My job at Biltmore ended and I started the search for a job. Sadly none really showed themselves for a while. I have been hemorrhaging money like crazy, and applying to jobs like mad. I eventually found one job, but the hours are not proving to be very helpful, so I started looking for another job and found it at Target. That job only lasted two days though because the job caused my forearms to hurt like crazy, putting me out of commission for just under a week. I have since found another job at a local movie theater, Cinemark. This job is fine, it just has low pay, and I am one of the oldest people working as an usher. It’s kind of sad really.

Now we are starting to think about where we will be off to next. Teresa has been applying to jobs all over the country, and has had several interviews. So far we have three prospects: Georgia, Rhode Island, and Washington state. Once we know where we are heading I will start bombarding the locals with resumes, and we will make plans for the move. All of that is exciting.  I know that I will be happy to get out of Texas. It isn’t a bad place, just not my place.

I hope to be updating here more, I just need to give myself more time to do it, and that is one of my plans, better time management. So, check back here a little more often for more updates on us.

This is one of the giant pizzas from Gumby’s. They are still in one of the top spots for best pizza around. We only have a few other pizza places to try.

At the movie theaters here you can not only get a trash bag size bag of popcorn and a wheelbarrow full of soda, but you can also get a cold pickle in a bag! I am not trying one, though maybe I can get Teresa to…

This is a little bar somewhat near us. It is the type of places with no windows, and some interesting locals. It is also the kind of place that draws the greek people around. Not sure why that is yet. Anyways, we have gone a couple times, and besides being an play bar, it has very cheap drinks, especially during happy hour. The Aggie Martini is just a beer with an olive in it. We don’t know what the Flaming Dr. Pepper is, but I think we can make a good guess.

Teresa was brave enough to try the wings during happy hour at the Ptarmigan Club. She is still alive, so I guess they were okay.

They put Texas on everything out here, even on the porta-potties. It’s crazy.

So, first off, Teresa and I have been here over a month already. It was actually one month on August 15, but like I said, I have been lax in posting. We went out for dinner at the same place we did our first night here, Café Capri. Again the food was good, even if we had to wait quite a while for a table. Café Capri seems like quite the hotspot in downtown Bryan.

Next we have Teresa at our new favorite restaurant in town, Blue Baker. Actually I kid, Blue Baker is good, but not our favorite place in town. This photo is from our first time there together. We were going for breakfast, but it seems that breakfast ends at 10:30 a.m. Even on the weekends. In a college town. Just seems weird to end breakfast that early. We both wanted bagels, but they turn the bagel toaster off at 10:30 also, and apparently it is a big pain in the buttocks to turn it on again, so we had un-toasted bagels. Not the end of the world, but not the best breakfast either.

On the suggestion of Teresa’s sister Maria, we were in search of Full Sail Brewing beers, specifically their Sessions brew. Teresa is not a huge fan of the beer, and it seems that her sister thought that she would dig the Sessions kind. In order to help us find the Sessions beer, I used good ol’ Twitter. I got a reply from the brewery that yes, I would be able to, I just needed to check H-E-B grocery stores. Thank goodness I got a reply, because their website was not much help at all. After checking a few of the H-E-B’s, we finally found the beer and picked up a 12 pack of the stuff. I like it, Teresa not so much.

Next is softball. Teresa and I have joined a softball team! We had our first practice last Thursday, we have another one this Thursday, and a game the next Thursday. We purchased teresa a glove a couple weeks ago and have gone to the park to throw a softball back and forth in order to get her used to using a glove. Practice was good, we all tried different positions to see where we best fit. We also all took turns at bat in order to give the people in the field something to do while trying out positions. Teresa did good both in the field, and at bat. I have a quick video of her at bat, though it is very dark and small, that I need to post. I will do that a little later.

The next photo is back at Blue Baker. We wanted to try their non-breakfast food, like we had a choice, it was well past 10:30 a.m.. Blue Baker has the makings to be a good food place, there are just little things that hold it back. They have a confusing ordering process. The kind that if you know how to do it it is fine, but if you are a newcomer to the restaurant it might be confusing and frustrating. They do not have very many items on the menu that do not contain meat. This is not a problem for most people, but for me it is, and this site is about Teresa and me so I can whine a little. Third, the menus are crazy. The menus have “Build Your Own” sections for sandwiches and pizzas, but nowhere on the menus do they have the ingredients that you can use to build your own. Again, something you might not think is a problem, but when you are hungry and you want a sandwich that does not have meat and you are trying to build your own veggie one, you get a little frustrated with the whole thing. Okay, enough of that rant. We ate, we were sated, it was fine. After the Blue Baker we went to see (500) Days of Summer. We both enjoyed the movie, so if you are in the mood for a good romantic comedy, go see it.

Our next picture is of our second laundry experience. We had this experience earlier today. It was good. We got our laundry done close to home, and for cheaper than we had before. We will be going back to PJ’s Laundry.

We also saw the movie District-9 and would recommend it as well. It was a little more than Teresa thought it would be as far as the violence goes, but the story, effects and everything else were pretty good. The guys who sat next to us in the theater didn’t think so though. They mentioned something about “suspension of disbelief” and the theory that the movie was a dramadie. They were morons.

We also went to a nacho party at one of Teresa’s cohort member’s house. It was good, a little swimming by some, some nacho/tortilla making by all, and the downing of the most amazing desserts. Yum.

This next week sees Teresa starting her actual job, no more training sessions! She is excited, but I will leave it to her to talk about that stuff. I, on the other hand, have just a regular old work week ahead of me, nothing special. Oh, we have new neighbors! The people in the apartment upstairs have moved in. It took a while, but they finally did it. When we moved in we were told that the lady upstairs would be moving in on August 1, or the 15th, they weren’t really sure. The first came, and left and no tenant. Then came the 15th, and again no tenant. We were confused, until we bumped into the guy who had ben doing some work upstairs and he said that they were moving in on the 20th. It was nice having the whole building to ourselves, and the footsteps upstairs still sound a little weird, but we are getting used to it. We are very glad that they are not kids, and not loud… I should knock on wood or something.

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Teresa and I have been going through the whole Freaks and Geeks series on Netflix. I can’t believe I have not watched this show until now. The complete series is a total of 6 discs, and today our last one came in the mail, so I know what we will be doing tonight. Finishing up the series. Last night we started another series by watching Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark. I think it is crazy that Teresa has not seen any of the Indiana Jones movies. I wanted them to be played back to back, night after night, but I think that the Freaks will rule tonight. I should add that we will be watching all four Indiana Jones movies. Teresa will have to make up her own mind on number four.

So in honor of our last Freaks and Geeks disc tonight, I am asking you all a question that you can really only answer if you have seen the series.

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We saw The DeLorean on our way back from the Nantahala river yesterday. It wouldn’t go above 88 mph. And Marty has not aged well.

I’ve been putting together a map of things to do, places to eat and other things of interest in and around College Station/Bryan, Texas. Seems like there is way more to do than I originally thought that there might be.