With a weekend round up of being a tour guides to friends:
- The Sixth Floor Museum is really neat in a morbid sort of way.
- Despite many frames of the Zapruder film being on display throughout the place, the famous "head shot" is no where to be seen. I suppose that makes sense.
- It's amazing the number of people that come to the grassy knoll on a daily basis -- and they can always tell where Kennedy was hit by gunfire on the street because there is an "X" painted on the pavement. Really.
- There was one guy standing around proclaiming that he was there on the day the shots were fired. My conclusion: Nut Case.
- Traffic in the metroplex is getting unbearable.
- Took my friends to Angelo's on Friday night and they got to witness a drunk and arguing couple tip the waitress $100.
- Most awkward couple moment: The girl telling the waitress, "He's not my boyfriend. He's my brother. Well. Kinda."
- And then I actually set foot in Billy Bob's on a Friday night. Not much has changed over the years except guys are no longer required to wear the uniform of starched shirts and ropers.
- They don't have Whataburger's in the northeast (where my friends were from), so we had to stop by there at midnight.
- Went by the Gaylord Texas on Saturday and it's already decked out for Christmas. Even if you don't spend a dime there for anything other than parking, go walk around that place. Amazing.
- And who did I see in the lobby at around 10:00 p.m.? Cowboy's Patrick Crayton. He was just sitting down and talking to kids. (Apparently the hotel is where the Cowboys stay before home games.)
- That night we went to the Glass Cactus (last reported on by Jarhead a few months back.) Downstairs is a beating. Upstairs is people watching gold.
- Went to the Cowboy game yesterday. Parking and getting in and out is pretty much a breeze. And the game presentation is just short of Idiocracy --- and that thing is printing money.
- But the game would be more enjoyable if the two people behind us would shut the heck up. It was like listening to bad color commentary including such gems as, "We need to put our fast players on that guy to cover him!"
- And I bought the tickets from Stubhub and was almost rewarded with a game that almost had zero touchdowns.
- I'm tired of eating out for three days in a row.
- I can't sleep when I'm responsible for waking other people up.
- On to other things:
- I predicted New Moon would set all box office records, and I was close. It had the third best opening weekend ever with $140 million.
- I just saw a commercial staged as a news story on NBC 5 about 24 Hour Fitness providing free personal trainers this week.
- The Texas Lawyer newspaper has an article on leasing issues in the Barnett Shale.
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With a weekend round up of being a tour guides to friends:
