Misc

I walk up to the counter and say “this may seem strange, but…” They tell me that no, the meats won’t be done cooking until 10:30am. But they are doing breakfast tacos with the diced sausage from the day before. So I ask if I can get just the diced sausage, without the eggs and the tortillas, figuring something is better than nothing. The cashier says, “Hmm… sure, but we charge by the taco. Let me get the manager and see what we can do.”

The manager comes over, says in effect that this sort of thing happens all the time, and arranges for some of the sausages to be liberated early from cooking since they cook much faster than the other meats. So I ended up stuffing four full links (for non-Austin folks, a full link is around 9 inches long and 1 inch thick) into the cooler bag, then getting ice from the drinks machine. I forgot to get a fresh bottle of sauce though. Kristen and Elena had Rudy’s sausage for lunch once I got back, and they were happy. 🙂

At the airport, I ended up having breakfast with Eric Goldberg, whom I hadn’t gotten to really talk to during the conference, so that was nice.

The thing my wife and kids wanted me to bring back from Austin? Rudy’s barbecue. Yes, the meat, not the sauce. They equipped me with a cooler bag, Ziploc bags to pack into it with ice, and orders for the brisket, the turkey, and of course, sausage links.

Last night I went by there as soon as I could, right after dinner. I was 40 minutes too late–they were closed.

This morning, my flight from Austin to San Diego is at 10:30am. It is 7:52 right now. I am checking out, driving up to Rudy’s in hopes that I can actually buy the regular meats when they open for breakfast at 8:30, then driving down to the airport. If they can’t sell me the meats, I intend to beg.

I step off the plane in Austin, and there’s Samantha LeCraft, in town for the Austin Game Conference. Every time I come back to Austin I am reminded how it still has that small town vibe to it…

As you might see if you look over to the left, Kristen kindly entered every single news post from the old website. Now we have a nice substantial archive section…

Yep, I’ve got my own domain. It only took ten years or so…

Anyway, I’ll be moving over all the content from the LegendMUD site eventually… But for now it’s still all over there. Hopefully, when we move it all, we’ll be able to redirect every page to the right place, but given how big the site is, I can’t make any guarantees…

Keep an eye on this space for the official opening. It’ll be… well, whenever we actually finish. 🙂