Austin

Gotta love this town. The sun is shining. And since I was last here the Lime Scooters have taken over. They are everywhere. Some might think of them as a blight but they make exploration possible in a short space of time. They widen my range. I have already spent way too much on them, one short trip after another. But my quality of life is much improved.

It’s Chinese New Year so I went and got dim sum at Lin Asian Bar. I sat outside. It was glorious. Now I’m having a decent flat white in Medici Coffee just near the campus. This is gonna be a great week.

There have been some changes to the place since 2019. The Lime bikes are part of it, but there’s also a rash of those fucking dumb Waymo things driving themselves round in circles trying to steal people’s jobs for novelty. You’d have to set me on fire before I gave any money to whichever billionaire it is this time trying to screw over all the drivers. But there they all go, hesitantly turning corners waiting for some dupe to jump in and celebrate another step towards us all being the batteries in The Matrix, while sending a fucking video of themselves to their preferred social media outlet. I’ve seen a couple of those fugly swasticars too. There’s no accounting for taste and as often as not the rich are the ones with none of it. They’ll all be bricks in a decade. Although the people who somehow manage to keep theirs running will probably have some value to counter all they’ve spent. On a car that can be remotely sabotaged.

I’m off to a class.

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So apparently I’m Hispanic. I always forget this about Texas. My mum’s name was De Las Casas. That’s on my IMDb. So I was introduced as a British Hispanic actor. I hate it when they read our bio to the class but it’s my fault. I wrote that stuff for the kind of people that like it. “He’s been on The Crown!” A few days of work in a longass varied career doing wonderful strange stuff. Sure it’s lovely and important to have credits people can hook into. At least I’ve got a couple of hooks. More please.

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And I’m watching the longhorns. Didn’t really want to but it’s where the day went. A bit more pageantry. I’d go anywhere right now just cos I can go there in just a T-shirt. I’ve got one red sock on. Chinese New Year. Horsey time. Let’s find out what we’ve all shed with the snake.