February 15, 2026 Eagles Nest Elite

Eagles Nest
1235 Basse Rd
San Antonio, TX 78212

Store phone: 210-354-7343

11 AM – 4 PM

February 15, 2026 Eagles Nest Elite

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Rerun Socrates: Heart’s Desire

Desires

Rerun Socrates: Heart’s Desire

Original: Heart’s Desire

Reuse, repair, recycle

Reuse, repair, recycle

Original post here, 5.20.2021, the sign story.

This Sunday: Eagles Nest Elite

Eagles Nest
1235 Basse Rd
San Antonio, TX 78212
Store phone: 210-354-7343
11 AM – 4 PM

This Sunday: Eagles Nest Elite

Also: Romance Advice

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Chuy’s in myth and location

Chuy’s in myth and location and Capricorn. Always a Capricorn in the mix.

The original Dallas location for a Chuy’s was in the then-vaunted West End. Outside, but protected by wire-mesh, as I recall, there were some of the original Daddy-O Wade’s “Dancing Frogs” from the top of Tango, another questionable establishment that I am only tangentially tied to.

“Girls, girls, girls.”

Over time, those frogs migrated to Willie’s Bio Diesel truck stop, just south of town. All disappeared, lost in myth and mystery, the shady gray of the past.

Late lunch, one afternoon, away from family business, listened to a Capricorn, compared injuries, and talked strategies.

Wandering in, if only for a minute, I took a turn around the inside of the new location, looking for old, familiar artwork.

Legend, the original Chuy’s on Barton Springs in Austin? Right before opening, lacking any kind of “decorating budget,” they scoured a few student move-out heaps, and thus the tacky yet unrefined ambiance was born. Used to be a Black Velvet Elvis where a microphone was replaced with a jalapeño pepper.

Chuy’s in myth and location

But it goes much deeper, a real B-side cut.

Can’t find it now, but Sherie was the original red-headed Capricorn. I met her early in my career, as she was the promoter plus lead psychic in El Paso.

She was a grande dame.

Stately and overly elegant in her appearance, she always sported a large mane of red hair, while she was stuffed into a tight sheath of a dress, bulging in an alluring fashion in all the correct spots. With spike heels, close to six feet in regal height.

Massively Capricorn, too. Hugely.

She was coy, demure, classy, and yet, under the right conditions, she would swear like a trucker and talk about chasing young boys. I was too mature for her tastes, even then, and this recollection is over thirty years old.

The one show we worked together in Dallas was pretty much a bust, and she was out airfare as Sherie was from Old El Paso — before border wars and cartels. She would talk about crossing into Mexico for gambling, legal drugs, cheap cigarettes, and an afternoon at the bar. There was a time when El Paso residents would wander back and forth across the border with relative impunity. Grocery shopping was cheaper.

“Si hablo ingles!”
as the signs suggested.

The very specific recollection, though, pointedly so, was at that Chuy’s in the West End of Dallas, with a table full of grumpy psychics, most of us were from Austin, and Sherie from El Paso, collected around a large table in that restaurant.

My date, Scorpio, and Sherie, Capricorn, were getting their drink on. Supposedly, tequila washes away a bad day. Sherie was sitting next to me, on one side, I think, flirting somewhat, or joking, not sure, and the memory is too distant to be accurate, but in a moment, she had to be at least two margaritas deep, there was comment, and she looked at me, lifted her scalp, “I tip my hat to that!”

I almost feel out of my chair, the trademark hair?

It was a wig.

Chuy’s in myth and location

Previous notes about the original Chuy’s and Hatch Peppers

Chuy’s and the Hula Hut in Austin.

More Tango frogs.

February 10, 2026 in Austin at the rock shop

Rock Shop

11055 N IH-35
Austin, TX 78753

Hours: 11 AM – 4 PM.

February 10, 2026 in Austin at the rock shop

I’ve used an abbreviated, modified version of a bullet journals for several years. It’s helped immensely. In part, it’s a single page, day diary, but I tend to eschew verbiage and use quick sketches, notations, and doodles. I make sure, in one of several locations, that I mark a single day/date and I ensure that I get something down. Been at this a while, and here’s what seems to be working.

Typical Goal Setting

Shakespeare’s Hermione:

“But once before I spoke to th’ purpose? When?”

in The Winter’s Tale (I.ii.100)

Typical Goal Setting

At front of each notebook? Four, easy questions with blank bullet points.

1. Day
2. Weeks
3. Months
4. Years

So the way it works? During one day, the goal, everyday the goal is a simple 1,000 words, written. Can be weblog, horoscopes, manuscript, or whatever else I’m working on, but the four, typed manuscript-style pages, or roughly 1,000 words? That’s a daily goal. If I have to work at either shop, or I’m traveling, family business, or other interruptions? Doesn’t matter. That means, it doesn’t matter, either way. Either I hit that goal, roughly half of a weekly horoscope, or I don’t, and if I don’t, there’s no shame.

Not like I’m being graded on this.

Looking ahead, right now, I’m trying to get all of the March horoscopes spooled up before Mercury is officially retrograde — just get them finished. Quote, planets, actions, reactions. Just get it out and I’ll worry about proofreading, copyediting later.

That’s the daily goal. That daily goal rolls into weeks, possibly the three-month version, seasonal, at its best?

Typical Goal Setting

The goal-setting process yields results for me because the goals are amorphous enough that I can easily hit them. There are kind of specific, but this is a rhythm I worked out over years, and serves me well. Understand, too, that the primary goal, four (4) typed manuscript pages, roughly a 1,000 words, is merely a target. Some days, conditions and current events being what they are? I’m lucky if I can finish a single sign’s horoscope.

The struggle is real.

As the old aphorism goes?

“The only easy day was yesterday.”

True. But there is the drive that pushes me forward, an insistent inner urge to chisel out meaning from the thin digital air.

“A lot of work goes into making this look easy.”

Always my favorite closer.

Typical Goal Setting

The original Five (5) Year plan was to sunset astrofish.net in 2028. Not really retire, but stick to the parts of this that I enjoy the most, writing the horoscopes and trying wrestle meaning to the page.

Changing that to a Four (4) Year plan is a little different, as I managed to squeeze all the material into one place and into a singular form. That much I like. But to actually sunset the domain name itself? I’m less sure.

The URL will be thirty (30) years old in 2028. I’m unsure of what direction I will take, then. It’s that question mark at the end of the goals.

Wait and see, but rest assured, I’m not going anywhere that I can’t be found.

Typical Goal Setting

More than one client has expressed shock, regret, and outright denial at the notion that I might retire.

Fear not!

I’m not retiring, just adjusting my pace to make it better for me.

Typical Goal Setting

• Bullet Journals
• Bullet Journal 1
• Bullet Journal 2
• Re-aligning Goals
• Realigning Goals 2

Cloud Note

Current cloud computing investing.

The real story? Myth busted(ten years back).

Cloud Note