Again, I find the couch is not made up for company. I am unlocking the door and inviting ya’ll in. I, unfortunately, have work to do, so please help yourself to the beverages and leftovers in the fridge, and talk amongst yourselves until I can join in your pleasant company. Make yourself at home!
PS: The plunger behind the toilet is there for a reason.
Yippee. My first post of the year is up!
Well this has been the veterinarian week, the Boy has a Bull Terrier that is about crazy, She eats everything! A chew toy last 3-30 minutes before She consumes it, She’s eaten a remote, a cell phone and a cell phone charger. They try to make sure She can’t get to anything but not always. Earlier in the week She… Read more »
Well I guess everyone stayed up late and may be sleeping in. I turned in about 10:30 had all the excitment I could stand.
Mornin’ Gang
Happy New Year, Swabbie. And Texpat. And Hammie. Wherever you are. :>)
#80 B42
At last, a wholesome date for Bob! Happy New Year, guy.
#82 con’t
BTW, I feel your pain, we got mapped into SJL’s district at our old house in the 90’s and had no voice.
mharper Would you be OK with those simple rectanges for voting districts? Nope. Democrats ran the show for half a century never bothering to throw Republicans any cookies, I don’t know why we always gotta play nice guy. We need to play the game the way they do, we get it all nice and nuetral and one well timed shift… Read more »
#80 Bob42 In regards to naming things – I have a habit of naming all sorts of things around the house. As a matter of fact, I’ve christened Hubby with a few extra names, most of which cannot be said in mixed company. 🙂 He purchased a big honkin’ commercial floor cleaner (without consulting me) and wanted to name it… Read more »
The “kid” crew stopped by, shot some pool and went about their other various and diverse plans, so no party tonight, and no kids on the carpet in the AM. I’m half relieved and half worried.
I’ve decided give a name my to Rhodes piano project: Bessie. I think I’ll go downstairs and see her.
#78 WB
Lovely just called to verify pick up of the much anticipated dinner. She also teased me about a yummy surprise of some kind. mmmmmmmmmmmm
#77 crazy aunt
You two need to slow down a little bit; you’re getting a little crazy there.
n.b. Star Pizza is awesome. Whole wheat deep-dish veggie, hold the cauliflower, add sauteed spinach & garlic. Eat it down to the edge crust, then put butter & honey on that part.
**drool**
Lovely Daughter is volunteering Star Pizza for dinner tonight, and we have a lovely video to watch. That will make it a very happy New Year.
Signing off for the night (and probably day tomorrow). We’re heading over to a friend’s house for the revelry and staying put until after the black-eyed peas and hog jowls have been consumed for dinner tomorrow.
Thanks go out to all of you for your continuing participation in this social media experiment. Happy New Year!
#70 Tim Would you be OK with those simple rectanges for voting districts? Since black citizens are 12% of the population, give-or-take, but tend to live in clumps in urban areas — someone posted some demographic city maps recently showing just that — there could be some rectangles with minority majority w/o all the political convolutions. #63 Sarge I need… Read more »
#69 Hamous
Yep, I know it isn’t going to happen in my lifetime or prolly ever. And I remembered that the 18th Congressional District’s first incumbent was Barbara Jordan.
Burka girls gone wild!
Content Advisory: Full frontal nose, chin, mouth. Watch at your own risk.
I have heard that one of the new districts will run between HOU and San Antone…must be one of the assured “R” districts. Should that happen, I’ll probably be in it. Rep. McCaul’s district now runs from Round Rock to Katy.
Happy New Year, Hamboners. Adee: We shall be at home tonight, trying to stay awake until midnight as usual on New Year’s Eve We’ve had the same tradition going for about ten years, now. Last time we went out for New Year’s Eve, some moron stranded a tractor on the shoulder with the left wheels encroaching three feet into the… Read more »
Give ’em one to play in while we get four 70%, give or take, Republican districts. Could be five or six 50/50 districts playing watered down conservative politics. My numbers may be off some, but that’s the thinking behind the lines.
SJL’s district was set up for black representation long before she occupied the seat. After the 1990 census Gene Green’s district was created to be a Hispanic seat (but a funny thing happened on the way to the election). Two of our four new congressional districts will probably be drawn as Hispanic seats. Basically they are all token seats. We’ll… Read more »
#54 mharper42
In the ’50s and ’60s racist white people had free reign to harass blacks and Hispanics without, or at least very little, restraint and without stigmatization by the media. The tables have turned now. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are our modern day Lester Maddox and Bull Connor. And it’s as wrong now as it was then.
