I'm back, and planning to actually use this profile for some networking. Hopefully some interesting posts soon. I want at the least to start reviewing restaurants and reporting on political events in Austin.

I am considering going to the "Vegetarian Social" event Monday night. It's only ten bucks and I have never tried the speed dating thing before. Mostly I would just like to meet some new people while eating good food. I'm really too tired to write on much of what I planned to discuss. Blah. I am hoping that after the madness of working two jobs through the holidays is over, I can start posting at least a weekly veg-oriented article on this blog. I have interesting ideas and I want to infest your… Continue

My dad was laying there on the hospital bed, pale and weak, helpless with a ventilator down his throat, forced to say "I love you" with the little bit of Sign Language he knew. In a few hours a surgeon would be splitting his chest open to perform a quintuple bypass and I had no idea whether or not I would ever see him again. He was only fifty years old and this was his second heart attack. That was a little over three years ago, and against all logic and sense my father is alive and well today.… Continue