TexPAX: A gathering of Southern Gentlemen and Fine Ladies and TWO Expatriot Alaskans

Darmak

That's fine, I'll leave it quoted for posterity. And I'm sure we'll all work something out, I'm just saying if anyone needs a ride within an hour or two from me I'll be more than willing to pick them up.

Also, you wouldn't be the first person to poop in my car.

Daric

Tubing owns what are you talking about. I've tubed down the Comal, the Frio and parts of the Rio Grande. It's always awesome.


Always.

ThreeCubed

Daric wrote: »

Tubing owns what are you talking about. I've tubed down the Comal, the Frio and parts of the Rio Grande. It's always awesome.


Always.

How do you go pee when you need to?

Yukira

Margarazzi wrote: »

Daric wrote: »

Tubing owns what are you talking about. I've tubed down the Comal, the Frio and parts of the Rio Grande. It's always awesome.


Always.

How do you go pee when you need to?

Supposedly in the river.

Anyway, we could make this a few days worth of a thing if we plan it in the summer if people want to go tubing as well.


I did a seating assessment of my car and figured out that I can comfortably fit four total, or uncomfortably fit 6.

Daric

Margarazzi wrote: »

Daric wrote: »

Tubing owns what are you talking about. I've tubed down the Comal, the Frio and parts of the Rio Grande. It's always awesome.


Always.

How do you go pee when you need to?

Drop off your tube, pee in the river.

Alternatively, crash your tube into the nearest land and pee in the woods. Then catch back up.

ThreeCubed

Daric wrote: »

Margarazzi wrote: »

Daric wrote: »

Tubing owns what are you talking about. I've tubed down the Comal, the Frio and parts of the Rio Grande. It's always awesome.


Always.

How do you go pee when you need to?

Drop off your tube, pee in the river.

Alternatively, crash your tube into the nearest land and pee in the woods. Then catch back up.

All reasons quoted above are why tubing is no bueno.

But I'd be happy to have hotdogs and veggie burgers waiting at the end for those of your with sea legs. I'm easy.

vermiculture

texas! I live here now. I am in support for hangouts. I work weekends but I am down for driving out after work. But if we wanted to do something on weds and thursdays, oh man i am there.

Daric

Sometimes we would stand up on our tubes and pee into the river from up there.

Septus

I am regularly able to go a couple of hours without peeing. That's how I tube without peeing.

Tubing is awesome. But, not unless it's 90ish degrees or more.

Daric

The Frio river is called that for a reason. I went in the middle of July and it felt like it was around -20 degrees.

vermiculture

also, it sounds like austin has been decided(i've never been there), but just to let everyone know as an option: I do have 12 free passes to the san antonio zoo and I can have small groups meet an animal and I can talk your stupid ears off if you wanted to hear about zoo life. Austin is maybe an hour away from san antonio.
I go there every day, so I won't care if you don't wanna go.

ThreeCubed

vermiculture wrote: »

also, it sounds like austin has been decided(i've never been there), but just to let everyone know as an option: I do have 12 free passes to the san antonio zoo and I can have small groups meet an animal and I can talk your stupid ears off if you wanted to hear about zoo life. Austin is maybe an hour away from san antonio.
I go there every day, so I won't care if you don't wanna go.

LETS DO THIS ON ONE OF THE DAYS

Yukira

It really wouldn't be hard to bounce between the two cities for a day to hit the Zoo.

Darth Waiter

If we're dead set on a road trip to Austin, I vote for a two day affair.

I have my Explorer, gets fairly decent mileage for a 6-cylinder, so I can take up to three passengers comfortably. It needs to be noted that I drive very safely, like someone's paranoid grandmother.

We could get walkie-talkies for the convoy.

Breaker, breaker, got a chickenhead with a rubber ducky, over.

Septus

The only way, is to do a cannonball run to Austin.

Darth Waiter

We'll be loaded up and trucking.

Darmak

Margarazzi wrote: »

vermiculture wrote: »

also, it sounds like austin has been decided(i've never been there), but just to let everyone know as an option: I do have 12 free passes to the san antonio zoo and I can have small groups meet an animal and I can talk your stupid ears off if you wanted to hear about zoo life. Austin is maybe an hour away from san antonio.
I go there every day, so I won't care if you don't wanna go.

LETS DO THIS ON ONE OF THE DAYS

FUCK YES, I LOVE ZOOS AND ANIMALS AND SHIT

rhylith

Darmak wrote: »

Margarazzi wrote: »

vermiculture wrote: »

also, it sounds like austin has been decided(i've never been there), but just to let everyone know as an option: I do have 12 free passes to the san antonio zoo and I can have small groups meet an animal and I can talk your stupid ears off if you wanted to hear about zoo life. Austin is maybe an hour away from san antonio.
I go there every day, so I won't care if you don't wanna go.

