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  Jeff Forman 9:48 pm on October 15, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Austin (2), Texas, Travel (2)   

  Texas, The Damage Report. 

  Besides all the listed food, we had a blast in Texas. Watching the game in the parking lot of a bar with big screens and a ton of screaming intoxicated people. I both missed Austin and UT on one hand, but felt like I had moved on. I miss that school experience, that curiosity where people have 24 hours a day.

  And how can you go wrong beating OU 45-35?

  Friday Night:
  Arrival in Dallas, met friends out at a bar in the West End(?).

  Saturday (Dallas):
  Chef Salad for lunch at bar, wings, shrimp, beer.
  Football Win. UT 45, OU 35.

  Satuday Night (Austin):
  Dinner at Trulucks, Lobster, Mojitos, watch the Red Sox.

  Sunday:
  Breakfast at Juan in a Million. Migas are awesome
  Lunch at Central Market, double awesome
  BBQ dinner at Salt Lick with a local red wine. Nothing is better.

  Monday:
  Breakfast Kirby Lane on Guadalupe.

  ‘Hook Em

   

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  Jeff Forman 6:15 pm on October 12, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Austin (2), Food (5), UT   

  In Austin, catching up on life. 

  Finally taken my first vacation in a while with M. We came back to where I did my undergrad degree, the Univ of Texas-Austin in Austin, TX. I must say, it’s that odd feeling of knowing I don’t live here, but knowing my way around without thinking twice (okay, maybe a couple U-turns needed). It just so happens that it was ‘OU Weekend’, where UT plays OU in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl. Hung out with old UT friends in Dallas, then got on the road and headed down to Austin. M and I have been non-stop running around, from the old haunts, great eating/drinking, and just general catching up on what has happened here the past four years. Holy cow have things changed in West Campus, there are now huge apartment buildings everywhere!

  Tonight we’re off to Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood, which is an institution, actually where I had my graduation dinner. BYOB with a bottle of local red from Central Market, and we’re off.

  I want to blog more these days. With the market taking huge swings and reading personal finance blogs on the web, it makes sense to offer some of my tips that I’ve been doing since graduating to others who might be in my situation of thinking “How can I actually put money away?”

  For now, off to stuff ourselves full of BBQ.