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.

If you want fresh eggs...

I am absolutely tickled about an event this weekend.  On Saturday afternoon there is a lecture at the Wabash Antiques and Feed entitled "Introduction to Chickens by John Berry".  Admission is free.  How marvelous is that?

Living in the fourth largest city in the United States and there is a lecture on how to raise chickens.  I am definitely going to it.  I just have this image in my head of sitting on the stoop of my apartment complex with 7 or eight chickens clucking about my feet.

But it is essentially this type of thing that makes this a wonderful place to be.  In the midst of 100 degree temperatures, the wonderful Houstonia Magazine tweets out a recipe for cool shrimp ravigote (a cold shrimp salad) and Houston Culture map posts about a chicken lecture.

...wonder if I should wear my boots and overalls..?