Yesterday I started the day with a run with some of my homies. We’ve done this for 8 years now, since Chad, Scott and I went on our first Circle C Run Club official group run together. It’s the clubs longest-standing group run.
Early in the afternoon Elise and I went on a sporadic “date.” We went to Suds Monkey for pepperoni rolls and a beer for Elise. That was relatively inexpensive and fun, unlike most everything else in Austin which has become expensive, crowded, and not fun. I was still hungry, so we drove down the road (mind you we’re in what’s probably considered Dripping Springs, not Austin, but is pretty much a ‘burb of Austin now) to Dos Olivos and ordered off the brunch menu. We had barbacoa donuts, chicharrones nachos, and patatas bravas, and a glass of wine for Elise. That was also fun, and a little more pricy, but a lot less expensive than what we could’ve spent for the same food and ambiance on the other side of the county line.
Then we spend a good hour at Breed & Co. just browsing and procuring supplies to re-seal the girls’ bathtub. A couple more errands, and then over to Iram’s house to help him pickup some firewood.
By the time we got home, I was hungry again, so Mara and I went to HEB. She wanted stuff to make some kind of quesadilla breakfast sandwich thing. I bought dough so I could make my own pepperoni rolls. Can’t have too many pepperoni rolls in one day.
On our way to HEB Mara played Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. I mean, that’s cool when your 13 year old listens to that album. The theme of our trip to the grocery store was music. I think they were playing Foo Fighters at HEB. I told Mara that the best thing to come out of Nirvana was Dave Grohl. Well, that and the pioneering of the grunge music genre. She told me that two years ago all of the kids at school thought that Nirvana was a clothing brand. I guess because throwback Nirvana shirts were popular for us Gen Xers and our children.
I then told her the story about how Matt and I saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform at the Unicorn in Houston in 1991. The opening act was a new band called Pearl Jam, and that there was a photo published in a music magazine from that concert where Eddie Vedder was crowd surfing. The photo was taken as Eddie was above yours truly, and we were grasping each other’s hands.
Mara said, “I can’t believe you’ve never told me that story before!” And we listened to the Foo Fighters on the way home from the grocery story.
