Phone post: February 2005 Archives

As I drove out for lunch, I passed this sight. A Round Rock fire truck was spraying a lot of water behind a building. So, I decided to stop and take a picture. But when I got there, they had turned off the water. I wonder what they were up to?

A couple of weeks ago, I passed a somewhat new Hummer H2 towing a brand new black Corvette. This is obviously someone who has money to burn. Unfortunately, because it was the morning rush hour on IH-35, I was not able to take a picture.

Now, I come across this brand new black Corvette and wonder if that is the same person. But I do not ponder for long since the call of the hatch chile sauce is calling to me.

Update: This evening on my drive home. I passed a white van that had painted on the side: "Royal Norwegian Air Force Training" and towards the end of the van: "Apache division". How odd! What did they do? Drive here?!?!

I went to Central Market's cooking school tonight to learn how to make gumbo. This is a hands on class that has 16 people in it. They are divided up into four teams that will make: seafood gumbo, chicken gumbo, duck gumbo, and venison gumbo. I was on the team that made the venison gumbo. We cut the vegtables and followed the recipie, but due to time constraints the roux (4 different stages: blonde, peanut butter, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate) and the marinated meat were already prepared.

And this is the result! I think that this class is well worth taking. You definately eat a lot of food. We started out the night with spicy shrimp in remoulade sauce. They served Louisiana beer and played Cajun music. We then cooked and ate the four gumbos. After that, we topped it off with Blue Bell Mardi Gras ice cream and a cookie.

This tree speaks to me as I feed my beast. There must be hundreds of birds that live in the tree. They spend most of their time at night bickering amongst themselves. Or, could they be hurling insults at me and my beast and compete for the prized worm?

Gee, would I like to to buy this car. If only I was rich. Leif Johnson Ford is selling it for only $250,000 dollars (only $100,000 above MSRP).

While I was sitting at the light at Parmer and Metric, I witnessed a strange ritual that was held in the empty field next to a McDonald's. There was a group of 6 or so people that were standing in a small circle facing each other. They looked like they were doing some calisthenics. I imagine that they were holding some religious ritual that was possibly related to McDonald's.

It is a shame that the camera quality is so pathetic on this phone. A short movie would have exposed this unexpected cabal.