Author Archives: conrad reynolds

Opportunity Calls

Posted on 19 April 2017 by conrad reynolds

Like a lot of people, we have one of those home phones that announces the caller id when the phone rings.  Like a lot of people, we get robocalls. “CANCER! SOCK!” “POLICE! BENIFF!” “UNASSIGNED!” “ZERO!” and so on. Today the … Continue reading →

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Rocket Park

Posted on 18 April 2017 by conrad reynolds

  You go to Houston, you have to visit NASA.  I hadn’t been in many years, certainly not since they upgraded the visitor center (read: now you have to pay).  There are more exhibits now, and an awful lot of … Continue reading →

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Tradition

Posted on 17 April 2017 by conrad reynolds

For lunch today I got together with some old friends that I had worked with for many years.  We met at Rooster’s, an oil-refinery-worker-friendly joint.   A number of us had regularly eaten lunch at Rooster’s in Baytown since the … Continue reading →

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The Birthplace of Texas

Posted on 15 April 2017 by conrad reynolds

Saturday morning we got up and watched the live birth of the giraffe on the internet.  “What kind of giraffe is that?” CVH asked me.  “I think it’s a Rothschild’s”.  CVH found it very exciting to watch. After the big … Continue reading →

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The Best Part of Texas

Posted on 14 April 2017 by conrad reynolds

The Best Part of Texas is that you can get Blue Bell there again, which is still not available in Louisville. We flew down to Houston today on United (aka Republic) Airlines.  I got a seat with a lot of … Continue reading →

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And Get Off My Lawn!

Posted on 2 April 2017 by conrad reynolds

Springtime, and I go to the store to get a new air filter and spark plug for the old lawnmower.  As I’m heading out to the shed, CVH asks what I’m doing. “I need to gap the new spark plug … Continue reading →

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You’ve got to be kidding

Posted on 1 April 2017 by conrad reynolds

Today I noticed that my dental floss has an expiration date stamped on the package.  I mean, really – if a Twinkie can last thirty years, why can’t my floss last two?

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All Things Are Temporary

Posted on 24 March 2017 by conrad reynolds

And vacations must come to an end.  Today is our last day in Chicago (unless we decide to chuck it all and stay here). After a bitterly cold Wednesday (even the local weather forecaster termed it “unseasonably cold”), today it’s … Continue reading →

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A Wrinkle in Time

Posted on 23 March 2017 by conrad reynolds

This evening we went to a staging of L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.  (I wanted to see American Idiot, but got outvoted by CVH.) You read the book when you were a kid.  You are thinking that it would be … Continue reading →

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Windy City Café Pancake Burger

Posted on 23 March 2017 by conrad reynolds

Around the corner from the Intuit Gallery is the Windy City Café.  I had one of their house specials, the Pancake Burger: a burger served with a fried egg between two pancakes.  It works much better than it sounds, and … Continue reading →

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