Camina

First Neil Young song I have ever heard covered in a different language. Crazy Notes and "Camina", Neil's "Walk On" from On The Beach.

Beauty And The Beast

Here are some photos taken at a performance of Beauty And The Beast we attended Friday night the 18th, at Zilker Hillside Theater, with some of Samantha's classmates. We saw the show with my brother Dave, Joan, Sydney, and Ben earlier in the summer, but it was enjoyable again. As you can see, Gaston is a sight. Performed outdoors at night, not too hot, a little breezy - good times. Oh, and cold root beers and orange crushes. Girls had fun.

Safe driving?

It isn't in Austin, and it doesn't look good for the rest of Texas either. New York Times has a story on the safest places to drive. There is a separate paragraph with some major Texas cities mentioned.

Drivers in the Texas cities of Houston, San Antonio and Dallas are 24 percent to 28 percent more likely to have accidents compared to national averages.

More info from an AllState link in that story. Austin not mentioned anywhere, but the local radio reports Austin does not have a good record.

And Evan and Tory wonder why I charge them for insurance. Amusing chart in the AllState page shows driving stats for Generation Y, and even for the safest cities, the numbers of years between accidents are remarkably low, meaning greater accidents for the younger drivers.