badass burfdee weekend

Music: Grafton Primary: Eon (2008)

It is always just a smidge depressing when turning a year older. My special day of arrival on the planet has always fallen on spring break, and so, I have frequently done little to nothing. Thanks to the recession, however, a lot of folks have not left town and so I got to party a bit. Yay! This Saturday I celebrated my tenth 27th year old anniversary with plenty of food and friends and . . . chicken shit!

The birthday celebration started with dinner and drinks at one of my favorite restaurants. It was nice to see so many folks out and enjoying margaritas. I scored a special armadillo, who was frequently getting into mischief. I also scored a number of cucumber margaritae (which were strangely not as strong as they normally are, so, you know, we had to drink more). Then we capped the night with a cigar at NOMAD.

On Sunday the party didn’t stop. Christopher and I checked out the views at Mt. Bonell, and then he showed me a secret hiking and climbing spot I didn’t know about. The traffic for SXSW was a bit insane, but getting to the trails we spied a kite festival in Zilker park (I’ve never seen so many kites in the sky at once).

After a very short hike, we trucked it over to Ginny’s Longhorn Saloon to catch Dale Watson and play some Chicken Shit Bingo. Basically, for two bucks you get a ticket with a number. If the chicken shits on your number, you get like $100. I had no idea this was such a big deal; people were camped out all around this tiny bar—the music was blasting, and big biker dudes were out back showing off their Harleys. It was a lot of fun.

A few of us topped off the weekend with some Thai food at Satay. Christopher and I finished off the evening watching the original Clash of the Titans (so bad) and Demon Seed (even worse). It was a lovely weekend. Thanks so much to folks who came out to celebrate with me and buy me margaritae—y’all rock! (A gallery of the weekend is here).

Alas, I’m back to work today. On tap: “speaking to inform.” Meh.