Tikkabik

So we landed safe and sound in Austin, Texas late on Monday morning and basically hit the ground running. We started meeting with clients as soon as we got here -- Paul B. and Paul Z. don't mess around, we're here for business. Then we hooked up with my friends Ryan and Jenn for dinner.

The two Pauls and I love barbecue -- the Texas barbecue is nothing like what we get back in Boston unless you *really* know where to look, and you can get good barbecue here at gas stations. (Literally. We at Rudy's for lunch, which is phenomenal.) But going to Rudy's for lunch and the Salt Lick for dinner may have been a strategic error, in retrospect. All three of us were practically incoherent by the time we got back to the hotel (and it certainly wasn't the one beer I washed all that meat down with).

I slept like the dead. Didn't get out of bed once the entire night. A belly full of meat and a comfortable bed does that to a guy.

I'm already missing Bonnie and the kids, of course. But today's a big day -- get to see Aspyr Media and check out Guitar Hero III for the first time, which I'm really looking forward to. Tomorrow, Houston.