Whipped Cream Difficulties

Amy Bishop took a plea. She’s going away forever. Good.

Speaking of plea deals, one of the suspects in the Austin nightclub case has also pled out to charges of selling and distributing cocaine. He’ll do 46 months in prison, and three years of “supervised release”. The cases against the other suspects are proceeding, but it looks like at least one of them is on the run.

Obit watch: Dr. Thomas Szasz, noted critic of psychiatry.

This is interesting to me on a personal level: there’s a shopping center at the corner of North Lamar and 38th Street that has what is easily one of the Top Ten worst parking lots in Austin. The tenants in that center have been told that they need to move out: apparently, someone plans to demolish that center for new development.

The other thing that makes this interesting to me (besides the loss of the horrible parking lot) is that one of the anchor tenants is Precision Camera, a regular stop for me on Saturday and (as far as I know) the only real camera store in Austin. Even better, they’re moving to a location at Burnet and Anderson, almost within walking distance of my apartment.

[Jerry] Sullivan [owner of Precision] has twice expanded his Precision Camera store, but he said there’s still not enough room. The new location will be larger — about 20,000 square feet compared with the current 13,000 square feet — and will feature more products and services. There will also be more parking for customers, he said.
“The sales floor over there will be two — almost two and a half — times bigger,” he said. “We need the space. Right now, we’re crammed in here sideways.”

Preach it, brother! I’m excited about this move, in case you couldn’t tell.