On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:58:08 -0700, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:48:43 -0400, "Robibnikoff"
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:31:37 -0400, "Robibnikoff"
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Did I mention that along with heat and flat terrain, I also despise
traffic?

I thought NJ=traffic?

Not if you avoid the highways like I do. Back roads, baby! ;)

With the population density I wasn't sure there were any 'back' roads.

You think everyone lives along a highway? Wha?

Not at all. I was thinking almost universal gridlock.

That's a little east of Witchville.

Long Island, with the longest
parking lot in the world. Only 8 lanes wide, but about 70 miles long.

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:56:24 -0400, "Robibnikoff"
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Did I mention that along with heat and flat terrain, I also despise
traffic?

I thought NJ=traffic?

Not if you avoid the highways like I do. Back roads, baby! ;)

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:02:12 -0400, Robibnikoff wrote:

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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:23:50 -0700, tirebiter wrote:

On Mar 18, 8:53 am, "Mark K. Bilbo" <g...@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

Houston is such a perverse city. Somehow it fits I was born there...

Ha ha. I was born in Dallas (too long ago to dwell on). We had a
joke in High School about a couple making out in a car, and as they
were rounding second base the girl said, "Ohh, kiss me down there
where it's hot and damp and smelly", so he drove her to Houston.
Sorry, the lint trap that is my mind collects the most inappropriate
things sometimes.

<SNORK>

I'll have to remember that one...

George is going to be in Arlington, TX for the next month. I'll have
to
email him this joke ;)

He's talking again about getting a possible job offer and us relocating
there. Make him stop!

MUUUUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!

And you thought you were the only one who could cast evil spells huh?

Oh please, like you're anywhere near Colleyville ;(

Colleyville? What's wrong with Richland Hills or Haltom City?
(Obviously,
Dalworthington Gardens is right out. ;-)

Hey, all I know is that the husband was looking at houses online there.

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:02:12 -0400, Robibnikoff wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:23:50 -0700, tirebiter wrote:

On Mar 18, 8:53 am, "Mark K. Bilbo" <g...@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

Houston is such a perverse city. Somehow it fits I was born there...

Ha ha. I was born in Dallas (too long ago to dwell on). We had a
joke in High School about a couple making out in a car, and as they
were rounding second base the girl said, "Ohh, kiss me down there
where it's hot and damp and smelly", so he drove her to Houston.
Sorry, the lint trap that is my mind collects the most inappropriate
things sometimes.

<SNORK>

I'll have to remember that one...

George is going to be in Arlington, TX for the next month. I'll have to
email him this joke ;)

He's talking again about getting a possible job offer and us relocating
there. Make him stop!

MUUUUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!

And you thought you were the only one who could cast evil spells huh?

Oh please, like you're anywhere near Colleyville ;(

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:45:03 -0500, The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> writes:

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:41:53 -0500, The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> writes:

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:53:29 -0500, The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> writes:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:59:34 -0500, The Chief Instigator wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> writes:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:54:51 -0400, Robibnikoff wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:42:57 -0400, Robibnikoff wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message

snip

I've been doing that a lot lately. I seem to have had yet another
rash of gray hairs. Fortunately, I've also developed that far
sightedness problem that comes with age and can't focus all that
well on my image in the mirror if I get close in...

I know what you mean. I have a pair of reading glasses in every
room of the house as well as a pair in my purse and a pair at work.
It's obnoxious, but what are you gonna do?

I'm about to break down and buy more than one pair myself. Nothing
like trying to dial the cell phone at arm's length because the
reading glasses are at the house...

Go ahead and do it - They're only a couple of bucks at CVS or Eckerds
or whatever you have out there.

Who knows what we have here fast as they're changing their names...

(Walk into an Eckerds, walk out of a CVS)

Are CVS and Walgreens acting as crazy up there as they have been in
Houston over the past couple of years? (Case in point: since the
early '70s, there was a Walgreens at Westhill Village on the southwest
corner of Hillcroft and Westheimer. That was relocated across
Westheimer and about a half-mile west in the late 1990s. When CVS
started popping up, they grabbed the southeast corner of the
Hillcroft/Westheimer crossing - nuking Pino's Italian Restaurant, which
had occupied that corner since some time back in the 1960s - in early
2005, and to top it off, Walgreens plopped down another store two
blocks down Hillcroft from their original location at Westhill Village,
less than a half-mile away from the relocated Westheimer store. It's
gotten to where it's getting hard to find a major-street intersection
in southwest Houston and the suburbs that doesn't have Walgreens and
CVS staking out two of the four corners.)

