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Review: Spookers Terror Dome

Spookers Terror Dome 16020 East Freeway (I-10) Channelview, TX 281.860.9800 In Houston, Texas, this year, there is a new haunted attraction that's stolen the dripping, bloody hearts of the local critics. The Houston Chronicle has billed Spookers Terror Dome as the “Scariest Haunted House in Houston.” In its first year of operation, the Terror ...

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October 30, 2008

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Juuuuust A Bit Outside*

*Bob Uecker in Major League It's bloody cold outside already. I knew it was going to be an early winter, and I suspect we'll have snow again this year. Three years ago we had a white Christmas... first one ever, I think. We rarely even get flurries, and that Christmas Eve ...

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October 29, 2008

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Talk About Out On A Limb…

The other day I wrote the post "Memory Lane is Nowhere Road," a random ramble about places I used to live and people I used to know. When I was 18, I met the San Antonio-based band Heyoka and followed them closely (if not always literally) for several years, whenever ...

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October 28, 2008

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Survey Says!

Ganked from another blog, just for the hell of it. A. Attached or single? Attached! B. Best friend? Tracey C. Cake or pie? Mmmmmmm piiiiieeeee. But cake is good too. D. Day of choice? I don't have a preference. E. Essential item? Computer with internet access. Duh. F. Favorite color? Green, but I like other ...

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October 26, 2008

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Something Weird

For several months, I've been seeing far more than the usual number of shadowy movements seen from the corner of my eye. They are growing in realism and frequency, and in the past two days I've seen at least a dozen out of the corner of my left eye (none ...

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October 26, 2008

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Memory Lane is Nowhere Road

When I was 25, I moved to Athens, Georgia. I'd visited twice, and loved it, so I just up and moved there, as I was prone to do back then when I had nothing to tie me down. The year was 1986, and it was a hot spot of new ...

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October 26, 2008

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18-Month Retrospective is at Core of Personal Philosophy, part 2

Part one is here. Trust in your calling, make sure your calling's true Think of others, the others think of you Silly rule! Golden words make practice, practice makes perfect, Perfect is a fault, and fault lines change I believe my humor's wearing thin And change is what I believe in ...

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October 25, 2008

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Tradition Demands It

I post this photo every Halloween. I'm working on Part 2 of my retrospective. Stay tuned.

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October 25, 2008

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We Shall Return After This PSA

This is my favorite song. I'm looking at you through the glass Don't know how much time has passed Oh God it feels like forever But no one ever tells you that forever feels like home Sitting all alone inside your head How do you feel, that is the question But I forget, you don't expect ...

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October 24, 2008

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18-Month Retrospective is at Core of Personal Philosophy, part 1

October 20 has earned a place in my personal Dates to Remember calendar. Age has this effect: Over time, you start filling the calendar with dates that changed your life until it starts to look like a travel map, gradually changing from empty "places to go" to brightly colored "been ...

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October 22, 2008

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A Rare But Nifty Quiz Post

This is an unusual quiz, and I enjoyed just looking at the art, plus I surprised myself with how little I cared for traditional pieces, gravitating toward abstract and cubist art. Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test... Non-conformist, Visionary, and Independent 23 Abstract, -16 Islamic, ...

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October 21, 2008

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Bird Stories

One of my Quaker Parrots, Kiwi, said her first words a week or so ago. I was covering their cage for the night with a large sheet which has a softball-sized hole in it. They like to peek out of the hole when saying goodnight. I put the sheet on ...

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October 19, 2008

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Rending the Veil Urgently Needs Tech Help

Rending the Veil is in urgent and immediate need of webmaster help to facilitate the server move. I have no frigging idea how to set up or tweak this Simple Machines Forum (SMF) that my current advisor has installed as our content management system (CMS). It's asking for an upgrade ...

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October 17, 2008

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Review: A Frightful Experience is Nice This Time of Year

Upon taking Kara to the dentist, we were informed that she needs a root canal and that there was time to do it today. I expected the root canal, but not the expediency. She's there now, though not particularly thrilled. I'll go back in a couple of hours to pick ...

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October 16, 2008

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We’re Baa-aack

Site went down sometime yesterday or the previous night. I contacted my craptastic, slower-than-snail-snot webhost, who didn't get back to me with the solution til this morning. Evidently, my account was due and they used an old email address to contact me rather than using the address I keep updated ...

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October 16, 2008

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No More Politics

While it's known that I'm liberal and will be voting to reflect that, I have deleted several political posts made in recent weeks, including the video I posted of what occurred after the recent Presidential debate. Politics had taken over this blog, and while it's a topical, er, topic, it's ...

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October 14, 2008

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Quick and Personal

For anyone looking for me for either RTV stuff or Yahoo IM, I've been offline almost constantly since finally returning home from evacuation on September 21. First, the cable (internet) was out til I think the 3rd of October. Since then, I've been alternately extremely busy, extremely depressed, or feeling ...

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October 12, 2008

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For My Archives: Comments from LiveJournal Syndicated Acct.

The "meridjetfeed" account at LiveJournal has received a few comments, which I often don't remember to check since this journal includes a reminder that comments on that account don't show up here, nor are they emailed to me. But there are a few, and I responded to them today. They'll ...

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October 8, 2008

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A Poem, Via A Friend

Sara posted this on LJ, having found it in yet another person's journal. It's intense... I googled it. It's called "Lakeshore." The lake is sharp along the shore Trimming the bevelled edge of land To level curves; the fretted sands Go slanting down through liquid air Till stones below shift here and there Floating upon their ...

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October 8, 2008

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Life Goes On, In Spite of Preferences

I've been really depressed off and on lately, though I'm not really sure if it's chemical or issue-based. The sort of acute heartache I feel now would usually indicate that Meridjet is stimulating my subconscious with regard to work needing to be done. However, he's been relatively inactive for the ...

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October 7, 2008

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An Open Letter to All Concerned

I'm crossposting this to relevant places (and email) to reduce my catch-up time. I bet some of you are wondering where I disappeared to for so long. I live on Trinity Bay just east of Houston, about a mile from the mouth of the Houston Ship Channel. Hurricane Ike forced ...

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October 1, 2008

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