no picture of a catcus here..................

This week I went to San Antonio and Austin. Of course that has nothing to do with the picture above but I can tell you that I would have liked to have posted a picture of a catcus. I took a picture of very interesting catcus a couple of weeks ago but I can not get it to post any other way than on it's side? I also had a picture of a entryway to a sporting goods store in San Antonio that might have been postworthy. It had a large stuffed Steer with very large horns, standing on a ledge above the door. For various reasons I decided not to post that picture.  The reason I had the Steer picture is because Thursday evening while in San Antonio were driving around looking around in the Northwest part of San Antonio and we went into a nice shopping center and went into the huge sporting goods store and looked around just for something to do. This was a fun experience by the way. I was told that the Northwest part of San Antonio was the nice part of town.  The area was named Stone Oak  and was as said already,  especially nice, but then part of the reason it was nice was because some of the "Spurs" live there I was told? I put a ? after that last sentence because I am not sure who any of the Spur's players are anymore, not to mention that I am not sure why that makes any difference.  Guess being rich is what they meant about why this area was nice. We spent most of Thursday before getting to Stone Oak, drving around Austin. One thing about Texas (for the purpose of this sentence I felt that Texas needed to be bold and underlined) is that there are several versions of it. Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas each seem to be a different version. El Paso is of course a whole different version but they usually don't get billing along with these other places. ...........................................Austin is the best if you ask anyone in Austin by the way.
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All of this driving around was "market research" and we were checking out food locations and different food concepts. In theory I was suppose to have been eating hamburger, fries and sampling the shakes in these locations. I did sample a Sea Salt Shake with carmel and whipped cream on top. I figure when you put whipped cream on top of a shake your sort of ashamed of the shake to start with and are hoping that it will be valued more with the fluffy top.  The Sea Salt Shake with carmel was a little different but nothing to write home about. Putting a little Sea Salt in your mouth (yes the sea salt is just little crystals of sea salt sprinkled on top)  is of course different than the sweet you expect but I am not sure if it is worth it since you stuck with the whipped cream, and the ice cream is not all the rich. The idea of getting paid to do this type of significant market research is an interesting subject. More interesting ,as a overall subject that is blogworthy, and more than sampling Shakes in Texas would be should be an easy thing. For example I have a friend and cousin who spent some of the last few weeks in Wales. That would make for a more interesting blog. On the other hand if you are reading this blog and actually know me then you at least have some clue as to what I did this week. Even so this exicting tale only covers three of the days.  I read an article last week in a magazine about books. It was sitting in KJ's special room and was easy to read since it was on a pile especially close to where I go in and sit for a few minutes each morning. The article said that one could always cheer up or feel good or better by reading something and it sort if indicated that it didn't matter what it was? The implication of this article is that even reading a blog could serve a purpose.  So I use that as justification for writing this today. Perhaps it doesn't matter that it isn't about anything.  Course I am heading out for a run walk right now.