They can't get too crazy here given that the free standing (as in Wal-Mart
has one and HEB has one) pharmacies there is... the Walgreen's.

People keep telling me this particular wide spot in the road is growing
*so *much but this growth appears to be kept well hidden..

The one thing that has surprised me: if there was any enterprise that
I'd pick to stake out more than one corner of any intersection around
here, I'd have expected it to be Starbucks. They're almost as common as
the average mosquito, but I have yet to see a Houston intersection that
actually has more than one of the buggers. (If I want caffeine, I'll
stick with the home team: Dr. Pepper.)

Speaking of which, we have arrived. The Starbucks just opened...

Remind me to stay east of 183 the next time we come up to Baghdad on the
Colorado...(that's my salute to Governor Goodhair)

You got your TxTag yet?

I've had the HCTRA EZTag (which is compatible with the TxTag setup in the
Austin area) since the day the Westpark Tollway opened.

Yeah, according to the TxTag site, all three--Dallas, Houston, and
Austin--are compatible.

Some of the toll plazas are going to be nothing but tag. You can go
through them and get your picture taken then they bill you adding in lotsa
lovely extra fees...

No kidding - that's why I got the EZTag when the Westpark was about to open a
couple of years ago.

Lot of people bitching and moaning over here about that. For me, though,
it's great.

My step-father asked why I got a tag when I don't go into the city all
that often. I replied it was because I don't go into the city all that
often. Considering the amount of the tolls, you *know a huge number of the
regular commuters are going to stay off the toll roads, leaving them open
for those of us who aren't doing anything in the city that's nearly as
productive.

Though I have to admit being amused at my home state over all this. The
bitching and moaning makes me laugh. All those years people here sneared
at California, now they're going to learn the hard way how California
got that way.

Meaning, if you *want a massive, maintained freeway system, you have to
*pay for a massive, maintained freeway system. You can't insist on having
no new taxes *and a multi-billion dollar toll free freeway system. Lot of
people here seem to think the non-toll freeways are "free." I guess they
think pixies build them.

(Of course, thanks to it having the right of way of the
old SP railroad line, it's only two lanes each way all the way from just west
of 610 all the way out to 99/Grand Parkway - nearly 14 miles. It's not a good
idea to use it in the same direction as the rush hour.)

Houston is such a perverse city. Somehow it fits I was born there...

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:41:53 -0500, The Chief Instigator wrote:

Remind me to stay east of 183 the next time we come up to Baghdad on the
Colorado...(that's my salute to Governor Goodhair)

You got your TxTag yet?

Some of the toll plazas are going to be nothing but tag. You can go
through them and get your picture taken then they bill you adding in lotsa
lovely extra fees...

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:53:29 -0500, The Chief Instigator wrote:

The one thing that has surprised me: if there was any enterprise that
I'd
pick to stake out more than one corner of any intersection around here,
I'd
have expected it to be Starbucks. They're almost as common as the
average
mosquito, but I have yet to see a Houston intersection that actually has
more
than one of the buggers. (If I want caffeine, I'll stick with the home
team:
Dr. Pepper.)

Speaking of which, we have arrived. The Starbucks just opened...

Speaking of which, we have arrived. The Starbucks just opened...

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:54:51 -0400, Robibnikoff wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:42:57 -0400, Robibnikoff wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message

snip

I've been doing that a lot lately. I seem to have had yet another rash
of
gray hairs. Fortunately, I've also developed that far sightedness
problem
that comes with age and can't focus all that well on my image in the
mirror if I get close in...

I know what you mean. I have a pair of reading glasses in every room
of
the
house as well as a pair in my purse and a pair at work. It's
obnoxious,
but
what are you gonna do?

I'm about to break down and buy more than one pair myself. Nothing like
trying to dial the cell phone at arm's length because the reading
glasses
are at the house...

Go ahead and do it - They're only a couple of bucks at CVS or Eckerds or
whatever you have out there.

Who knows what we have here fast as they're changing their names...

(Walk into an Eckerds, walk out of a CVS)