Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I’m not an old man. In fact, I am a millennial.But, in a sequence of events many of us experience, I have been getting older. This week, I turn 40.Getting older is tough for a lot of people, but one associate makes a strong point.”Sure beats the alternative,” he explains.Even though…
Listen, society, we’ve been through a lot. Even outside of Texas legislators on the lam, COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than doubled in the past month, crime has been trending up in Dallas and other cities, the Moops caused a stand-off on a highway in Massachusetts, and crews have been clearing the site of the condo collapse in…
A couple days ago, a Facebook memory popped up in my feed. I had posted a press release sent by Texas DPS in July of 2013. DPS was notifying people of bag inspections before you could walk into the Texas Capitol:During these inspections, DPS officers have thus far discovered one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to…
Define irony: At the job where I’ve started questioning my future, I’ve now had two separate incidents in which I’ve had a health issue entirely connected to work. I’m still not convinced the first one happened, but I had another li’l situation this week.I was covering the ceremony to mark the fifth anniversary of…
If you’re thinking this pandemic was just cooked up in a darkened room by my opponents in the celebrity hot dog eating contest in Fort Worth each Independence Day, you might be right.For the second straight year, Curly’s Frozen Custard has canceled its Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating contest. In a tragedy of sadness, their public…
Have I ever told you I used to live in Oregon? The saga started out in SuperOregon. Then I moved on to the big city, living in Portland about three years. Fun fact about both Standard and SuperOregon: They sometimes get hot in the summer.But not this hot.During my first summer, when we’d read the weather report…
One Scaiaholic tweets incessantly about hashtag: transit alternatives. I’m sure he’s a thorn in the side of the T, but listen, I’m sure I’m a thorn in their side, too, because I still call them, “The T.”In my defense, “Trinity Metro” does contain three Ts, and calling them the T reminds me of the family…