Leap years are cool I think. I can't say I fully understand how they work other than they are every four years. I understand the it takes 365 days for the earth to go around the sun and i'm assuming it takes a fourth of a day extra so after 4 years we add a day. This 6th grade science (who am I kidding, 3rd grade science) isn't too complicated, but the point is I just trust that it all adds up even though I've never checked it out for myself. An extra day is always welcomed. My niece Sarah had her birthday on February 28th, which I noticed when I did the math that she was born on a leap year. So I asked my sister Ana about it and she told me that she chose to make sure Sarah wouldn't be born on the 29th because she didn't want her to feel like her birthday couldn't be fully celebrated each year. I think it was a good call.
There was an Obama Rally on Wednesday at Texas State. I wanted to go, but I knew it would be packed and I was really tired after my run, so I ended up falling asleep that night at like 9pm. It sucks when you wake up at 3am and think it is the morning and then have to keep waking up every few hours waiting for 7am. Of course I wake up late, ironic when I got so much sleep.
Thursday for lunch my boss took our clients, me and Susan to the Salt Lick. I had never been there before. It is a BBQ place and I have to admit it was really good. I found it curious that they only accepted cash, yet they were a long established place. I think they have some of the best BBQ in Austin. These were some great clients.
Thursday night I had plans to go out with Oscar and Abram. I was hoping for a low key happy hour and hopefully Oscar and Abram would get a chance to hang out since Oscar works most of the day and we all really don't see each other even though we live in the same house. Well Abram was fortunate enough to get invited to a Spurs Mavs basketball game, and of course he had to take that offer. That left Oscar and I, and he was still up to going out so I was game. The thing is that I don't work well with the Austin schedule. Let me explain, in DC I could go to work and at 5:30 go out to happy hour, be home by 8pm (10pm latest if the night was really good) and then you go to bed and wake up early for work in the morning. Weekends were normal, you go out about 10 or 11 and stay out until they stop selling beer. In Austin, there are probably happy hour places, but the places we go to are Thursday night places that are geared for people who don't have work on Friday and can stay out late. So we get to the bar and it is empty at 9pm. We actually only pay 3 bucks to get in, even though it will be like 10 dollars later in the night. We have some drinks and catch up on how things have been going. Oscar then went out and did his dancing thing, while I had a few drinks and had a good time texting. I called it a night early because I had work in the morning, but Oscar stayed because he was having a good time.
So I'm in bed not yet fully asleep and it is about 3am. I'm having trouble falling asleep because I decided to watch Lost when I got home, but I'm almost there. Then the phone rings and it is Abram. All I hear is New Braunfels, and I tell him, man its late, I'm asleep, of course I can't go hang out in New Braunfels. Then he tells me, no no, we got pulled over by a cop. That woke me up. So, on the way back from the game, a person he did not know was taking him home when she got pulled over by a cop. They took her in and left Abram stranded at a gas station. I drove down there and picked him up and he filled up my tank of gas. You would think I would be frustrated because of the inconvenience, but the fact that he was ok and that he wasn't in any trouble was more important. It sucks to bail a person out of jail, now that sucks. Now I am paying for it today though, but I'm going to sleep really well tonight.
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