January
2024 started slowly. I was still recovering from brain surgery and playing lots of Fallout 4. I also had time to cook a mushroom risotto.
February
March
April
Thought it was a struggle to see the total solar eclipse through the clouds, I was still able to experience the fantastic and unnerving feeling of watching the daytime being plunged into darkness.
Clear Launch had a team building exercise at Color Cartel, in which we all contributed to a graffiti mural, which now hangs in our office. Erin and I went back a few days later for a hip-hop show featuring local artists.
May
Erin and I went to a political fundraiser thrown by my “first” best friend, Jay Mendlovitz, whom I met in the 2nd Grade, while attending Ridgeview Elementary in San Antonio, Texas. I hadn’t seen Jay in decades and we had a wonderful time catching-up and reminiscing.
June
In early June, Erin and I attended her niece Lindsay’s wedding in Lubbock, Texas. Thanks to an extremely luxuriant flower arrangement mounted to a backing board, we were able to capture a beautiful Midsommar homage.
From Lubbock, we continued up to Durango to get Finley for our Summer visit. On the way back home, we stopped in Santa Fe, NM to go to Meow Wolf.
July
We had our Summer weekend with Denise in San Antonio, where we enjoyed her neighborhood pool.
David came down for my traditional birthday weekend of dinner at Truluck’s on Saturday and dancing at Elysium on Sunday night.
August
September
October
Erin took me to see Foster the People at Emo’s. I only knew a couple of their songs, but I came away really loving their music and wanting to explore more of it.
Set List
- Feed Me
- Helena Beat
- Lost in Space
- See You in the Afterlife
- Call It What You Want
- Coming of Age
- Pseudologia Fantastica
- Houdini
- Chasing Low Vibrations
- Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)
- Lotus Eater
- Time to Get Closer
- Lamb’s Wool
- Take Me Back
- Miss You
- Sit Next to Me
- Glitchzig
- Pumped Up Kicks
We had planned on spending Halloween in New Orleans, but Duran Duran announced another special Halloween concert at Madison Square Garden, so we changed our plans and flew to NYC. You can read more about it soon.
November
Erin and I met Janea, her husband John, and daughter Kate to see the final performance of The Eggmen, who had decided to retire after playing for more than 30 years. We caught them at El Mercado South, which closed in 2025 after 40 years. Luckily, my beloved El Mercado on Burnet Road is still going.
December
