{"id":106870,"date":"2024-05-17T12:08:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=106870"},"modified":"2024-06-08T13:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T17:55:24","slug":"friday-night-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2024\/05\/17\/friday-night-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – Austin !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Diane and I spent the day re-aquiniting ourselves with the shiny new Austin we were visiting. We started with a really nice longish run along \u00a0both sides of the Colorado river. There are great dirt running trails on both sides.

I came back to see a social media post showing my good friend John S getting his doctorate. It is so good to see him done !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our main destination this morning was the Museum of the Weird. It’s on Austins party street – 6th street.. I’ve always walked by.. but never walked in. It was in a creepy old building with lots of cool\/campy exhibits .. kind of like ripples believe it or not.\u00a0

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Next stop was out to see our good friends Carl and Brynn. Carl and I worked together closely for many years at IBM. He retired several years ago.. and now spends all of his time pursuing his hobbies and being with his family.. I get the family part, but it looks like I need to develop some hobbies if I’m going to try that

Carls main hobbies are model railroading and restoring old pinball machines. He’s dedicated much of his house to those hobbies.. including fancy 3d printers to build pros for his trains.. and an electronic shop where he builds custom printed circuit boards to control his trains. \u00a0 In fact it was carls PCB work that inspired me to cook up OnBoard with hack club !.

We had a great time eating lunch (carl picked up Chum’s at our request again .. can’t get enough !)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was great catching up with Brynn and Carl.. they’ve been so great spreading samstone around the world when they travel for their cruises<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We spent the rest of the afternoon walking around Austin.. and exploring the sights.. as grown up as its gotten.. Austin is still pretty funky ! \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We tried to watch the bats come out under the congress street bridge.. but no bats to be seen tonight.. but some great people watching !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last event for the day was the informal get together before Josh’s wedding. It was a great way to meet up with family and old friends. We got some time to talk to the parents of the groom.. our good friends and cousins Kathy and Mark \u00a0, Marks sister Gail and Brother Steve
(Marks grandmother was my great great \u00a0aunt Keenie) \u00a0(I will get pictures of Steve tomorrow !) \u00a0Also saw our friends Tim and Anne from Vermont and my friend Mike Conncannon’s wife ( can’t remember her name ! \u00a0 super nice) \u00a0Mike died quite a few years ago.. it was nice to meet his wife<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also met some new cousins.. \u00a0Jonn and his wife (argh.. name ?) .. who joined us for some late night tacos..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s fun being down here !<\/p>\n

nite all nite sam\u00a0<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diane and I spent the day re-aquiniting ourselves with the shiny new Austin we were visiting. We started with a really nice longish run along \u00a0both sides of the Colorado river. There are great dirt running trails on both sides. I came back to see a social media post showing my good friend John S … Continue reading Friday night – Austin !<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107421,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106870\/revisions\/107421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}