Good Thursday Morning from Austin
Something awful went wrong in Angleton last night. According to the wife, power was lost to the entire town. Wasnt even a storm system in the area. Accordingly, all of my lab went down, including the server that hosts this blog.
I am sure no one even noticed, since almost zero people read this blog, but more importantly my email was down and access to other resources I host were also non-operable.
But, have no fear. Through the wonderful technology of the telephone, I called the wife and had her restart the main server. Everything else can wait until I return to my lair. The lab. The Garage.
I hate rude people. Do you? Went down to the little contenental breaksfast, (it is amazing what passes for breakfast under the guise of “contenental” isn’t it?) at the Bradford Homestyle Suites who have been accomodating me during this brief hiatus to the land of the young and liberal.
The breakfast quarters, which are tiny to begin with, are packed. People standing around talking. People sitting and enjoying their canned fruit and frozen Sam’s Choice waffles. And then there were a group of women, teachers I gathered from the brief snippets of conversation I overhead, who were sitting at one of the four–count ‘em, four–little tables enjoying a nice… conversation.
I stood at a little bar that ran along the foyer into the reception area. Another guy cleaned off a spot at the little phone kiosk for guests in the recpeption area to use. People were squeezing by the little table with the four little teachers having the little carefree conversation. How rude.
Then to top it off, once the place started to clear out a little bit and some table space was opening up, the little gaggle decided they could now relinquish the table. So they moved from their table to the hallway leading into the common area, effectively blocking it. As I shoved my way through them on my way out, I said [soto voce], but still audible if barely, fucking assholes. I am sure they were aghast and had no clue. After all they were teachers.
Now you can see why I find it so easy to make new friends.