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11 Sep

2006

Ten years of Midtown

≡ 7:21 am ≡ apartment houston midtown urban

The front page of the Chronicle (online) today is a story about developers in Midtown and how the rules of the TIRZ make it complicated to build in the area. This gives me an opportunity to repost something that has now expired from Google’s cache: A Houston Business Journal article from 1995 (one year before their online archives begin) describing some of these very early developers: Redevelopers launching first Midtown project, Houston Business Journal, June 2, 1995.

Further reading: houstonmidtown.com; Wikipedia: Midtown, Houston (whose map puts us just over the line into the 3rd Ward); HBJ articles about Midtown (since 1996); the cover story of Governing magazine earlier this year (via).

17 Jul

2006

Brenda

≡ 3:13 pm ≡ apartment cats neighbors

You may have noticed that we had a cute kitten living in our parking area.

Well, no more. She’s moved in with our cool neighbors!

08 Feb

2006

Outage.

≡ 10:41 am ≡ apartment houston rice

(This one took us down here at home, too.)

To: Rice University Community From: Facilities Engineering and Planning Subject: Campus Power Outage Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2006 Early this morning, the Rice Campus lost power for approximately 2 hours due to a Centerpoint transformer failure. The emergency generator back-up systems throughout the campus operated properly. Power was restored to campus at 4:15am. Campus infrastructure and building systems have been and will be brought on-line and rechecked throughout the morning.

04 Feb

2006

Apartment security.

≡ 1:16 am ≡ apartment batman comix houston my sketchbook

True tales of apartment living: Erin and I discuss our security situation.

(continued…)

01 Nov

2005

Heater, again.

≡ 10:47 pm ≡ apartment hate

Ugh. It’s 82° in our apartment, because the heater’s relay has stuck again. That’s thirty degrees warmer than the air outside.

17 Sep

2005

84°

≡ 10:57 pm ≡ apartment life

Ugh. Here we go again. This time, the A/C is working, but the heater is also on, fighting with it. Update 9/18: 87°! [Previously: 1 2 3.]

11 Apr

2003

Hello, from a totally empty apartment.

≡ 4:57 pm ≡ apartment cats houston2003 moving sanmateo

Hello, from a totally empty apartment.

Well, not totally. But only very small pockets of resistance stand in the way. Soon every last scrap of my life in this apartment will be gone.

The cats don’t much like it, either. They patrol from room to room, wondering where everything went—and why.

I’m cleaning the rest of the food out of the fridge, and for some reason it’s very sad. Maybe it’s just that everything is very sad today, but there’s something that’s getting to me about throwing away mostly-full jars of salsa and unused packets of Carnation Instant Breakfast.

And I hate when things are over / There’s so much left undone.

dsandler.org

Tag: apartment

Ten years of Midtown

≡ 7:21 am ≡ apartment houston midtown urban

Brenda

≡ 3:13 pm ≡ apartment cats neighbors

Outage.

≡ 10:41 am ≡ apartment houston rice

Apartment security.

≡ 1:16 am ≡ apartment batman comix houston my sketchbook

Heater, again.

≡ 10:47 pm ≡ apartment hate

84°

≡ 10:57 pm ≡ apartment life

Hello, from a totally empty apartment.

≡ 4:57 pm ≡ apartment cats houston2003 moving sanmateo

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