With last Sunday's 3-1 win over the Atlanta Braves, the Houston Astros closed the door on their 2008 campaign.Given the fact that I was in Dubai for much of the period between April and August, I honestly did not follow the Astros as closely as I normally do. So I really don't have anything too insightful to say about the team other than the fact that, while they certainly struggled at times,
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Electrification at last!
Posted on 8:01 PM by jackline
Electricity was restored to our house shortly after noon on Saturday September 27, roughly two weeks and twelve hours after Hurricane Ike took us off-line.Cable and internet service still has not been restored, however. I'm currently writing from my hotel in Plano, where I am spending the week on business.
Friday, September 26, 2008
I told you I wasn't sold on USC
Posted on 12:51 PM by jackline
Back in August, I wrote:But this is also the same Southern Cal program that, over the last couple of seasons, has developed an uncanny knack for losing games it shouldn't; see Oregon State and UCLA and 2006 and Stanford (!) last season. Will Pete Carroll's team get tripped up by an inferior opponent again this year?Now we know the answer. Although I wasn't expecting it to happen this early in the
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The no-electricity blues
Posted on 6:48 PM by jackline
We are now on our twelfth day without electricity.Originally, Centerpoint said that 80% of my ZIP Code would have power by Monday the 22nd. Monday has come and gone. Now they're saying Friday. Maybe.What makes it even more frustrating is that crews were working around our neighborhood early last week when they were bringing the housing complexes adjacent to the University of Houston back online.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Houston 25, Colorado State 28
Posted on 12:30 PM by jackline
Yesterday my brother and a couple of friends drove up from Denver to Fort Collins to witness another heartbreakingly-close loss for the Cougars. The Cougars had rallied back from a 17-point halftime deficit and, with eight seconds left, were in position to send the game into overtime with a field goal. However, the Coogs decided to take a shot into the endzone before sending out the field goal
Keeping cool
Posted on 12:27 PM by jackline
It's been over a week since Hurricane Ike, and power still has not been returned to my house.I guess this is one way to seek relief from the heat until the power comes back on...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Ike, Part Five
Posted on 1:01 PM by jackline
It's been almost six full days since the storm hit. We're still without power, and Centerpoint is now saying that our zip code won't be back online until sometime next week. Lori's dad brought us a generator, and we've been using it to run the refrigerator and some fans, but our whiny neighbor who lives behind us complains when we run it after 10 pm. There's nothing for me to do at my work right
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