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On my birthday Steve, Erika and I went out with a group of people, only they didn't know they were celebrating my birthday. They got together on the occasion on someone else's birthday, that of an Austin science fiction fandom figure named Earl. He supposedly turned 50, though my guess was it was by far not his first 50th birthday. :-)) Since we have no lives of our own, Steve and I had to surreptitiously sneak my birthday into someone else's celebration. :-)

Anyway, we went to a restaurant called Hoover's Cooking, which serves home-style cooking. It is a kind of place where vegetables are served only as an excuse to eat a lot of butter. But it was tasty and we got to talk with some interesting people in Austin science fiction fandom.