This is Austin, Texas, and it's friggin' cold ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas, and the hot, chewy air is finally gone. This week, in fact! Our air is now coming to us directly from Canada, which appeals to me on many levels--except the one that makes it friggin' cold! (Yeah, yeah, I know. No room to grumble, but that never stopped me.) I actually saw leaves starting to change, which brings hope and ( Read more... )

This is still Austin, Texas, and it's not much cooler than it was ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas, where I'm still alive and well...and hoping you are same!

For the legion of fan dedicated to this haphazard collection of observations of a stranger in a strange land, my apologies for not updating in two months. Thankfully, I've been very busy. This full-time work thing is quite time-consuming, both a blessing and a royal ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas...and it's nice when my head isn't splitting open like a rotten cantaloupe ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas...and I WORK FULL TIME HERE!First off, please forgive the nearly two-month gap in entries. It's not that I haven't wanted to, but staring at a computer for eight hours a day tends to sap the desire to go home and stare at another computer a second longer. Secondly, to my faithful Oregon-based correspondents, well...you heard ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas, where numbers seem to be everywhere.

The biggest number is the age I will attain about two hours after I get to work in the morning. By the time anyone reads this, I will have turned 40. (I'm relatively secure in this assumption, insofar as I actually turn 40 at 4:38am, Pacific time, Monday and I don't think anyone will be ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas, where "hurry-up-and-wait" is being raised to an art form ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas, and it feels new again ( Read more... )

This is Austin, Texas, and I'm a reporter/anchor pro temporeYep, what was originally conceived by the now-former news director at the station has been confirmed by the current interim news director. I'm anchoring and reporting Mondays through Thursdays. I report during morning drive (radio's "prime time") and then anchor half-hourly newscasts ( Read more... )