Well I just hooked up my 1974 Toshiba SA400 amp to the disc changer and the TV at SO’s house.
The Pioneer is too big for her speakers.
Radio recollections: I was never on the air at Nova 104, but did do engineering work for them. The original licensee/owner was the renegade son of an oil millionaire and spared no expense on the studios or transmitter. They had way cool stuff in the studio, but the boy screwed up in going with a start-up outfit instead of the… Read more »
They did fog up the car’s windows, didn’t they?
GJT & Bob: bob; I still have Polk audio speakers running in my bedroom. I bought them over 20 years ago and they still sound fine. Though Polk Audio would not be my first choice now, these were good speakers. Run your speakers as log as you can. no need to swap them unless you just want to. GJT; Bottom… Read more »
The law does require us to have “majority minority” districts.
Sux, but thats the law.
According to the Voting Rights Act, it is.
Just hide and watch the lawsuits after redistricting.
Its the reason Queen Sheila ius in Congress.
Tim, why would Tom Delay set up the 18th district for “Shirley” Jackson-Lee?
GJT #32;
I agree that the staff is good at AMC in the Woodlands but there is constant problems with the sound cutting out in the middle of a film. Either the surround sound goes out which very few people notice but annoys me or the sound goes out entirely.
#57 Mharper
From your lips to God’s ears. Who ever said that one person of one color can’t represent the needs of persons of other colors?
Or is racism required for redistricting?
mharper
The gerrymandered districts we currently have are the genious of Tom Delay and crew. Ted Poe and John Culberson are not in 50-50 districts where they have to play the politically correct game and can be their fundamentalist religious nutjob selves. 😛
Finally had time to go back and finish up some HouChron editorials I had set aside in the last week. One was Froma Harrop’s column from Dec 23 on the latest US census. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7352735.html This liberal Yankee isn’t likely to understand much about Texas, but I found this opinion a bit bizarre: Until recently, Texas Republicans have been able to… Read more »
#55
20 yrs old working in the oil patch in the boom days. We all had more money than sense. 😀
#53 GJT $400 in 1979 = $1206 in 2010!? 😯
#34 Hammy One of the more disturbing aspects of your story about the mob attacking a Marine and his wife outside the Florida theater is how the MSM concealed the race of the offenders with phrases like a group of unruly teenagers Here’s a different link that specifically points that out. http://cofcc.org/2010/12/media-censors-race-after-mob-of-black-teens-riot-and-attack-whites-outside-movie-theater/ Why do the media do this? Don’t they… Read more »
Better info on the Mach Ones .
#51
These are my fronts, Realistic Mach Ones, bought in 1979 for around 400 bucks I think. Audiophiles prolly would laugh, but I still like ’em.
#50 When I went surround a few years ago I bought new Bose for the fronts and center, and re-missioned these for the rears. 30 Years on they still sound nice.
RE: 5.1 Surround Sound After my son bought me a subwoofer for Christmas, I’m pumped about my HT again. My AVR is capable of 7.1 but I never got around to putting in the backs. I thought I’d remembered running the wires for it when the house was being built. I rooted around the insulation yesterday and yes, by golly… Read more »
#47 SD
You had to do that didn’t ya.
/drooling
#46
Oh so all the dyin’ was ok, huh?? 😛
#45 GJT Thanks, I’ll have to check that out,…..Now I wonder if Jesse will let me borrow his 1970 Chevelle 396? 😀
About the Titanic Move, Daughter really wanted me to take Her to see it. She was in Her early teens, I think, and if I’d known about the scene in the 1912 Renault I don’t think I have went. 😳
#38 SD I call it the Houston area, you prolly wouldn’t. The Showboat Drive-In, on 2920 in Hockley outside of Tomball. We love going there but the movie selections are mostly for families with young ‘uns, which is a good thing. We did some work for them on an old manlift a few months back, the owner told me they… Read more »
I can’t watch any movie with Richard Harris in it. They should be used in drama class as lessons in overacting. Or maybe it’s this that causes my aversion.
#37 Phil
Well That S’plains it.
It took me 20 years before I could really appreciate Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo.
But Walter Brennan helped.
Its cuz they really did have English accents back then.
But only when they spoke English.
Weird, I know.
re: Phil’s link in #37
Great.
Sarge
AMEN to that!! Why would you get Glen Cambell or Willie Nasal or even Kinny Rodgers to play in a movie? I just don’t get it.