LETS DO THIS ON ONE OF THE DAYS

FUCK YES, I LOVE ZOOS AND ANIMALS AND SHIT

This does sound like a fun side trip!

Cogliostro

Margarazzi wrote: »

vermiculture wrote: »

also, it sounds like austin has been decided(i've never been there), but just to let everyone know as an option: I do have 12 free passes to the san antonio zoo and I can have small groups meet an animal and I can talk your stupid ears off if you wanted to hear about zoo life. Austin is maybe an hour away from san antonio.
I go there every day, so I won't care if you don't wanna go.

LETS DO THIS ON ONE OF THE DAYS

AGREED!! I will add this to the "WHAT"

Dead Legend

like i said in yukira's mass pm

i'm down for whatever

i'm in school until may though, and sometime in june i'll be in vegas for the wsop, and july i'll have summer school, but all of this is manageable provided i have a date in mind and can request off for work and plan around school and shit.

tubing would be best done after may, if that was something people are interested in.

alamo drafthouse sounds excellent.

but if ya'll figure out a date i can promise a 70% or better chance of being able to attend. unless ya'll do this in march or april, both of those months are insane.

Yukira

The mass PM went a little more locally, this looks like it'd be more fun.

Dead Legend

right.

but like i said.

i'm terrible at arranging dates and keeping them.

provided a week or two heads up and i can make just about anything. but march i'll be in the netherlands for 9 days, and april i'll be bouncing around college station/ san marcos/ austin

Darmak

Well I sure hope you can make it, DL. You seem like a cool dude.

Cogliostro

Darth Waiter wrote: »

If we're dead set on a road trip to Austin, I vote for a two day affair.

I have my Explorer, gets fairly decent mileage for a 6-cylinder, so I can take up to three passengers comfortably. It needs to be noted that I drive very safely, like someone's paranoid grandmother.

We could get walkie-talkies for the convoy.

Breaker, breaker, got a chickenhead with a rubber ducky, over.

I have a truck that can hold another person - perhaps two if they're skinny.

And the walkie talkie idea is AWESOME. I could probably pick up a couple of FRS radios on the cheap. Google says Austin and San Antonio are only an hour and a half apart.

This is a doable distance for a kick-ass zoo visit!

If anyone wants to give me a call, I'm at work right now and bored... we can maybe discuss some details, get a conference call goin or something... 713.416.3019.

So, Do we want to do this in February? Maybe the end of? That'll give me time to request time off and it'll give me a chance for my next check to get here. I'll have about 200 hours on this next one, so it'll be monies ho!

rhylith

Sometime later would be better for me honestly, but as long as it's not the weekend of Feb 19th I might be able to make it.

Cogliostro

Well, in all likelihood I would be gone in April so March would be okay for me.

Also: blue man group coming to Houston in the beginning of March. If anyone's interested, I'll be going with a few friends.

Cogliostro

Alright to make this simple let's just have everyone post their preferred and available times - that way we can come up with something.

ThreeCubed

Ok, here's a collaborative GoogleDoc. Doesn't require signing in to edit. Folks, start entering your prefs into this doc. It's pretty scant right now, but feel free to add activities or other useful fields:

http://tinyurl.com/TexPAX2011

ThreeCubed

Yukira wrote: »

The mass PM went a little more locally, this looks like it'd be more fun.

Did I miss anything in the PM? I didn't get it.

cogell

Posted my preferences and such. Basically I'm free anytime besides now through april. I live in Denton, so I'll be able to pick up anyone south of there for carpooling. I can seat 4 comfortably (I drive a toy car). Also, if anyone is interested in a DFW meetup, I know the area pretty well.

Darth Waiter

Post'd mah infoes.

Yukira

Margarazzi wrote: »

Yukira wrote: »

The mass PM went a little more locally, this looks like it'd be more fun.

Did I miss anything in the PM? I didn't get it.

Nah, it was just a small San Antonio area planning.

Updated the doc.

Mysst

I gotta head up to Seattle in the middle of march, and i have to head to Hawaii for an extended weekend or so sometime maybe May/June/july, and i plan on going to Pax proper as well, but anything else should be alright

rhylith

I'll fill this out when I get home.

Cogliostro

We can certainly do two TexPAX's if a few can't meet until May or June.

Also, is anyone interested in driving to PAXPrime? I don't know if I am, but a road trip through Colorado would be awesome.

Also: Filled my info in

Cogliostro

Hard freeze and snow on Friday for the Houston area.


Laughing so hard right now!

VoproSTEIN

40% chance of snow in San Antonio on Thursday night, 20% on Sunday morning.

I've never seen snow here :0

Yukira

Wait, Vorpo, you're in SA too?

Mysst

haha, look at you texans excited by snow that will be mostly ice and disappear by noon

Tam

snow? snow!? FUCK SNOW!

not in my boring ass town

how dare the weather threaten to rouse us from our lethargic stupor!

I'm writing to mayor Julian Castro about this, just you see!