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mellicious) wrote2023-12-02 01:09 am
mellicious) wrote2023-12-02 01:09 am
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Recovering Austinite
I am still trying to figure out what font I am using here - this one looks awfully big but on the other hand it sure is easier on my aging eyes. Rob and I were talking earlier about Texas Chainsaw Massacre and he said that they are planning a re-release next year for the 50th anniversary. It had already occurred to me that I was in high school 50 years ago this fall ('73-74 would have been my freshman year in high school) but man, that still makes me feel really old.
I'm pretty sure that my mother said when TCM (or TCSM, depending if you count "chainsaw" as one word or two) became a big hit the next year that she was never ever going to let us go see it - but honestly I had no desire to see it anyway. I've seen bits and pieces of it but not the whole thing, to this day. (But as I've talked about before, I'm married to a serious horror afficionado, and we read the Wikipedia article together earlier tonight. I won't go see most horror movies but I'm okay with talking about them.)
Wikipedia said that the movie was filmed where La Frontera is now (in Round Rock, just north of Austin). Round Rock was a tiny little town when I lived in Austin in the late 70s/first half of the 80s, but now it's all suburbs, as far as I've seen. (The actual house from the movie was moved somewhere else in Central Texas and is a restaurant.)
Speaking of my aging eyes, I have new bifocals which cost a small fortune, but they are mostly quite effective (as they should be!) - I still have trouble with tiny tiny print, though.
I can't make up my mind whether this is an entry about Austin stuff or about aging, so I guess you're gonna get some of both. (When I lived in Austin was long ago now, after all, so it makes me feel my age, I guess!)
I have been following UT football pretty closely, this year - for the first time in some years - and the conference championship game is in, like, 9 hours. I'm pretty sure I will not be getting up that early but it should tape. Next year UT is moving to the SEC and I imagine getting into the conference championship game might be a mite harder. (UT is 10-1 and is ranked like #7 in the country. Improving further is not going to be an easy thing.) (CORRECTION: apparently I had lost count and it was actually 11-1 when I posted this, now 12-1!)
I'm thinking I like this font, so I'll probably stick with it. It looks bigger on the composition screen than it does on the display, for me. (This is what Dreamwidth calls "medium".)
I'm pretty sure that my mother said when TCM (or TCSM, depending if you count "chainsaw" as one word or two) became a big hit the next year that she was never ever going to let us go see it - but honestly I had no desire to see it anyway. I've seen bits and pieces of it but not the whole thing, to this day. (But as I've talked about before, I'm married to a serious horror afficionado, and we read the Wikipedia article together earlier tonight. I won't go see most horror movies but I'm okay with talking about them.)
Wikipedia said that the movie was filmed where La Frontera is now (in Round Rock, just north of Austin). Round Rock was a tiny little town when I lived in Austin in the late 70s/first half of the 80s, but now it's all suburbs, as far as I've seen. (The actual house from the movie was moved somewhere else in Central Texas and is a restaurant.)
Speaking of my aging eyes, I have new bifocals which cost a small fortune, but they are mostly quite effective (as they should be!) - I still have trouble with tiny tiny print, though.
I can't make up my mind whether this is an entry about Austin stuff or about aging, so I guess you're gonna get some of both. (When I lived in Austin was long ago now, after all, so it makes me feel my age, I guess!)
I have been following UT football pretty closely, this year - for the first time in some years - and the conference championship game is in, like, 9 hours. I'm pretty sure I will not be getting up that early but it should tape. Next year UT is moving to the SEC and I imagine getting into the conference championship game might be a mite harder. (UT is 10-1 and is ranked like #7 in the country. Improving further is not going to be an easy thing.) (CORRECTION: apparently I had lost count and it was actually 11-1 when I posted this, now 12-1!)
I'm thinking I like this font, so I'll probably stick with it. It looks bigger on the composition screen than it does on the display, for me. (This is what Dreamwidth calls "medium".)