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| Hot hot hotAt the start of June my office in north Houston relocated to downtown and I started riding the bus to work again. I have great timing... it's flippin' hot outside. When I was about to leave yesterday to get the bus I saw this... 
At least it was cooler than it was in my car after it baked in the sun while I watched the Astros blow a lead 9th inning lead with Taps, my father-in-law, and Chip. 
Welcome to summer in H-town. | | |
| Texas secede?With all the frustration that people feel toward the federal government as jobs disappear and companies get bailed out it seems that you can't turn on the news without hearing about "tea parties" and now there's talk of Texas seceding. Really? I thought this random fact from a Time magazine article was interesting. Most experts say the notion that Texas can legally secede is mistaken, but the state does have the right to split into five states, offering the prospect of 10 U.S. Senators, math that would send cold shivers down any Democratic back.
So what do you think? Is all the secession talk just political posturing by the governor of Texas? Or would my fellow Texans seriously consider the possibility of splitting the state in 5 or even consider more drastic action like secession? | | |
| March MadnessI have only put in ~5 hours total watching college basketball so far this year and ~2 hours researching NCAA tourney matchups, but that won't keep me from filling out a bracket with teams I know nothing about (and talking smack about it)! If the president can take time to fill out a bracket, surely I can too.  I don't care so much what the computers say, but I am worried my wife and inlaws might not be happy with me not picking UNC to win it all.  I think the Tarheels got hosed by the selection committee as they have quite a tough road to the Final Four...again. But lest you all forget what happened last year, don't take me for granted! 
Booyah. | | |
| Free electronic stuff!If you or anyone you know would provide a loving home for some of my electronic stuff that Tapley is making me get rid of, let me know and it's yours for free (provided I haven't sold it already). Also, if you know of a good cell phone donation charity, please let me know. There are tons of places online that claim to recycle them, give them to womens' shelters, give them to soldiers, etc, but I have no idea which of them actually do what they claim. May all your electronic devices live long and fulfilling lives. | | |
| The ApostleI'm going on Friday to see Chip in his one-man show The Apostle. I've seen it before, but never in a theatre. Appears he has impressed (or paid) someone from the Houston Press. This isn't the archaic, yet stirring, poetry writ in the exotic Jacobean style of the King James version, but there's still plenty of drama packed into Paul's devout epistle concerning sin, belief and "the way." Simmons mines every nugget. In overcoat, baggy jeans and scuffed work boots, with his hair disheveled, he's a hip proselytizer, a corner prophet... His eyes sear as he stammers passionately, finding the right expression for the inexpressible and thumping his forehead as he searches for meaning.
I hate to bust their bubble, that's just how Chip normally looks, minus the overcoat. Love you, Chip. Many props. | | |
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