Family way up here, at the very best, are kinfolks I get to see \\maybe\\ once a year. Vague recollections, life-long memories, half thoughts, and my Aunt and Uncle, looking back at being married for 50 years. I was standing on the balcony for the hotel I was at, looking at the offending source of … Family reunions and such

Airline food. Wish I could find that site again, {{popup flitefood.jpg flitefood 320×240}}but here’s the picture of my delicious in-flight meal service. Four hours on a plane, good thing I read the itinerary and realized I wasn’t going to get any kind of meal service. I know that to start out, so that’s why I … Road two –

It gets weirder every minute of the day. The security guard in Austin looked at my T-shirt, \\Cafe Excalibur – Red Light District – Amsterdam,\\ “That a good place?” Sure. “What is it? Seafood?” No, long pause, coffee? “It’s in Houston?” Then, despite having a connecting flight through SeaTac, on a sunny day in Seattle, … It gets weirder every minute of the day

Notice to hotmail account holders Hotmail has problems? Wednesday afternoon, before I took off for the office, I sent out the weekly horoscopes, all rolled up and ready to fly. Before I ever got out the door, every last hotmail address bounced. Want to see what it looks like on this end? \\Addressee unknown Giving … Notice to hotmail account holders

I am not a painter. Piet Mondrian [Dutch, 1872-1944] The Mondrian Exhibit, now at the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth, is well worth the admission. Funny, I used to chase a girl in Ft. Worth and never made it to the museum, but then, she left town, and I’m there a lot. And I … I am not a painter

Tuesday’s plan [Caution: slow dip] 1] Get caught up on scopes 2] Post Office, mail off some eBay stuff 3] Barton Spring/Creek for a dunk in the water 4] BBQ 5] Nap What actually happened. Didn’t start out well. Recently, I’d dropped a lot of my Unsolicited Commercial E-mail blocks, and that resulted in a … Tuesday’s plan [Caution: slow dip]

Bookends I posted the entry about the Hybrid car, and I forgot the best part. I filled its tank in Tucumcari. I drove, from the math in my head, based on the odometer, 600 miles. I still had almost a quarter of tank of gas when I hit Dallas, to deliver the car. When I … Bookends

Hybrid cars I’m really enjoying this little Toyota Hybrid Prius [?] – don’t ask me about make and model numbers, unless you’re inquiring about certain topics that I know – usually in an intimate way. Certain marquees of European motorcycles, early 1970’s Lincoln’s, Ford’s 300 cubic inch inline six, like I said, unless the inquiry … Hybrid cars

Cadillac Ranch I got to thinking – time on the road gives me time to mull over certain aspects of my life – and I realized that I’ve just about covered all of Texas this year. January, El Paso. February, Corpus Christi & Bossier City, LA. March – back to El Paso. That’s NE, South, … Cadillac Ranch