, they make the rounds and have developed a pretty big following.
Here’s one of SNZ’s hit songs:
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After much anticipation and waiting, Cafeza finally opens across the street from our house! Yeah, we now have a hip new coffee shop to hang out and be all cool and stuff. It seems to be an instant hit. I see customers over there all day and night.
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Jose gets his surgery!
After a year of dealing with doctors and clinics and paperwork and, worst of all, recurring kidney stone pain…Jose finally got his checked into LBJ Hospital on a Friday and had the kidney stones removed via laser. He was worried and fretting before the surgery mainly because of… well,… where the laser gets inserted… As you can see from the picture, it looks a little unpleasant. OMG.
But I reminded him this is way better than the old method of actually cutting a person open and digging out the stones with knives.
The hospital was very attentive and assuring and took care of him quite well. He was in considerable pain afterward and somewhat stoned on pain medication, but he was released later that same day and spend the rest of day sleeping. He spent all of the next day sleeping too, but by Sunday he was much better and kind of bored.
By Monday, he was completely fine and ready to work. No more pain! No more kidney stone problems – hopefully forever!
We celebrated with a ride on some Go-Karts.
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Ivy and Romeo go to the Circus!
Well, they go to a Circus show at Miller Outdoor Theater. It was the Phare Cambodian Circus on tour and performing at MOT for just one night. Most of the kids in this circus are underprivileged and disadvantaged, but this Circus takes them in and gives them education and training. They even get to go on tours and see the world! Good deal for them.
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Jane returned from her trip to South Dakota where there is no food and no one fed her anything (not really), so we picked her up from the airport and took her out to eat and fatten her up at one of our favorite places – Sweet Tomatoes!
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I also took Romeo and Ivy to an event called “Jurassic Quest” at NRG arena. It turned out to be a bit of a disaster! As soon as we arrived, the event was shut down due to a fire. The fire was put out and eventually the event opened again, but it was more than an hour wait to get tickets. Once inside it was super-crowded and noisy, and we had to wait in lines again to do anything. By the time we left the kids were cranky, Romeo was mad at Ivy, Ivy was being a turd, and I was tired and annoyed. I don’t think we’ll be doing Jurrasic Quest again anytime soon. It’s a great idea, but managed and executed very poorly.
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