An entirely satisfactory weekend. Oh, hello June.

It seems most people I know had a pretty good Memorial Day weekend, myself included.

Much of it was spent trying to avoid the heat of the sun, because let's face it, it's getting bloomin' hot here in Austin. While the Koens and Knotts went off to Rockport, I decided to spend the weekend here around town, learning how to cook different things with the same four ingredients, and hanging out with friends. Incidentally, those four ingredients are salmon filets, chicken breasts, onions, and mushrooms. Tomatoes and rice are added in, depending on what it is I come up with. They also involve either the toaster oven or the charcoal grill. So far, I've done a basic grilled salmon, basic grilled chicken, salmon on rice, salmon with stir-fried vegetables, chicken tacos (which rock), and combinations hitherto. Seriously, it's hard to make something that tastes BAD with just salmon, chicken, or tuna. It may not taste great, but certainly not bad.

Saturday, we had a small dinner at Steven and Courtney's of BBQ chicken (yum), pasta salad (YUM), and root beer floats (yum). Being nice out, there was much chatting and playing with the dog on the back porch into the early evening. This is what life's about. Good food, good friends, and all that those involve.

Sunday, I started off by going to the weekly flickr meetup at Progress Coffee, where I had a lemonade. This was followed up by a quick trip down to the HOPE Farmers Market, which was a bit empty due to the long weekend. I didn't get anything, but the produce they had there looked pretty good. Bunch of hippies - but of the East Austin variety, so they were 'funky' (in all senses of the word) and tattooed, but hippy in the heart. I walked around East Austin a bit more, taking pictures as I went, because I had an hour to burn before heading up to Hubert and Melissa's for another Memorial Day weekend BBQ.

Monday was even more relaxed. I cleaned up the house a bit, did dishes, ate a strawberry from the garden. I was going to swing by Zilker Park, but they're charging for parking on weekends, so I went down to Butler Park instead to watch the end of the CapTex Triathlon.

I've finally regimented my gym visits (to a solid three days a week), in the hopes that the structure will help. We'll see how that goes. I've been weighing in at about 198 the last few times, so maybe that's encouraging. Until next time.