in Houston...

[jay]

Crowded flight, no upgrade, and some guy moved up and simply took the vacant middle seat next to me (I was in an exit row). I made sure to give him as little room as civilly possible. And a couple of accidental elbows.

Rental car... I had a full-size 2-door reserved, usually a Mustang (this was Hertz), nonsmoking, no foreign cars specified. They gave me... a Toyota Solara that smelled of tobacco. Plus it only had a 4-cylinder engine... looked sporty, but couldn't take it seriously with an econobox engine. I wondered if Hertz had somehow learned that I was a friend of dawnd and akienm's... I went back and got a Taurus with a sunroof.

Looks like a piece of highway history is disappearing... "NASA Road 1", which is the Texas state highway that connects I-45 to JSC to Galveston Bay, is being renamed "NASA Parkway" and given some generic highway number. Maybe this is truly trivial, but somehow it feels like one more of those 1960s Space Age artifacts is vanishing.

Now... working on my poster for Thursday night, IMs with people at home, while indulging in comfort food (ribs, corn, fried okra...) that I brought into my hotel room.

Comments

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

Wow. I should look at a map. I spent most of my high school summers in Houston, going up to work with my mom. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. Sometimes I worked, sometimes I bummed around Montrose. The last time I was there my favorite coffee shop had become a wine bar, and I was disturbed.

I do get nostalgic towards a certain place in time for Montrose, though.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

I spent time in Montrose in like 1982-1985 (high school and college), and was last there in 1995 or so...and by that time, I'd been living in SF, so my idea of a "really gay" neighborhood may also have shifted a great deal.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Down here, they talk about that area (Montrose) as though it were a dangerous part of town...

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

Really? *blink* Well, I was there regularly in 1992. And then it turned into wine bars.