We started the week with Julie’s band “Mercury Daze” play 3 Alanis Morrisset covers at Stubb’s. We then ate some BBQ and header over to the Moody for Nine Inch Nails. Our paid parking didn’t pan out, we couldn’t find a parking space we could fit in in the parking garage, but we found a parking space right outside the parking garage on the street - for FREE. The show was amazing. I went with Julie and Stella went with two of her friends. We met up after for pictures.

On Monday I weedwacked the front yard to get it ready for the spring clean out.

I’ve been working on a really hard, but fulfilling project at works so my brain has enjoyed the yard work.

Tuesday night Top Chef returned to TV so Julie and I started back up on that. On Thursday we went to trivia at Koko’s Bavarian. We were “Johnny Harmonica and Friends”. Callum had gotten a tiny harmonica at Austin Creative Reuse and every time they annouced our score he would play it. The last time the announcer heard the sound and was completely wigged out because she couldn’t see the harmonica. We all really dug the trivia types, it had unique categories like “Sephora”, and at one point the annoucer read the entire proclamation declaring chili the state dish of Texas. And that’s the kind of nerdiness that the Thomas’ are always looking for. I had a preztles and some fries and Non-Alcoholic Guinesses.

This is important, because on Thursday I had dude night with Mark and Sean. And I had a pretzel and some NA Guinesses at Koko’s. I really wouldn’t mind seeing how many nights I can go out and drink NA Guiness and eat a pretzel.

Friday night I had to pickup Callum after a theater performance because Stella had come home and used the car for an internship interview. We ordered McDonalds, only to get there and realize Callum had only ordered himself a meal (assuming I had already eaten). So I ordered another meal while sitting in the pickup space. They brought both out at the same time. Clearly this was not the first time this had happened at McDonalds.

Saturday I pulled a ton of hedge parsley out of the yard and continued our cleanup. A large branch had fallen off our retama so I had to break that down as well. We went to see the UIL play at Crockett that Callum had co-designed costumes for. Then dinner at home and we watched “Blue Moon”.