Life is a Bumpy Road

Austin, Texas. Travel in Texas. Life in General. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - - -Dylan Thomas

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I am an esteemed alumni of Austin College in Sherman Texas (Class of "none of your business"). I graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts as a History Major. Subsequently, I have worked in the human services field since graduation because there aren't too many jobs out there for history majors. Except for my short incarceration in Sherman, I have always lived in Austin, Texas. That's not totally true, I was born in England and lived there approximately 18 months, but for some strange reason I don't remember living there. I travel through out Texas for my job, every week. So beware Texans, I might be coming to a town near you!! I am happily married to a wonderful guy and have 0 (zero, zilch) children. (We just forgot to have them?) I find life amusing now (I used to find it extremely depressing but that's another story). So here's to Life, which after all can be a very bumpy road!

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." -Albert Einstein

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Academy to open its biggest store yet


Academy Sports & Outdoors is moving into the former Home Depot at 5400 Brodie Lane in Sunset Valley. The store will be 102,000-square-feet which is much larger than the average Academy at 74,000 square feet. Apparently Academy was feeling some competition from Cabella down in Kyle and the huge discount stores like Walmart and Target. The Academy people though felt like the move was worth it because Austin is such and outdoorsy, sporting kind of town. So there you have it. Another big box store made good. Whew! And we were worried they might turn that corner into a green belt or something!!

Now my next question is, whatever happened to REI moving into the old Whole Foods building on Lamar? I thought they were supposed to open a store there when Whole Foods moved to it's new building across the street, but I have seen no signs of anything happening with that building. It kind of leaves BookPeople hanging out there all alone. That's really too bad.

posted by AustiNative | 5:47 AM

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