Yes, I did make it down to the Houston area this last weekend.
We ended up at the Dane Cook show, and it was fun. While I’m not a Dane Cook fan per se, it was a good enough reason to go down and it was a lot more fun seeing Monica after (15?) or so years. Her daughter is seventeen and a spitting image of what I imagine my own daughter being in just six short years…
*sigh*
Getting old is hell.
On Sunday, I ended up touring one of the last places that I lived – and nearby – Montrose.
I’ve spent plenty of time touring other parts of the city that I have previously lived, and at this point – my old neighborhood is holding out. It’s slowly getting older…..
If I was going to move back, I’d have to say that I would be living in the Heights. All the Houstonians will hate me for this, but the neighborhood gentrification is a GOOD thing.
It’s making the neighborhoods more desirable – not so much the townhomes themselves, but the surrounding neighborhoods aren’t so…..dangerous looking.
The Rice mills on (Waugh?) and (Studemont?) are gone – replaced by a multiplex of townhomes/apartments. It looks like a pretty happening bar scene is popping up on Washington (now not so dangerous looking).
One of the things I noticed this time was that every where I went, everyone was intent on not making conversation. Up here, everybody (for the most part) is friendly, and you can strike up a conversation really easily. Starting a conversation anywhere I went was like pulling teeth. Even for people whose job is customer service!
On the plus side, I did find another leather jacket – less than 50 feet from where I bought my original one (back in ’91). I sold my last jacket (I think) when I had wrecked my Acura – sold the jacket and some cues for some cash.
Finally found a jacket I liked.
Go Me!
My car does a wonderfully fast 104mph, and my new radar “locator” found a cop before he found me….. Life is Good.
I wonder how many of us are stuck in destructive loop cycles and don’t realize it?
