Not Necessarily Interesting News

Woohoo! We got tix to the BNL concert on 11-11 here in Austin. It took us 20 minutes to get through with 3 people calling and 5 computers hammering the website. Decent tix too. Center section, row 15, center of row. Last time our tix were way back and the stage was partially obscured by a large oak tree. That won’t be a problem this time.

We got to see them two years ago here too. I believe that was their first sucessful concert in Austin the prvious two tries were rained out. We’re taking our 10 year old son to see them too. He knows all their songs and is looking forward to going.

My son’s birthday is this week. He’s been begging for the longest time for a trampoline. We finally caved and got together with a few family members to get him one for the backyard. We picked up a nice 14′ trampoline with a full net on it. The net was at mom’s insistence. No trampoline was going to be at our house without one.
It took about 30 minutes to setup the trampoline and another hour and a 1/2 to do the cage. We have a prefectly sized spot in the backyard under the shade of a few pecan trees. The trampoline is shaded from sunrise to sunset so, even in the Texas summer heat, you don’t overheat too badly.
After we got it setup we played for a bit on it. Here it is, two days later, and my stomach oblique muscles are sore as hell. You don’t realize how much of a workout it is until you go at it for a while. It’s one form of aerobic excersize I actually enjoy so maybe it’s not such a bad thing to have it back there. Now I’ve got to wait on my muscles to heal before I go again. 🙂