Posted on March 4, 2009 by Trip to the Outhouse
Today contracts were let for four new lines by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County. In addition to these lines is the fifth new line, the University Corridor Line, which is part of another contract, but is to be built during approximately the same time frame.
The almost 1.5 billion dollar deal (plus a similar [...]
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Posted on December 21, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
The thermometer says 48 degrees this morning, probably not very crisp for some of you in the more northerly climes, but a mighty big change here in H-town from the 80 degrees that my car thermometer read about 7:30 last evening.
With my green sweatpants and red jacket, I probablylooked a little like one of Santa’s [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
Sometime during my junior year in college (69-70), many of us guys sat nervously around the radio, waiting to hear what our draft number would be. I’m not sure how the Selective Service had determined the order of eligible young men to be called up for military service prior to that time, but at the [...]
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Posted on October 11, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
After all the viciousness that the McCain and Palin have been putting forth in their campaign speeches, finally, but finally, today McCain had to admit that “Obama is a decent man”, only to be booed by many of his supporters for saying that. However, what I liked about it was there was sincerity in his [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
I went to college in the middle of the Vietnam War years. Though I’d had my VW painted purple and maybe even had a peace sticker on the back window, I was hardly a hippie or a protester. Right at the time I started college, my brother had just come back from Vietnam and gotten [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
When I was working at the depots at Sylvan Grove, Luray, and Natoma, I drove back and forth every day to the folks’ farm, where I was staying for the summer, so I had no rent to pay. With only to supply my own lunches, I didn’t have much to pay out of pocket [...]
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Posted on August 16, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
In “VW Bug and a Summer Job”, I was telling about how I got my first car and about working at the Sylvan Grove Union Pacific depot for two months each summer before my junior and senior years of college. Actually, during those summers, I was on the “extra board”. I don’t know [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
I think most guys will remember each and every car that they have owned. I know I do. My first five cars were VW Beetles. I’m not quite sure why I got a VW Bug for my first car; maybe it was because it was during the 60s, and they were a [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2008 by Trip to the Outhouse
Welcome to my very first blog! You never know what I might post here . . . but then neither do I!
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