Someone sucks

San Antonio or Google... one of you two suck.

Again, I had a nice frustrating evening trying to get somewhere in this honorably laid out city.

I wanted a steak for dinner, I have been wanting a steak all week. The good steak places I have been told about were too far away (strike for SA) so I tried looking up some steak places closer. Google maps has been less than reliable for me in SA and again it fails me (strike for Google).

So I decided to just drive and see what I could find. Well every time I have ever tried this method, I end up finding the same 6 or so crappy chain restaurants (strike for SA). On top of that the retarded layout of the roads, mean you are going to miss the turn to the place so you have to go around (strike for SA). Even the parking lots are crappy designs (strike for SA).

After I was done with what I was doing this evening I wanted to find some ice cream. Well just repeat the same frustrating ordeal from above all over.

Now I know that Google changed stuff with there map data about a month and a half ago, and may people are not happy, but I was having bad results from the day I got to this town. I truly hope that Google has not messed the Vancouver/Portland area up as bad as SA is. I have to think that it is just the crappy layout of SA that causes Google to have a hard time providing good results.

If I had hair, I would pull it out.

Getting on the plane to fly back to SA in December is going to be hard.

Random thoughts and observations

So I just went to the grocery store. Now unfortunately this was a newly opened grocery store. Why do people flock to the same thing with a new label? It is just the same thing that was across the street last week, just a new building. Nothing more, well except for the 1,000's of extra people that would not normal be there.

While in the store I was looking for oatmeal. I went to the breakfast isle thinking that is where it is in host stores. I did not find my oatmeal, but what I did find is an amazing example of targeted advertising towards kids. Cereal on one side of the isle and candy on the other. Not just a little bit of candy, but the full isle! What ever marketing exec thought this up, I hope you have a lot of money to donate to diabetes research when your own kids get juvenal diabetes.

Another thing, with the buzz word of everything being "Green" why is it that packaging on food keep getting more and more excessive. As I walked through the store, I was seeing things that the packaging has been "improved" on and thought, OK that never use to be that big. The best part, I can almost guarantee you that the amount of the product that you are getting has decreased at the same time. If the "Green" idea was more than just marketing....

Also, to who ever thought the pace of life in TX was going to be too slow for me, well sorry to say that I am about the slowest moving person in this city. The state motto of "Don't mess with Texas" need to get changed to "Get the F@#$ out of my way". It would be much more fitting as there is garbage all over the place. Everyone is in a hurry around here. And the worst part, is because I am not in a hurry, everyone just runs me over and pushed me out of the way. Ever seen the movie Falling Down? I have no plans to ever go that far, but that is how I feel some times.

The return of the dumb drivers

So if you have been reading any of this thing, or have talked to me on the phone, you know that I don't have the highest opinion of the drivers here in SA.

What I want to know is anyone else seeing more people driving dumber now that the price of fuel is going down?

By dumber, I mean:
driving faster
racing from stop light to stop light
weaving in and out of traffic
etc.

Dumb drivers will never fully go away, but $4.50/Gal. sure did help.

Drivers are getting to me

This is becoming a problem again for me. I find my self yelling at other drivers as I drive around SA. I have not been this mad at people when driving in a long time.

An adventure to dinner

So today I had nothing at all to do. Well I am sure I had something to do I just did not do anything. I had seen something at work about this Mediterranean festival in Austin. I had not been to Austin yet and Mediterranean food sounded good so I went.

Took 2 hours to drive there with Friday night traffic.

Now people had told me that Austin was about the closest thing I would find to Portland, in TX. And it did have a little bit of the Portland look and feel, but not any feel of history, it seemed too new.

But anyway back to dinner. So it was $5 to get in to the area. I got there at the beginning and there were not a ton of people yet. I wandered around and saw the few booths of trinkets for sale. I then went and bought some food. What a disappointment. The food was just a bunch of generic stuff. The pita that I got, not even a full pita just half, was hard. It would not even bend without cracking. The hummus tasted like it came out of a can. The kabob was OK, but nothing to write about.

I then went and sat near the stage where the band was still setting up. They would play half of a song and then have to stop be cause of some issue. I listened for a bit, but got tired and left.

5 hours, half a tank of gas, and mediocre food. Has to be the most expensive meal yet in TX.