husband: father: product marketing: passions are ♻️sustainability, design, tech, health+wellness, trends, learning, sports, music + Austin. Thoughts are my own.
@brianhartline Congratulations @brianhartline what a tremendous effort by the coaching staff and players!!! Keep it up rolling into the Cotton Bowl! I’ll be there in person to support BUCKEYE NATION!!! O-H!!!
The Texas Quote of the Day:
"It's been a pretty good song. It was written in five minutes about a hot day in Austin, Texas with a margarita and a beautiful woman. I finished it in Key West. I had no idea."
----- Jimmy Buffett, who passed away yesterday, talks about how he wrote the most valuable song in history, "Margaritaville," one afternoon in 1976 after visiting a Mexican restaurant on Anderson Lane in Austin, Texas and then retreating to a friend's house in Northwest Hills. Buffett was touring at the time. When he landed back in Key West, he polished off the lead single to his 1977 album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, an unexpected hit for the largely unknown singer that peaked at No. 8 on Billboard charts and notched the 14th most popular song of the year.
I love this story. Not only is there a Texas connection but also there's the idea that, like so many other songwriters before him, Jimmy was struck by creative lightning and, unknowingly, released the song just at the moment the zeitgeist was ready for it. Other than the brief moments of inspiration, it was largely luck, a matter of so many things aligning in the cosmos. But it grew to the point that Jimmy's Margaritaville Holdings was employing 5,000 people.
Shown here: Jimmy Buffett with Willie Nelson in 1975.
@PGA Spend the most amount of practice time on pitching, chipping and putting. This is where you will lower your score. If you are a average bogey golfer this means you are not hitting a lot of greens in regulation. So, the touch around and on the greens are keys to success!
@united@united you really showed how not to care about your customers today, Sun 7/6/23. You left my family and I stranded in Houston at the Sheraton IAH w/out our luggage & now missing 1.5 days of our Nassau Bahamas vacation. Shame on you guys, you can and need to do better! 😡