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Oct. 16th, 2005 08:16 pmToday we brought a friend to El Chile, where he'd never been. He liked it. We had our same waitress as yesterday and she remembered all kinds of things. On the one hand, isn't that creepy and stalker like? On the other hand, though I remembered to order chicken instead of cheese, I forgot to say that I wanted extra beans instead of rice, but she remembered that I liked that. (Their rice is pretty greasy. The beans may be equally greasy, but at least they have fiber and don't glisten). So, that was awfully handy. I should remember that just because my memory for that kind of thing is virtually nonexistent, that doesn't mean everyone's is, and so she might naturally remember without taking an unnatural interest in us.
Then we brought our friend to the end of the Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail that he doesn't go on much. We walked for a while, then we veered off looking for where the River City Flyer train trip begins. There was no trip today because the train was being used for the Day out with Thomas. We got to see lots of children waiting in line to get their picture taken in front of Thomas, which is apparently a train engine that is a character in a kid's show or book or something. We got to see at least one kid being afraid of the photographer. We got to wave at lots of kids waiting in the train. We got to see another train engine tactfully attached to the back of the train.
We also happened to walk by the O Henry Museum, which none of us had visited before. This is the place to go if you would like a woman to tell you "Let's go to the bedroom." This was the first museum in Austin, but they must have been quite desperate for museums back then. (Some things never change.) It's a house that O Henry rented for a couple of years before he was accused of theft from his employer and left and was dragged back and put on trial and put in jail after which he never returned to Austin for some reason.
It's an interesting Victorian house with real shutters. It has some things he used, and some from friends and relatives, and some just from around the same period.
Then we brought our friend to the end of the Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail that he doesn't go on much. We walked for a while, then we veered off looking for where the River City Flyer train trip begins. There was no trip today because the train was being used for the Day out with Thomas. We got to see lots of children waiting in line to get their picture taken in front of Thomas, which is apparently a train engine that is a character in a kid's show or book or something. We got to see at least one kid being afraid of the photographer. We got to wave at lots of kids waiting in the train. We got to see another train engine tactfully attached to the back of the train.
We also happened to walk by the O Henry Museum, which none of us had visited before. This is the place to go if you would like a woman to tell you "Let's go to the bedroom." This was the first museum in Austin, but they must have been quite desperate for museums back then. (Some things never change.) It's a house that O Henry rented for a couple of years before he was accused of theft from his employer and left and was dragged back and put on trial and put in jail after which he never returned to Austin for some reason.
It's an interesting Victorian house with real shutters. It has some things he used, and some from friends and relatives, and some just from around the same period.