CUAgain

So, y’all remember “Calvin and Hobbes“? I hope so. A boy and his stuffed tiger have all sorts of adventures and mischief. The tiger (Hobbes) is alive and can talk to Calvin when they are together and nobody else is around…and stuffed and immobile when other people are present.
Yeah yeah…a metaphor for imagination. Or [...]

I sent this to the entire Haltom City Council, the Mayor, and the City Managers:
Regarding this story.
Simplified…
The folks were washed out.
They hired a contracter to cleanup, who took the money and ran.
The city says, “Clean it or we fine you.”
They say, “We can’t. Help?”
Assistant City Manager Chuck Barnett essentially says, and I admit, politely at [...]

Motorcyclist killed
That was likely seconds behind me…there were not many bikes out last night…and I passed one Northbound about 2 miles back from that exit…just before 2am…
I likely waved to this man…
Y’all be safe!
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

I think I could use a tailgunner. Folks last night were apparently practicing for the drive home after their New Years parties.
Practicing, as in, most were drunk or otherwise imparied.
Yep, I head home from work around 2:00am each night…we call that “drunk o’clock” or “drunk-thirty”. The hours between 2:00am and 4:00am are the [...]

Ya gotta wonder…what idiot approved this? What department head, design committee and enginnering department all said, “Yeah, this is a good idea, I approve.”
Picture this…you stumble on a crime in progress, back away around a quiet corner, and pull out your cell phone.
Then you make a fatal mistake…you dial 911. Seems our wonderful FCC decided [...]

Jheeezzz I spent a lot of money today. Well, okay, tomorrow, technically, when they come to do all the work.
Seriously. $11,000. Just like that. Gad.
The house needs a new AC/Heat system ya see. Our house was built in 1982…that makes the air-handler 25 years old. The outside unit (compressor) was replaced with a cheap-Chinese-crap thing [...]

In about three hours, I’ll step outside and do a most dangerous thing…
The commute home. Friday and Saturday nights, the drunk to crazy ratio is about even…and the sober drivers are outnumbered by the crazy ones by about 20 to 1.
I have to carefully watch my mirrors on the highway…I’ve dodged VERY fast cars coming [...]

I’m working nights again…covering for co-workers.
I actually like nights. I can lean back, crank up the tunes, and actually get stuff done. There are interruptions to my project work…lots and lots of them…but those interruptions are all about doing what we do best…producing news content and getting it to press.
The calls I get [...]

That’s a quote, by the way, from BugzyMaccode, a good friend of mine.
Nothing says “security” like glass and magnets.
I work in downtown Dallas…a part that becomes a “no man’s land” after dark.
Our building security, since it is part of corporate instead of our operating unit, in a orgasmic fit of cost savings and bean-counter [...]

Texas has made it official. “Equal protection under the law” is out the window.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got no problem with whacking on drunk drivers a bit, frankly I think we ought to just have a “drunk driver season” and issue bazookas…
What I have a problem with is official state policy and precedent now [...]