reunited

I guess the true sign of friendship is being able to grow separate without growing apart. I found this to be true this weekend as we all (minus a very important part wasting away in san fransisco, and by wasting away I mean living the dream) gathered to celebrate the death (i.e. marriage) of one brian smiley. His actual mortality will not cease until next saturday, so as to follow american tradition held a bachelor party. Also following tradition, I will not speak a word (or type a word) of the events that occurred during this sacred bond.

Since my entire weekend is off limits to the blog world, let me tell you about some other fun things. I found this website today http://www.colorwarecp.com , and was very intrigued. They do professional customized paint of a whole line of electronics. The most popular item have been phones and ipods, and the work is absolutely fantastic though a bit pricey. A custom blackberry curve can cost as much as 170 bucks to have colored. I would recommend playing with the website because it offers a lot of fun trying to mix and match colors to create the perfect expression of yourself.

 

A few things I learned about houston today:

- avoid the galleria on labor day and weekends. The amount of people there today was just mind baffling, and most weren’t there shopping but “posting up”. I somehow missed the intersection where the galleria turned into highland mall.

-Raisin Canes closes for labor day. This was actually a kick to the face, a very surprising round house kick to that. For two days me, will todd, and john david barnes (you will for sure be hearing more about this guy during my stay in houston) had this excellent plan of eating canes on the last night before will gives up his soul to merrill lynch. So i drove westwardly (yes i left the protection of the 610 loop (yes i’m still working on my inner loop pretention so forgive me if i’m over the top, i’m still calibrating) ) to meet them at canes only to find it closed. dagger.

-Houston is full of bad drivers. I guess that could be said of any city, or the world for that matter. But I’m writing my congressman asking for mandatory eye/driving tests once you hit 55 so renew your license. Yes, i’m willing to sacrifice my own father’s license in the process, we’ll call it collateral damage.

 

It also hasn’t hit me that i’ve actually moved. I have yet to spend a weekend here, and this upcoming weekend will be spent in austin as well. I’m waiting for that inevitable moment when i finally realize that i’ve moved for good.