Leigh Ann just emailed me with the news.
As of 9:00 THIS MORNING, they are CLOSED. C-L-O-S-E-D. No last chance for pizza. No last goodbye. No last pitcher of beer. NOTHING.
This is just too awful to describe. Terry’s has Legend status in my family. It was not only the first [...]

Last week we took the girls to see the Lion King musical that’s playing for a few weeks at the Hobby Center here in Houston. We bought the tickets nearly a year ago, and I had forgotten about the date, despite Wendy’s attempts to warn me it was coming up soon.
The show was simply spectacular. [...]

Photos from the first BarCamp Houston. More photos at Flickr.
(These are not my photos, by the way… other people took them and posted them to Flickr.)

The Buddha Lounge, a nice little conference center where BarCamp Houston was held.

I’m spending this morning and early afternoon at an “unconference” called BarCamp Houston. I brought my laptop because the camp has a 54mbps wifi connection. I’m not going to try to provide a continuous running commentary, but I’ll be posting a few things during the day.
We’re holding the first session right now on “How to [...]

Last night I went with a group organized by Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle to see Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth. It was an interesting movie, and I came away from it with some things to think about and even research. I’m not going to go into it in detail right now, but [...]

I’m sitting in the Birmingham airport waiting for my flight home to board. This morning Dad and I met Jennifer and Leigh Ann for a breakfast buffet at B&J’s restauraunt (where Catfish Haven used to be), then Leigh Ann, Jennifer and I went to Hartselle to do some antique/junk shopping. After lunch at a Mexican [...]

Brewer High School baseball tonight. Poor kids – they tried hard, but gave up a bunch of runs and ended up getting beat 16-1. Chris pitched, but didn’t last long. He later scored the Patriots’ only run.
When Leigh Ann and I came back to Daddy’s house, I happened to notice this big ol’ spider loitering [...]

Today Dad and I mowed his lawn. Dad mowed the back outside the fence, and I mowed the front. We didn’t mow inside the fence (I think he was afraid I’d mow his garden.) We’re going to clean up and go shopping, and then dinner at Terry’s Pizza!
Mmm… I ate a bunch of slices of [...]

This morning Dad and I drove out to spend a few hours with Bobby and Marcia. We visited over beer and a great meal. Marcia grilled us a flank steak with cole slaw, yummy potato salad, and fresh strawberries for dessert. Leigh Ann made us dinner at her house tonight, as she does for Dad [...]

Dad put me to work in the garden today. First he had me till the entire garden. He and Leigh Ann laid had out the rows far enough apart that the tractor and tiller can fit comfortably between them, so all I had to do was follow the rows. I only ran over one bunch [...]

Last night was Polar Bear Night at the Brewer High School ballpark: the first ten thousand through the gate got free winter weather to go with their baseball. They didn’t hand out the winter weather until after the sun went down, and because there was only a hundred or so people at the game, there [...]

On our Saturday outing, Leigh Ann and I wandered into a junk shop in a tiny old house on Pratt Avenue in Huntsville’s historic district. The woman there had a bunch of oil paintings; they were all hand-painted, although I don’t think any were originals, but copies of classic paintings from the eighteenth or nineteenth [...]