Birthday Party
Oct. 6th, 2006 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday I went to a lovely birthday party at the cafe at Central Market, which is one of those places where you can order at a counter and then sit down, so people can come and go as they wish. Today I learned that their child-sized spaghetti and meatballs (a misnomer, since there was only one meatball) is too big of an order for me to eat. (In one sitting.) Crazy.
There was a band playing, Boxcar Preachers, and I think I like them, though I couldn't understand their vocals. Their music style is called "Americana," which is a term I've never heard applied to music before. It sounded like bluegrass and blues and swing. Their vocals (and washboard) reminded my of the Asylum Street Spankers--1920's blues and gospel. Very upbeat. Yes, blues can sound upbeat to me.
I couldn't quite catch a lot of the conversation, however. I did hear a story about a guy who bought a big piece of land near Enchanted Rock State Park for "half a million dollars," which sounds like a lot, but really it's just the price of a couple of average houses in town. You could imagine saving for a thing like that.
Enchanted Rock has large granite domes which formed when magma bubbles didn't quite make it to the surface of the earth, but then the surface earth eroded away, thus exposing them. This guy's property has three domes, two of which are covered in trees, but one of which is bare like the big one in the park. A road goes to one corner of the property, and that is the full extent of development. He's going to want to build a trail to the interior, build some bridges over some creeks, and a little cabin.
I got to hear someone's job hunting strategy. She's focusing traditional work hours on job hunting tasks and not worrying about it the rest of the time. She has several tasks that need to be done in a certain order. She has just finished her portfolio and will next work on her resume and then finally apply for jobs. Even though she could use some cash, she is not accepting freelance work at this time because it will just distract her from her primary goal of getting regularly paying work. It's good to know yourself well enough to be able to make these kinds of decisions properly.
There was a band playing, Boxcar Preachers, and I think I like them, though I couldn't understand their vocals. Their music style is called "Americana," which is a term I've never heard applied to music before. It sounded like bluegrass and blues and swing. Their vocals (and washboard) reminded my of the Asylum Street Spankers--1920's blues and gospel. Very upbeat. Yes, blues can sound upbeat to me.
I couldn't quite catch a lot of the conversation, however. I did hear a story about a guy who bought a big piece of land near Enchanted Rock State Park for "half a million dollars," which sounds like a lot, but really it's just the price of a couple of average houses in town. You could imagine saving for a thing like that.
Enchanted Rock has large granite domes which formed when magma bubbles didn't quite make it to the surface of the earth, but then the surface earth eroded away, thus exposing them. This guy's property has three domes, two of which are covered in trees, but one of which is bare like the big one in the park. A road goes to one corner of the property, and that is the full extent of development. He's going to want to build a trail to the interior, build some bridges over some creeks, and a little cabin.
I got to hear someone's job hunting strategy. She's focusing traditional work hours on job hunting tasks and not worrying about it the rest of the time. She has several tasks that need to be done in a certain order. She has just finished her portfolio and will next work on her resume and then finally apply for jobs. Even though she could use some cash, she is not accepting freelance work at this time because it will just distract her from her primary goal of getting regularly paying work. It's good to know yourself well enough to be able to make these kinds of decisions properly.