A moment, please...

Web Guy with a Napoleonic complex
(and sporting a Mickey Mouse watch)

Gentle reader, I may need a moment here...  I have had my heart laid bare and stomped upon.  Yes, I am more than a little distraught right now...

You see... I did not make the list of Houston's Most Eligible (and hottest) Bachelors (sniff).

Perhaps it is my age that keeps me off the list.  I am pushing 50 you know.  Or maybe it is my position as an administrator at the University of Houston that dulls the senses of the judges.  Who knows...

But it is precisely this type of thing that is fantastic about living in the fourth largest city in the United States.  An online magazine like Culture Map that gives us all of the society news.  Galas, fundraisers, and eligible bachelor lists.  It is something that I genuinely look forward to receiving in my email and reading every morning.  Plus they have the best calendar of events site in the city.

Then there is a fantastic magazine called Houstonia Magazine which I subscribe to and look forward to monthly.  It has all the information about the places here in the Bayou City.  Neighborhoods, bars, restaurants, and the like; it is the quintessential reference point.

So while I will sit here in my dark office and shed a few tears over my obvious bachelor snubbing, I shall persevere and continue to thoroughly enjoy life.  After all, The Addams Family stage show is starting tonight at Miller Outdoor.

An apartment hunt...

This past weekend was all about the hunt to end homelessness... specifically my own.  My lease expires on my current place at the end of November, the proposed raise in my rent has spurred me to move on and in my usual fashion I put off finding a new place until panic starts to set in...

Well, this weekend was when the panic set in so off I went...

There are so many levels of apartment living in Houston and to be quite frank, I love the area that I live.  My current abode is on Westheimer Road past the Galleria and as I have stated before, it is basically a five mile long strip mall just full of restaurants and shops.  But being a good steward and in good faith, I broadened my horizons.  I looked at apartments a couple of streets over as well as the ones on Westheimer.

Anyway, I found a place that is much cheaper than the current one I am inhabiting which probably means that I am about to enter a housing unit that is full of thugs, bugs and nightly police raids (I read the Yelp reviews...).

Oh well, it will give me something to blog about.  Cheers!

Culturally refreshed...

Weekends here in Houston are just something to behold.  As I am sure there are in Chicago, Los Angeles, or (gulp) New York activities are plentiful on the weekends.  BUT, I would challenge them to a certain distinction.  I would challenge them to the number of times that the "big guns" of the cultural landscape come out and give fantastic performances for the public... and oh yeah... for free.

Saturday started off wonderfully with the Bayou City Art Fair.  This HUGE art fair brings artists from all over the country to display pieces from almost every medium.  The spring version is held at Memorial Park and the fall version is held downtown.  There is nothing quite like walking around for three hours enjoying some fantastic creations.

Then in the evening hearing the wonderful musicianship of the Houston Symphony at Miller Outdoor Auditorium.  It was the annual Lunada concert celebrating Latin American composers.  The music just floated wonderfully and allowed a person to just drift away.  Hokey..?  Sure.  But that is about the best way I can describe it.  This was the Symphony's fourth (at least) free concert of the year for the public.  When you combine that with the Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, and the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company all giving free performances at Miller...

Well, it just doesn't get much better than that.