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Not really soggy, though the glaze will start to melt under certain conditions. They will get stale.

Spend some time in the Alps, both in the summer and in the winter. Have some gluhwein when the weather gets cold. It's something that's hard to find here. Side trips to Poland and the Czech Republic. South Tyrol if you can make it. This one's in central France, but is pretty cool. It's an ongoing project to build a 13th century castle from scratch using only medieval tools and techniques. http://www.guedelon.fr/en/ Being a military history buff I'd probably visit sites associated with WW1 and 2.

I'd reverse numbers 1 and 2 if you can. If you've got an amenable friend or relative in town, use their address when applying for a job so you appear local until you can actually be local.

I did the same thing straight out of college. New degree, no job, no interviews. Just packed up the car and drove from Waco to Atlanta. I had a few thousand in the bank and some friends who were finishing up at Georgia Tech and needed a roommate. Spent a couple of months kicking around town til I found a job and the rest is history. If you're young and single, now's the time to do it. Later on you'll have kids and a mortgage and just picking up and moving will seem like crazy talk.

We went to the new location once just after it opened. Don't recall the food, but the decor and building was something to see. I think I saw a sign for a hookah joint there a few months ago. The old shopping center where it used to be located on Dairy Ashford has been remodeled and a few new tenants have moved in but it's mostly vacant.

Wasn't there a huff about Rice selling it's station to UH a few years ago? Now UH is ditching the station? I've always thought it's part of the public duty of the local public university to maintain a station like that along with pbs tv. Sad.

Isn't there a city of Houston pool over on 35th? Or are we looking for something a little more exclusive?

No PC on HAIF? You must have missed the 100+ page thread on the Heights Walmart.

Drove past the highway 6 location yesterday and they've got the signs on the building and equipment is visible in the window but it's not open yet. The Westheimer/Dunvale location is almost as far along, but the signs aren't up yet.

Singapore has a density of 19k per square mile vs Houston's density of about 3,500 per square mile. That makes a huge difference in what is practical for mass transit.

Just park one of these on your front lawn and put up year-round Christmas lights and you'll send them all into a tizzy.

That's a good idea, but in practice upper middle class parents tend to be more concerned with careers, socializing, and their own personal lifestyles to spend much time trying to improve the schools. They'd prefer to drop the kids off at a school with "the right sort of people" so they don't have to unduly worry about how the school is raising their children. The only exceptions to that that I've seen is where the parents were raised in large, close-knit, loving families and in particular where one spouse deliberately leaves a lucrative career to stay home and raise the kids. That can be hard to do in a place like the Heights where two six figure salaries might be needed to buy a house big enough for a family.

Now there's an interesting idea...carve out, or better yet build into the system, protected bike lanes in the hov.

Robert Eckels is a former County Judge of Harris County. Though that position has the title of "Judge", it is in fact the executive head for the County government. It's not a judicial position. Robert Eckels is no more a judge than his successor Ed Emmett is.

Not only that but the article states the offering was oversubscribed which means a lot of money wants in on this. I'd love to see a bootleg copy of the prospectus on this.

I use the 59 hov in and out bound frequently and don't have a toll tag. There are two or three places where the road splits and hov is one side and toll is on the other. I would imagine they can or do put automated counters at certain spots like these to measure traffic counts.

I guess that makes sense since we're a port city...you gotta put all those old anchors somewhere...

4. You may want to check out Game Over, 3281 Southwest Fwy. I've never been to Replay Games but you can find just about any old home video game there, in playable condition with many cartridges. They also have a little museum in the back. 5. If you continue down Westheimer past Westchase you'll get to the original Phoenicia market. That's worth the trip alone. There are some good restaurants west of there as well plus a fair size half-price books.

I'm afraid you will need to return to little league, then.

Where o where was that when I was at Baylor?

You can get both of those in Austin for a much shorter drive. Seriously, though, you ought to try to stay a day or two in the dfw area. They've got some good museums and other things to visit. If you're going through Waco, you can stop in West and have some Czech/German food. They used to make some really good kolaches up that way.

I'd stop at the Dallas city limit and turn around.

Saw one in my yard yesterday. I see them occasionally, but never in abundance, where I live on the west side. Are there areas of Houston where they are (or used to be) common?

I would think that an oil company would have helicopters based at Ellington and would just fly vip's wherever needed. Lot cheaper than moving the exxon campus south.