I Like Texas........

SATX*APhi · #1 08-10-2007, 05:11 PM

I hit The Peddler Show every time they are in town (every 3 months). I loooove it! Anyone else?

Upcoming dates:
Arlington Peddler Show
August 10 - 12 2007

Corpus Christi (new facility)
August 17 - 19, 2007

Midland
August 24 - 26, 2007

Plano (Fall Dates Added!)
September 7 - 9, 2007

Bryan/College Station
September 14 - 16, 2007

Pasadena
September 21 - 23, 2007

Bossier City (Cancelled)
October 5 - 7, 2007

Lubbock
October 12 - 14, 2007

Amarillo
October 19 - 21, 2007

Rosenberg
October 26 - 28, 2007

Kevlar281 · #2 08-18-2007, 03:53 PM

Not to bust up the music conversation. But when Tropical Storm Erin came through Houston my sister-in-law flooded her car. My brother was at work so she called me up asking for help. We live only a block away from each other so it only took me five minutes to get over there and by the time I did there were already three men pushing her car into her driveway. It was definitely one of those proud to be Texan moments.

justabeachbrat · #3 08-18-2007, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevlar281

Not to bust up the music conversation. But when Tropical Storm Erin came through Houston my sister-in-law flooded her car. My brother was at work so she called me up asking for help. We live only a block away from each other so it only took me five minutes to get over there and by the time I did there were already three men pushing her car into her driveway. It was definitely one of those proud to be Texan moments.

Ah, yes, Texas rain, and storms. My newly-wed sister, fresh from Sunset Beach, Ca, moved to Tex in 2001, June, "near Huntsville" (actually the woods, a house way out of town). She followed her then new husband-- now ex-- in her car, tailing his. They hit Houston as the sky opened up, for days. I don't know if the storm had an official name, my sister had several names for it, none acceptable on GC.
Rather than forge ahead, they holed up in a motel for a few days in Houston. Then, he headed on, she was to follow, he thought she was fine. Her car made it barely out of the lot, and was way deep in water. The depth of the water grows as she has told the story over time.
Anyway, she was sitting atop her car, wet and pissed.
Two truckers stopped, one carried her to a dry area, they pushed the car out of the water. They noticed the CA license plates and the Wind and Sea t-shirt she wore (from a former huntington Beach surf shop), and one of the truckers told her: "little girl, you really must have made a wrong turn."

As posted, my best friend, a Texan, fled CA, now is home. I visited her and my sister. The only original painting I own was bought in Texas, of a girl on a horse, with beautiful sky. It and two small pictures, of Texas clouds, and a horse/cowboy by a campfire, I bought for $4 at a thrift store in a tiny town near Victoria, are up in my new apt.

icelandelf · #4 08-18-2007, 11:43 PM

Well, as a result of Erin, here in San Antonio, we've had a few flood related deaths and it took out the entire first floor of one of the high schools. Students are set to go back to school in a week or so and the district is going to have to send them to it's only other high school. We had a lot of rain this last couple of days.

justabeachbrat · #5 08-18-2007, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by icelandelf

Well, as a result of Erin, here in San Antonio, we've had a few flood related deaths and it took out the entire first floor of one of the high schools. Students are set to go back to school in a week or so and the district is going to have to send them to it's only other high school. We had a lot of rain this last couple of days.

sorry to hear of deaths, the rough weather.

i hopefully didn't make light of bad weather, it just seemed so endless, the rain, 2001. Rain, i think we have had 1 day or 2 of it this summer. none in weeks. mid 90s is considered ideal in summer in CA central valley, 80s is news, and rain, we read about.

icelandelf · #6 08-19-2007, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by justabeachbrat

sorry to hear of deaths, the rough weather.

i hopefully didn't make light of bad weather, it just seemed so endless, the rain, 2001. Rain, i think we have had 1 day or 2 of it this summer. none in weeks. mid 90s is considered ideal in summer in CA central valley, 80s is news, and rain, we read about.

No, I didn't think you were making light

This is so unusual for us to have this much rain! We normally get maybe 3 or 4 days in a summer of rain and then suffer through the heat. But the ground is so saturated right now that we've had flooding in places where it doesn't ever flood. A couple of neighborhoods were evacuated day before yesterday and I felt awful for the people they had on the news--many elderly people, family members helping to retrieve photos and mementos--and their home owner's insurance doesn't cover the flood damage.

SATX*APhi · #7 02-04-2008, 06:30 PM

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For more information, please see the Frequently Asked Questions.

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I like our current LP better than these new choices. To be honest they kinda suck.

#8 05-18-2008, 04:15 PM

This thread deserves a bump.

Fort Worth is 361 times better to live than Dallas....

Discuss.

Kitso
KS 361 lab drawings of Arthropods sitting on my coffee table that I need to grade, but I want to play Madden 08 instead.

SWTXBelle · #9 05-18-2008, 04:18 PM

l may be homeless and unemployed, but by God I'm back in Texas! Yee-haw!

knight_shadow · #10 05-20-2008, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by wreckingcrew

This thread deserves a bump.

Fort Worth is 361 times better to live than Dallas....

Discuss.

Ft. Worth doesn't have as much to do as Dallas. It's a little quieter than Dallas, but I don't like having to drive 20-30 minutes to do things.

ComradesTrue · #11 05-21-2008, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by wreckingcrew

Fort Worth is 361 times better to live than Dallas....

Discuss.

Okay. I will bite.

I lived in Fort Worth for 10 years and Dallas for 7. This should qualify me as somewhat of an authority on the subject. Dallas was fun in my 20s, but, yes, Cowtown gets the nod. Much, much better city. Let me count the ways

1. No $30,000 pretend millionaires who are upside down on their BMW loan, trying to impress you with their loft, clothes, and drinks. Meanwhile... they will be paying that Visa card off for life. Mac/WSP/whoever you are today called it correctly. Dallas is full of pretentious douche-bags.

2. Far superior museums. Far superior.

3. The TCU/Colonial/Botanical Gardens/Forest Park area is much prettier than anything in Dallas.

4. Compare the downtowns. Need I say more?

5. Three Words: Joe. T. Garcia's.

6. Traveling East-West across the city is actually possible.

7. Fort Worth actually has an idenity. Dallas just has concrete.

8. Out of town guests? You have a week's worth of activities in Fort Worth. Um, in Dallas, once you have finished the JFK musuem, I guess you could show them the High Five.

9. Cops on bikes and horseback in downtown FW. Cops who are corrupt in Dallas.

10. Dallas has people who have lived there their entire lives, and who will brag that they have *never* been to Fort Worth. Bleg. Fort Worth has people who recognize the greatness of their own city, but who will venture out and explore other places.

I am sure there are more, but these come to top of mind.