not much to do in austin

since i’m out in austin this week, i decided to stay the weekend to enjoy the town, and hmc flew out today as well.

unfortunately things are fucked up at work, and so instead of spending a nice friday night in austin with my honey, i spend until 2am in a data center. whee!

it’s too bad, since there wasn’t much to entertain hmc while i was working on friday night. oh, unless you count the 10th annual republic of texas bike rally, that is.

20 thousand bikers in town, partying, parading, and raising hell. normally staying in a hotel in downtown austin is nice and convenient to sixth street, the main drag. this weekend it’s like sleeping on the center oval of the indy 500.

if that wasn’t enough, there’s a hacker conference in town as well. they’ve got a little table in the lobby, where they’re selling little hacker t-shirts, amidst all these bikers and biker babes carousing around.

as a show of support, we buy one of their t-shirts, that says “All my xterms -DISPLAY in Texas”.

somehow, we have no problem distinguishing the hacker conference attendees from the biker rally attendees.

oh, and did i mention the gay pride parade going on tonight?

it’s too bad there’s nothing to do in this little one horse podunk town.

Posted at June 4, 2005 9:22 PM