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January – March travels rapid fire

March 30, 2008 in Travel | No comments

So I haven’t really bothered to blog a lot of “this is what I did in real life” stuff. Mostly because my old blog was almost entirely composed of such entries, and it kinda got boring for me to constantly rehash activities. The OCD part of my brain refused to let me leave stuff out once I decided to include it, but I was too lazy to blog about events/activities immediately after they happened, so I would build up a chronological backlog of stuff I wanted to post about before I could let myself post about other stuff. And that’s too much like work.

Anyhow, ya, now if somebody expected me to blog about stuff I do, and found no such entries on my blog, they would possibly conclude that I didn’t do anything. Which would sometimes be very close to the truth. But other times it would be exactly the opposite.

So whatever, here goes a rapid fire style summary of my travels over the past 3 months for anybody who’s interested:

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H-town rapid fire

February 11, 2008 in Basketball, RealLife, Travel | 4 comments

So I definitely think of writing a lot more blog posts than I actually do. I’d say my thought-of to actually-posted ratio is probably like 20:1. Usually this is because I’m too lazy to actually type it out, or the idea is only a twitter-ish couple sentences – and I’m still woefully unable to post in that style.

But anyhow, here goes some Sheridan-inspired rapid fire on my first month or so in Houston:

Houston is big. Like, really big. So it’s not NYC or Mexico City or anything like that, but it’s still a lot of people, and it shows. The whole highway system is massively complex compared to anything in like Calgary, and (to me at least) often very impressively so. If I had a nice camera (and a helicopter?) I’d take pics of some of the sweet interchanges with multiple flyovers stacked up and crisscrossing mid-air. Of course this also means the traffic can be really bad, but overall I’d say it’s not as bad as I was expecting, whatever that was. I quickly learned what times to leave for / come home from work, and – moreover – what times not to do so.

Like most things in the U.S. (and everywhere…), having more money means immediate reward. I finally got hooked up with an “EZ tag” that lets me take the tollway and it just scans the sticker on your windshield, instead of having to wait in a stupidly long line just to pay like a $1 toll. Although sometimes it’s actually faster not to take the tollway, and to stick to the “feeder” roads that run parallel to it, providing access to the on/off traffic.

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