Monday, June 2, 2014
Breakfast: a banana. Did some selection of sessions. Registered at DrupalCon. Walked around downtown. Brunch at Cedar Door (201 Brazos): lunch special: half grilled cheese, southwest corn chowder, lemonade, about $10 before tip. I liked my food. The grilled cheese had mushrooms and aioli. The chowder was a tad spicy but tolerable for me. (The server said it was not spicy at all, which is not true.) When my server brought my bill it had more expensive prices than the menu reflected (almost twice as muuch) and it took a lot of waiting for her to resolve the problem which turned out to be something wrong with their cash register system. She was apologetic in the end. Back to the hotel. More selection of sessions and handling regular work stuff including content work in Drupal. Late dinner: I walked around a lot again before I got doner kabab at a Kebabalicious food truck at Congress Avenue and E 7th Avenue: chicken kebab wrap with tahini, mexican coke, about $10, tasty. Ever since I arrived in Austin I now and again saw evidence of cockroaches. Usually they were dead on the floor or sidewalk. I knew before long I would have an encounter with a bug. And while eating my doner kebab a small bug jumped on my leg and I shook it off. It was too small and the lighting too dim to tell if it was a roach. Parts of downtown Austin are so dirty I was surprised that I didn't see more roaches so far. Back to the hotel for a shower before bed. I didn't receive GroupMe messages for some reason. I was added and I successfully sent and received messages via SMS. It wasn't until after I created an account on the GroupMe website and downloaded the GroupMe app to my iPhone 3GS that I stopped receiving alerts on my phone.