Weekend ketchup

• Dan Renzi leaves Austin and starts out on a road trip to start a new life in Miami with all of his posessions in his car and no certain plans of where he is staying, just knowledge that he is starting a new life.  This is so very bad-ass, this freedom and confidence.
• Shopping is so difficult unless one really loves seeing the same products displayed over and over.  Chain stores are rot on the soul of someone that loves to shop; the patrons of chain stores are thus soulless monsters.  Finding out that this opinion is not unique is heartening.
• Turns out that most Americans do not trust me. 
• Off to the accountant and tax-time sadness ...