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livingdebToday I've done something I've never done before and that's drive to the university on a (football) game day.
I have a new rule now: Never take a class meeting on campus on Saturdays in the fall.
I rarely drive to campus, and never during a work day because of the (lack of) parking situation. When I do drive, I tend to park behind the LBJ building at one corner of campus, which is always far away from where I am trying to go, but at least there's always a space.
If I were trying to park during a weekday, I would resort to a parking garage and pay large quantities of money. I think that it's a $7 maximum and that you get to the maximum pretty quickly, like two hours.
Today the parking garages were closed to people without permits. You couldn't even drive into campus without a permit. The entrances without guard stations just had uniformed guys standing in the street making people turn around and leave. I never would have guessed such a thing--my last-ditch worst-case scenario was not an option.
A lot next to my back-up parking lot (which is normally reserved for people going to the conference center) did have a few spaces in it, but there was a $10 fee to park there. And we paid it. This was a little after 12:30, and the game wasn't until 2:30.
When we got back to the truck at about 2:15, there were cars parked illegally (on the parts painted with yellow stripes). I can't believe they take $10 from people after all the legal spaces are gone. It's much more difficult driving through the maize of cars to get out of the lot with all those extra cars in there.
(Last week people in our class thought there was a game here, but there wasn't. The relatively crowded conditions that day, which weren't as bad as on a week day, were due to some kind of memorial service for Ann Richards.)
What are our other options? Campus buses don't run on Saturdays. Bicycles? With guitars? Not happening. The city bus? With guitars? And a one-mile walk each way? Maybe.
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Brief research shows a $2 shuttle that can be caught from free parking at the IF fields to very near the building where our lessons are. I don't recall those parking lots being all that large. Also, the research does not show how often the shuttles run, what time the different games are or even which ones are home games.
We did have a good lesson, though. We practiced our blues progressions and started on some riffs and some chords.
I have a new rule now: Never take a class meeting on campus on Saturdays in the fall.
I rarely drive to campus, and never during a work day because of the (lack of) parking situation. When I do drive, I tend to park behind the LBJ building at one corner of campus, which is always far away from where I am trying to go, but at least there's always a space.
If I were trying to park during a weekday, I would resort to a parking garage and pay large quantities of money. I think that it's a $7 maximum and that you get to the maximum pretty quickly, like two hours.
Today the parking garages were closed to people without permits. You couldn't even drive into campus without a permit. The entrances without guard stations just had uniformed guys standing in the street making people turn around and leave. I never would have guessed such a thing--my last-ditch worst-case scenario was not an option.
A lot next to my back-up parking lot (which is normally reserved for people going to the conference center) did have a few spaces in it, but there was a $10 fee to park there. And we paid it. This was a little after 12:30, and the game wasn't until 2:30.
When we got back to the truck at about 2:15, there were cars parked illegally (on the parts painted with yellow stripes). I can't believe they take $10 from people after all the legal spaces are gone. It's much more difficult driving through the maize of cars to get out of the lot with all those extra cars in there.
(Last week people in our class thought there was a game here, but there wasn't. The relatively crowded conditions that day, which weren't as bad as on a week day, were due to some kind of memorial service for Ann Richards.)
What are our other options? Campus buses don't run on Saturdays. Bicycles? With guitars? Not happening. The city bus? With guitars? And a one-mile walk each way? Maybe.
**
Brief research shows a $2 shuttle that can be caught from free parking at the IF fields to very near the building where our lessons are. I don't recall those parking lots being all that large. Also, the research does not show how often the shuttles run, what time the different games are or even which ones are home games.
We did have a good lesson, though. We practiced our blues progressions and started on some riffs and some chords.