At least you drove through the heart of God's country--Santa Anna, Bangs, Brownwood--that's where my parents grew up and yes, we have eaten at Underwood's many times. Cherry Cobbler!! yum yum

Glad you got there safely :)

My guess? They were in deteriorating neighborhoods even then - but it's amazing the blindness that comes from being young and broke. :) (Well, I assume you were broke - married students generally are. But if that's incorrect, I apologize.) We drove past the apartment we lived in when we were first married (Tim's last year of college) and were kind of amazed that 1) we'd ever thought it was a good place to live and 2) that I'd been perfectly comfortable wandering around on my own after dark there. Maybe we should add "foolish" to the young and broke idea, just to cover the bases. ;)

Have fun getting all the back-to-school details straightened out!

I've had to make a couple of trips between Central and West Texas in the past month, and both times got swamped by rain -- the first time while visiting my dad's grave site west of Waco (the AP helpfully told me the next day the same storm had washed out the road to the Bush ranch) and last Tuesday coming back from Austin, when it let loose over a 70-mile stretch between Mason and Sonora. Nothing like driving down U.S. 277 with 100-foot visibility with a guy on your bumper itching to do 70 mph, and I later did see a Camero that had likely been trying to maintain the 80 mph speed limit westbound on I-10 who spun out and ended up blocking the left lane on the east side of the highway.

How nostalgic! Maybe YLB can pick up a large bag of onions from her former employer and get creative for some meals when you get back just for old times sake!

You are obviously too old if a 400 mile trip wears you out, Eric! I'm glad I'm so much younger, since we're off to Waco this weekend for a wedding. And, speaking of rain, our roof in Georgetown is still leaking - so it may still be on its foundation, but wet inside.
Hope all goes well today w/your nephew

you know, of course, that you can use your airport card in your mac to send out a wireless signal that you are using if it is plugged into an ethernet port, and share that connection. :-)

Jen, unfortunately, no cobbler for us. Bummer.

Thanks, Rach.

Beth, we didn't have any money, but we weren't poor – if that makes any sense. I do think our perceptions of "good" and "bad" neighborhoods were different back then.

John, the other driver is always the scariest thing on the highway.

Phyllis, we looked for the building, and decided it had been torn down since she was there. Or, we just couldn't remember where to look!

Toni, I'll freely admit it: I'm TOO OLD! (So sorry to hear that Georgetown Manor is still dripping.)

Kyle, I did know that, and I have created a network, but we're having trouble with the other computer making the connection. It's able to join the network, but no data is going back and forth. It's a windoze computer, of course, so expectations weren't high to begin with.

Howdy,

The two-day conference is a pleasure, huh? Some really nice folks on the campus - both students and faculty. I'll be headed down thata way in 3 weeks to move my Aggie back into his apartment.

Gig 'Em

Les, we're actually down here for an initial advisor session. His new student orientation is in a couple of weeks, so we'll be heading back this way before we can catch our breath.

But, you're right – couldn't have asked for nicer folks to deal with.

Are y'all rained in down there? You might be up here, if you've not yet returned!

Janie, we came home Tuesday. I've just been trying to get caught up on stuff.

And we got 4" of rain last night at our house!

Welcome home, Eric!