So I was all set to head to a bar tonight with a fellow Houston refugee to watch the University of Houston men’s basketball team play against mighty Duke on national television. All the Coogs needed to do was to beat Georgia Southern yesterday afternoon, and they would be in the game tonight. Easy, right?
Apparently [...]
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Darn Coogs…
Posted in Sports, Texas on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ike’s toll
Posted in Texas on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Gray posts pictures of the storm damage near his house in Houston.
I spent a lot of time in that neighborhood when I lived in Houston, and I remember those trees and houses. Staggering. Just staggering.
Hurricane Ike
Posted in Texas on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I lived in Houston, I worked in the building that is in the upper right of this photograph.
Wow. Worse than Allison, and Allison was bad.
I hope things are better than they seem…
Update: Thomas Gray survived the storm and Rob Booth seems to have thrived during it.
Chick-fil-A > McDonald’s
Posted in Food, Texas on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For the first time since moving to Portland, I ate at McDonald’s, today for lunch. (When I lived in Houston, I would go to the McDonald’s at Westheimer and Commonwealth about once a year for what you could call anthropological purposes.)
The Southern Style Chicken Sandwich is the McDonald’s replica of the chicken sandwich that made [...]
Farewell to io.com
Posted in Life, Texas on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After eight years with it, I closed my io.com account today.
I opened the account shortly after I moved to Houston to take my first professional job, and realized that the college I went to work for did not provide dialup access (how spoiled Ohio State and Texas had made me!). It was the first non-edu [...]
Weighty matters
Posted in Exercise / PTC, Portland, Texas on August 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I lived in Houston, the “fattest city in America”, for five years, and left three pounds lighter than when I arrived.
I have now lived in Portland, one of the “fittest cities in America”, for three years, and have gained 28 pounds.
The biggest difference I have experienced between the two cities is that in Houston there [...]
