You Are Not Spending The Summer In SE Texas The temperatures for the past week have started each day above the 75° mark on the thermometer. From there they just keep climbing. Yesterday we saw a high reading of 96°. It looks like we can expect even more of the…
At the end of a long weekend of unending fun...I built a gazebo, bar-b-qued for the family, updated the software that runs my genealogy site (which managed to break it until I gave up and reinstalled it all and started all over), and all in all had a really good…
The Weather I climbed out of bed this morning to find the temperature had fallen below 70° for the first time in what seems like weeks... Who would have thought that a spring-like morning at the end of May would be reason to celebrate the day. I grabbed my first cup…
Harris County has a whorehouse for sale. Commissioners Court has on its hands the Velvet Touch, a business that operated on Highway 6 South, and will consider this morning how to dispose of it. The county came into possession of the brothel after Houston police shut it down in April…
As I usually do, I started this Saturday morning reading my email and listening to podcasts...After the daily Writer's Almanac, Saturday brings The Splendid Table. Listening today led me on a web browsing meander I wasn't expecting, but the thing I want to share is this story about wine glasses...Have…
Let's Talk Weather You know it's summer here on the Texas Coast when you step outside before sunup and the humidity settles around your shoulders like a heavy damp cloak. At daybreak the mercury has been hovering in the mid-seventies on the thermometer for most of the past few weeks. That makes…
General Muse Over the past week it has seemed as if I am neglecting the daily muse here at Coffee Muses...What with experimenting with WordPress 3.0 on a couple of test blogs (and posting about what I discover at Gary-Boyd.com). I have been trying to repost three years of photos…
I don't know about you, but I have a few. Some of them I share with my wife. The problem we always have had was trying to comfortably share the laptop screen with each other for the length of the show. And while, I have always know I could use…
One of the most interesting sounds to float in the door on this cool mornings is the call of the Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). Once you hear the loud raucous laugh of a Pileated you will never mistake it for another bird. It is another of those sounds that calls…
The heat of the day arrived at about the same time I arrived at Brazos Bend State Park just the other side of the Brazos River from us off of FM 1462 and FM 762.
For over 35 years one of the defining events of each year was the opening of the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. During much of that time, OTC was the largest tradeshow we did each year. Pre-production would begin toward the end of each year as initial contacts with clients…
The afternoon temperatures are closing in on the 90's most days here for the last week. A cool afternoon is one that just tops 80. At least the nights are cool...And that means the mornings are really nice. Only in the late afternoon when the sun moves into that area…
Just to give you an idea of the area of the state we were covering here is an image of the page in The Roads of Texas - 5th Edition map book I use to travel our state... So, now that we have visited Friendship and Bryant Station it's time…
This past week my wife expressed a desire to visit the cemeteries where ancestors are resting up around Milam County in central Texas. Since the weekend was one of the few our daughter was off (thus no need for babysitter Paw-paw), I suggested we enjoy the the last of the…
Planning Your Life My morning email brought me this... Gary, here is your schedule for: Thu Apr 22, 2010 All day Thu Apr 22 Retirement Day Gary Boyd I don't remember when I set up this calendar event in my Gmail Calendar...It must have been at least five years ago, it…
I'd spend it at the battlefield this weekend... Bugle calls and thundering cannons will fill the air Saturday at the old San Jacinto battlefield — the site where Sam Houston's army won Texas' freedom from Mexico — but this time the smoke and hubbub of war will all be in…
For most of the past decade I had picked today as my last day of employment with Freeman. Earth Day 2010...The fortieth anniversary of the defining idea of my generation and 38 years into a career at a single company. Today would have been the day I was able to…
Love it. Robin Sloan has previously discussed this type of "production as performance" video on Snarkmarket but Pomplamoose has started using the term "VideoSong": ~ via Pomplamoose covers Lady Gaga's Telephone. So began one of Jason's blog posts today...And now it's over an hour later and I have done nothing…
Some of the shots I took yesterday as I played on a roadtrip into Texas Spring... I try each year to make a day trip into the closest wildflower country to my home. The trip takes about two hours just to start seeing good fields of color. Usually, I begin…
This morning I spent some time with some friends, old and new, via YouTube... First it was my buddy, Fred First's Slideshow presentation of the images in his second book as I sipped my first cup of coffee...It went like this... What We Hold in Our Hands: images from the…
Many years ago (way back in the decadent '80's) as I began to move into middle management I discovered Tom Peter's In Search Of Excellence. I took the book to heart. I strove to make my clients experience as Excellent, with a capitol E, as I could. I think we…
Who would of thought the bean counters have gotten into what was once the territory exclusively of designers. They know are looking at the cost of ink used to print with different fonts...The next thing you know white spaces will be measured to insure the best usage of paper (or…
The past couple of weeks have found me spending more time outside with my 18 month old grandson and less time living online. Of course the weather has made it easier to be outside enjoying spring than inside adding to a blog. These spring days are rapidly feeling more and…
[ti_billboard name="Spring Day"] We took a drive around the county yesterday...Me and my Nikon. The slideshow above has some of the results...I hope you enjoy.
Crooks and Liars has a list working of what we can expect in the first year while we wait for the full bill to kick in... Here are ten benefits which come online within six months of the President's signature on the health care bill: 1. Adult children may remain…
[ti_billboard name="test"] Boy talk about killing time in a hurry...I was perusing Google Reader this morning and ran across a video from WordCamp New York (WordCamp NYC Session Video Posted « Tierra Innovation: Wordpress CMS Project)...In the presentation you had some guys from Tierra and WNET talking about the project…
And I'm on the road to being proud again...Ain't that America?
The globe recorded its sixth warmest February since record keeping began in 1880, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Climatic Data Center. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies rated February 2010 the second warmest, behind 1998. The year-to-date period, January - February, is the 5th or…
