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  1. Pleak
    Waller is not one of those charming little Texas cities. It's just a stop in the road. I went to 2nd and 3rd grade there and still have family and friends around there. All that is happening is Cypress has no more large tracks of land so developers are moving up the freeway and buying up the ranches/farms around Waller/Hockley. So they need their Walgreens/Wal-Mart/Home Depot/Shell/Kohls/Supercuts/Chilis. Did I miss anything? People will come from Hockley, Hempstead, Pattison, Prairie View, Pine Island - yes - because there is no alternative there. They will not come from Brookshire or Navasota - this is nothing special. Navasota will still go to College Station - much more there and its closer and Brookshire will go to Sealy. This is a big strip center that is needed in that area because it is a very fast growing area. It is not the second coming of downtown Houston.
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    Thanks for the tip. After six years - how has the finish held up? Years ago we had our countertops refinished and they were the most delicate things imaginable.
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    Nope - I have two bathrooms of my own that are in partial remodel. One we are still trying to figure out exactly what we are going to do - how much to save. You don't happen to know a good bathtub refinishing service do you? If we can refinish/save our tub and surrounding tile - it will make our remodel a lot smaller (and less $$). Understand the busy at work. I am waiting till after Oct. 15 to get anything done in my life.
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    I know she is out in the Atlantic and not the Gulf, but I think she is lost. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/145616.shtml?radii#contents
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    Do it yourself? You seem to be fairly handy from your posts here. And I've found out that tilework is one of the easiest home improvements to do yourself. Just take your time, don't rush it and make sure you have everything squared up before you start. I even ended buying a real tile saw from Harbor Freight because it was cheaper than renting repeatedly a tile saw. It has paid off immensely over the years. And it's actually kinda fun in a weird sort of way. Just hard on the knees as I get older.
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    Crane is mostly up today. It's as tall as it's going to get - just have to finish building the rest of it.
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    It might be a bit bland, but compared to what was there before - 8 story concrete tower from the 70's - which would you rather have? Plus if it really fills up with all these foodie restaurants like the press releases hint at and becomes a destination for great food - will anyone actually care if it was the world's tallest faux stucco monstrosity?
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    And was there an offsetting uptick in upemployed orangutans lurking around Midtown and the Greyhound Bus Station turning an otherwise pristine neighborhood into an urban jungle?
  9. Pleak
    20 years ago people were saying this about the Heights. And definately Mid-town. Sharpstown has a lot going for it - especially as others have said if you are not near to a problem apartment complex.
  10. Pleak
    You might be right. I must have hit my head and lost the memory. That could explain so many other things, but I digress. Your front seat tale makes me think of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer stops short on George's mom.
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    I was looking at it more from a cost point of view. Comparitive cheap price of land in Houston vs. cost of a super-tall tower (which 70-80 floors is pushing). Nowadays, Houston has become extremely practical and I think more land (which we still have an abundance of) would be used over extra height. Unfortunately - for the tall building nerd in me.
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    My truck is older - 1997 - so no front air bag. So one of the big child seats goes in between my wife and me in front on the split bench. That lets us get more car seats/boosters in than the newer ones can. I'm toying with the idea of finding a good welding shop and running a 1" steel bar behind the rear bench in my cab of my pickup. Up near the top of the seat. Then I could attach two more shoulder belts in the middle to it giving me 4 seatsbelts in back. My kids are small - and even full grown will be able to fit four across (once we get rid of those &*$* car seats).
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    I agree - I'm glad they are safer too. And it's past kindergarten. I believe the new law which came into effect last year is booster seat till eight years old or 80 lbs. I'm glad they have the age limit - my 17 year old is only 87 lbs - she didn't hit 80 till about 2 years ago. She would have been pretty upset to have to be put back into a booster. When I was little, I use to love to stretch out across the whole back seat and sleep. Guess it's a good thing there was never a panic stop needed back then.
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    I most profoundly apologize. I shall now scurry back to the dim recesses of the Sugarland and the Southwest Forum.
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    It took just under a year to rebuild the I-35 bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. That was something like an 8-10 lane bridge and 1200 feet long. I realize that the big ditch by the Heights can see extraordinary currents - but are you really comparing it to the Mississippi?
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    It would be really cool if a straight extrapolation of those numbers would mean we were going to get an 80-story hotel. Unreasonable, but cool.
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    It's not just the required seat belts that are the big users of space. Its the child seats. That's where the real arms race in size is. They are friggin huge. I'll be glad when the last two little ones get tall and heavy enough to be only in belts. It will be much more room and comfort for everyone else in the vehicle. I admit - they probably are safer for the little ones (although with it seems like just about every single brand eventually being recalled - who knows) but man to they take up space.
  18. Pleak
    Thank you. Unfortunately on here, personal choices too often are deemed incorrect whether they are are what you drive, where you choose to live, how many square feet your house is, what you believe, how much you recycle, or how often you shop at Whole Foods vs. Wal-Mart. When in reality, this forum should all be discussing how too much faux stucco sucks.
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    Or one like the big air freshener on top of the Memorial Hermann building at Gessner & I-10.
  20. Pleak
    Sounds like you have the 6.0 SuperDuty. Is that right? That one was notorious for engine fires caused by the EGR regen cycle. You're right about EGR being a flawed technology. Speaking of going down in flames - Navistar bet the whole company on EGR instead of SCR for their big rigs too - and they just completely dumped all their last 10+ years work and are scrambling to license SCR tech from Caterpiller because the EPA said that their EGR does not and will never achieve the emissions level required. So the once favored technology has almost destroyed a big old corporation. I have a feeling that somebody will buy them up before long - they are hurting so bad from this. You should have bought an old-school Powerstroke. Those 7.3's last forever. I still get between 15-16 mpg on mine. Turned over 349,000 miles two weeks ago. But since you're being harangued by the HAIF do-goody police, I suggest instead you buy this: It should suffice for your towing and commuting needs all in one vehicle.
  21. Pleak
    I saw that - not quite a tower crane though. It's more of a mini tower with about 10 large concrete counter-weights balanced on the back. I'm still watching the construction race with the Hines development behind the Waterwall. I think Hines is still slightly ahead - even though there is a delay on one half of the property while they demolished the old sales office of the Turnberry development.
  22. Pleak
    I wonder if someone could figure out a way to calculate a "rendering coefficient". i.e. how close a final product turns out in relation to its original rendering that was used to sell the development. I think that would be an interesting metric on judging design firms.
  23. Pleak
    Mid-town.
  24. Pleak
    Now the real gripe in this thread is I don't believe that this can possibly be a bike sold by Wal-Mart. After all - we all know that everything sold by Wal-Mart is cheap, plastic Chinese crap. And there definately is metal of some type in that photo.
  25. Pleak
    Your heading is wrong. It's on 45N - not the Gulf Freeway.
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