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  1. KristinDaugherty
    I think that's out of our price range, but I'll check. Thanks!
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    It's virtually full. One one-bedroom apartment is coming up in the next couple months; the resident smokes like, well, like someone who lives to smoke, and I cannot imagine what they will have to go through to render the place habitable again. Walden is right there in Windsor Plaza ... hmmm. Thanks!
  3. KristinDaugherty
    Preferably under $1200, at least 2 bedrooms, cat-friendly, no kids so no care about schools. My work is moving to Westchase sometime this year, so not too far east.
  4. KristinDaugherty
    None of that is comforting to someone who cannot sleep in my own home. There's no way to soundproof sliding glass doors, and a building built in 1963 is as sturdy as they come. Hence my original question. I can get on HAR.com or flip through that little grocery-store mag all day, but that won't tell me what I'm looking to know.
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    Because it's awful. The building - which was built in 1963, so you know it's solid - shakes. Not like the downtown tall buildings do in the wind - I'm talking, like, pictures vibrating on the wall. And I'm not sure where you got six months from; we're being told December, so more like double that.
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    I currently live at Chateaux Dijon, and the construction next door is killing us. Seven in the morning, jackhammers and bulldozers, right outside my bedroom, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. The noise itself is bad - ballistic ear plugs don't handle it - but the vibration is far worse. The whole building is shaking. There are no more units in the Mustard House to be had, so I am sad to think we gotta look elsewhere. (The amount of money this will cost is gonna be ridiculous, but sleep is important.) Can anyone recommend quaint, funky apartments or condos or townhomes or similar, preferably that don't cost more than a house? We both work in the Galleria, so of course we'd love to stay in the area, but if we gotta get further out, we gotta.
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    I'm in this boat. I live in Chateaux Dijon, next to what used to be Pilgrim Elementary but is now gonna be an apartment complex. The heavy machines start up, literally outside my back door, at seven in the morning, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. I am about to lose my mind and have no idea what I can do. The construction super is nice but unhelpful (I've been over there three times to ask that they please work on some other part of the site for that first hour). My lease isn't up until the end of July and I am frantic. Any advice? I'm sure they're inside the decibel level, so I can't call the cops.
  8. KristinDaugherty
    We saw no serpents, but it was midday, there were seven of us, and we are not the stealthiest beings in the county.
  9. KristinDaugherty
    Aha, the fountain! I almost fell into it, trying to hang on to the tree that climbs above it. The fountain itself is gorgeous; the water in it can only be described as fetid. FWIW, we had four models and three photographers, and we didn't get any haunting vibes. It would be a huge shame if the place is torn down, but I can't imagine anyone taking the trouble to reno it. There's no upstairs now; the walls still stand, but I don't think any second-floor rooms have a roof or a floor anymore. The pink bathroom is completely smashed up, sadly. I should note that there don't seem to be any doors now, so if doors are banging at night, well ...
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    I can't find a thing about it on HAIF, and I'm surprised because I figure y'all know it ALL about buildings in Houston and surrounding. So today, I was in a photo shoot at the Stewart mansion, far west end of Galveston island. It is one of the most phenomenal buildings I've ever been in. There's almost nothing left of the upstairs, and the downstairs is following suit, but the place had to have been just epic in its heyday. Anyone know anything beyond what Googling yields, which is essentially: built in 1926, bought by Maco Stewart, given to UTMB, sold to George Mitchell, now owned by local investment group. No talk of when it became vacant, why it's been abandoned for so long, or what anyone plans to do with it.
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    This is true, and I forgot how many concept drawings don't always bear a 100% resemblance to eventual reality. Construction proceeds apace; ground is bulldozed and there are stakes in it here and there.
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    Hey, thanks! Wonder what that street is. That's not Richmond that the car in front is driving on. We don't have elliptical esplanades. And the little cross-street just behind that car, that can't be Barrington, because there's already a building on the other side of that intersection, where Pete's Fine Meats is. I guess that'd be an entrance drive to the complex? I also guess my building is offstage in that picture, further left. How do y'all find this stuff? Do you just search chron.com?
  13. KristinDaugherty
    We get a lot of steampunk types at the Renaissance Festival. The requirements seem to be goggles, stripes, black, brown, red, gears, gaiters, metal, and satin. It's done with varying degrees of goodness, like all costume play.
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    So I live in Chateaux Dijon, and my balconies overlook the empty lot that was formerly Pilgrim Elementary. This morning, a bulldozer crew showed up and yanked out all the oak trees along the Mustard House fence line, including a huge old one that shaded both balconies gorgeously and now my electric bill will be liek woah but anyway ... what's going in over there? How do y'all find out what's being built where?
  15. KristinDaugherty
    Yes sir, get Tommy Thompson's book. Ann Kurth's is almost unreadable.
  16. KristinDaugherty
    Now, y'all, stop being so hard on the OWS guys. They went to all the trouble to make up hand signals for us! TWINKLE FINGERS!
  17. KristinDaugherty
    How does one get to be a citizen of Houston? What's the difference between being a "citizen of Houston" and a Houstonian? Am I one because I was born here? Is there a special induction ceremony for newcomers?
  18. KristinDaugherty
    740 used to be my (short) drive-time fix for weather, traffic, and quick news updates. Now, ugh. I just check the 'Net before I leave and listen to my iPod.
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    I love it just like Lyle.
  20. KristinDaugherty
    Jeez, that's annoying. That better be some WAY good food to get me in past that hippie drivel.
  21. KristinDaugherty
    Because I am a dumbass, I can't understand why doing nothing to the Dome costs us $2 million a year. Can someone please enlighten me as to what that cash goes for?
  22. KristinDaugherty
    They may roll through the intersection the sign is supposed to govern, but not through the actual signs themselves, unless said cars are WAAAAY cooler than what I've seen lately.
  23. KristinDaugherty

    can't find the New Posts button ... sadness

    1. marmer

      marmer

      Kristin: look right above this box where it says "View New Content." That works like New Posts.

    2. editor

      editor

      The old New Posts button will be back soonish, and hopefully with improved functionality.

  24. KristinDaugherty
    Sadly, I will be working Wine and Food Week that night, along with many other TRF performers ... but if I get back to this side of town early enough, I might pop in!
  25. KristinDaugherty
    I live in Chateaux Dijon, over in the Galleria area - I'm led to understand it's older than I am, and I'm of 1968 vintage. It seems as well-kept as possible, given its size and occupancy. Old apartments have character; new ones are cracker boxes. I looked at several new complexes before I picked my place. It has a charm and an architectural interest that none of the new ones have. There's something like 40 different apartment layouts in the Mustard House; the new places I looked at had oh, like five.
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