Surprise! Daylight Saving Pushed Back One Week by 2005 Energy Conservation Act

If you turned your clocks back one hour Sunday morning thinking it was the annual move back to Standard Time, all you succeeded in doing was moving into a new time zone.

The move from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time doesn’t happen this year until the first Sunday in November, instead of the usual last Sunday in October.

That means computer software, cellphones and other electronic equipment that is programmed to automatically change will have to be manually reset Monday morning back to Daylight Saving Time, then changed back one hour next Sunday.

President Bush in 2005 signed the Energy Conservation Act, which pushed back the time change in an effort to squeeze just a little more daylight — and a bit of energy savings — into the daily lives of Americans.

The legislation also changed the “spring forward” to Daylight Saving Time, which next year will be on March 9.

Government estimates place the overall energy savings at just over 1 percent.

Fox.news.com

Hey look! I’m in a photo for TV on myspace!

Ahhh, fame.

Har.

Checking for work….and then I saw my very own face. Still no word on when our episode will air.

We’re about the fifth photo on the slideshow.

Treasures and stories

Today we discovered that there is a branch of the Austin Library twenty paces from our new abode. We stopped in a got library cards with the help from an amiable and thourough librian (though you wouldn’t be able to discern his ‘amiable’ traits from his frowning identification name tag).

Next, we hit up an estate sale.
The dead woman’s house held an abundance of treasures…artifacts of decades of lavish lifestyle. I tried on half of her closet and was filled with giddy greed as all of the zippers of her gorgeous vintage dresses glided easily over my hips and bust. I bought two perfect handmade garments from the 1950’s, both totalling under $20.

We bought sweet little apple shaped kitchen bowls. Vintage folding poker chairs. A silver gilded picture frame. A black and white print of a neo-classic armouir.

Random treasures.

We walked across the street to a garage sale and struck up a conversation with the sponser. In the midst of our chat, our eyes fell on a broquade upholstered swivel chair; priced $35.

Turns out, she ’supports the arts’. The chair was ours at no cost to us.

A little conversation with good people goes a long way.

Classifieds – The Austin American Statesman

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7030-Excotic Animals
Hand Tamed Babies Sugardlider $150,
Flying Squirrel $125
Hedgehog $60
(210)-241-1856

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6280 -Food Products
Bison meat, resonable prices, 512-346-3374

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6235-Clothing
Beautiful never worn designer wedding dress by Venus w/access. $600 neg. Call 512-826-6981

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What is a sugarlider?

Where do flying squirrels live?

Do hedgehogs always wear hats?

Is this a bison meat locker?

If you’re going to be abandoned at the altar, be sure to be wearing a designer dress.

Austin is not Boston, and its not New York.

No autumn winds nick your neck here.

Seasons are but shadows,

summers in disguise.

At the Cafe

 

 

Pouring the fifth cup of coffee for Michael,

a spanish-language-comparative-literature professor,

we quickly conversed about our childhood roots in Northern California.

Forty years ago,the Weed High School football team beat

the Willits High School football team.

He’s writing a book. I’m an actor. And we talked.

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Funny:

House-mate Jesse has a flame ‘retarded’ mattress.

He never knew the right word existed.

Good News

An apartment….

with a garden that attracts butterflies. Lots o’ butterflies.

Local Food, Global Love

I start a new job tomorrow. Waitressing at the Counter Café on 6th and Lamar. It will be a familiar routine…serving Sunday brunch to hungry and sometimes hungover customers, but this place has the potential to be awesome. For starters, their slogan is ‘Local Food, Global Love’, an ideology that that I admire and appreciate both as a server and as a diner.

Secondly, the place is TINY. No joke. Its cute and quaint with its five 2top tables and ten counter stools…..I’m certain I could handle a ‘full’ restaurant by myself.

Thirdly, and perhaps most awesomely, the place is owned and operated by the friendliest mid-fifties hippie couple ever. They go to Burning Man. Way hip.

Here’s their blurb:

 

“We are proud to offer high-quality down home diner creations with a gourmet twist. By cooking with natural and organic ingredients and with locally-sourced products when available, we celebrate the food awakenings of the counter culture revolution at the new-and-improved counter of one of Austin’s former legendary diners.”

A happy review:
10/04/2007 5 star rating

it’s really, really, really great food
with really, really, really great people
making it a really, really, really great place
locally sourced, organic, inventive, I love it!
that quail got me, but if you’re veg, don’t worry, they’ll make sure you leave with your tummy full and your conscience at ease
(hey, we’re all in this together! time to make the world a healthier, happier place without looking like a bunch of bleedin’ hippies!)
GO!”

A few menu items:

Counter Benedict – $9
Two perfectly poached egs & seared pastrami atop a house made biscuit. Served with breakfast potatos and hollandaise sauce

Breakfast Tacos – $4
Two fresh flour or corn tortillas stuffed with local farm fresh scrambled eggs, bacon, potatos, & cheese. Served with a side of pico de gallo.

Roasted Vegetable Sandwich – $8
Roasted zucchini & red peppers, grilled portobellos, feta cheese & sun dried tomato sauce on a hippie hoagie bun. Served with your choice of house side salad, Counter fries, seasonal fruit, or cup of soup.

Polenta Fried Oysters – $8
Fresh Pacific polenta & buttermilk-breaded oysters served with red onion, capers, lemon aioli, & sun dried tomato dipping sauces

Grilled Bandera Quail – $12
Hill Country quail grilled to perfection, nestled atop a bed of baby spinach salad hand tossed in a house made balsamic vinaigrette with feta, strawberries & red onion.

Thursday Friday Night Lights

Let’s go Lions, Let’s go!

Luke and I were extras last night on the NBC television show ‘Friday Night Lights’. Initially, we sat in the bleachers amongst 300 red clad ‘fans’ but eventually were were plucked from the crowd and moved down to the sideline to fill in the field shots.

We hollered. We hooted.
We jumped. We rooted.

Although pep went to pot when the shoot wore into the wee hours.

Look for us on the episode where the Laribee team plays on the Dillon field (Laribee H.S. was wiped out by a tornado).

Tonight I sit with a neighbor’s poly-amourous cat wrapped around my bosom. The adolescent feline kneaded and suckled my polka-dot skirt then steadfastly fell into a purr-centric sleep nestled under my left breast. He seems to content to sleep on the futon with us, and though this may be considered cat-napping, we’re letting him stay the night.

Perhaps he is my ‘lucky-cat’ incarnated.

The next kitten I own will be named ‘whiskey-six-ech0-india-pa-pa-pa-pa’ (any of those names will do for short) in remembrance of my grandfather’s V-W van and Hamm radio sign-on.

Also, in light of my lucky-cat affirmation….

I read an interesting Q&A with a Swami at the back of a ‘Living Naturally’ magazine. A reader asked why his affirmations to the universe about changing his poor financial situation were going unanswered. The Swami responded that lamenting to the universe that it is awful to be broke and that you don’t want to be poor is like asking for more of the same. You’re extending energy that is only affirming that same energy.

“I don’t want to be broke (or _______fill in blank) ” is different than the positive alternative of “I AM wealthy (or ______fill in blank). According to the Swami, if you believe you already have what it is that you want, the powers that be respond in kind.

So here it goes:

I share an apartment with my boyfriend that is affordable, beautiful, and centrally located.

I have a job that I enjoy and that I am good at.

I have the means to live comfortably.

I have the inspiration to be creative and artistically fulfilled.