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Friday, July 1, 2005
On the job on the Fourth
Not tomorrow, not the next day, but the day after that … Willie’s Picnic. It’ll be the ninth that I’ve attended, but it will also be the third one that I’ve covered for a newspaper.
(Actually, the fourth, if you’re generous enough to count the not-quite-daily Luckenbach Moon as a newspaper).
It’s the first time I’ve been “on the job” on the Fourth since 1996 — and I’m a little bit nervous about it. Back then, the San Angelo Standard-Times issued me a Radio Shack TRS-80 (the sports writers called them Trash-80s) and it was pretty much incomprehensible, though I was still young enough to manage to conquer the technology and file a story.
The Mac laptop issued to me this time, after almost a decade of technological advances, is very spiffy and slightly imposing.
Hopefully, Willie and God willing, I’ll survive the heat, crowds and technophobia to file a story by the end of the Fourth, which will be posted to Austin360.com by Tuesday morning and will run, in a condensed version, in the Statesman on Wednesday.
Oh yeah, and look for my next blog on Tuesday afternoon.
Have a happy Fourth of July.
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