Ugh
I realize that it's almost noon, but I'm not sleeping well, and didn't go to sleep last night until about 5am, so I'm still really tired. The neighbors across our back fence are doing yard work. Sounds like a leaf-blower. Lots of revving up and revving back down in that pattern that sounds like the Doppler effect. I'd really like to get more sleep. I also have a migraine, and the annoying buzzing is not making it any better. That's one problem with living in a house - you never know when your neighbors are going to do loud yard work. At least with an apartment, you know which day they're going to come and mow the grass.
It was weird driving around the medical center yesterday. There was leaf detritus everywhere. Work crews were out raking and cutting down broken limbs. Rice's campus looked dirty...and that's something you can never say about that campus. It's always pristine. Almost every glass-faced building had some plywood in at least one window. There's a really huge building in the Galleria (named after the mall) area that has a giant searchlight that rotates making it look like a really tall lighthouse or an airport tower. The spotlight can be seen for many miles depending on the weather conditions. The searchlight is now off, and there are panes of glass broken out on the facade. It's really eerie.
Houston doesn't really look like itself right now. Things are broken everywhere - lots of billboards down, crap on the roads, sturdy business signs are mangled, glass missing from buildings (one even had the mangled mini-blinds still visible), etc. It's surreal. I wonder how long it'll take to get everything back to a semblance of normal.
It was weird driving around the medical center yesterday. There was leaf detritus everywhere. Work crews were out raking and cutting down broken limbs. Rice's campus looked dirty...and that's something you can never say about that campus. It's always pristine. Almost every glass-faced building had some plywood in at least one window. There's a really huge building in the Galleria (named after the mall) area that has a giant searchlight that rotates making it look like a really tall lighthouse or an airport tower. The spotlight can be seen for many miles depending on the weather conditions. The searchlight is now off, and there are panes of glass broken out on the facade. It's really eerie.
Houston doesn't really look like itself right now. Things are broken everywhere - lots of billboards down, crap on the roads, sturdy business signs are mangled, glass missing from buildings (one even had the mangled mini-blinds still visible), etc. It's surreal. I wonder how long it'll take to get everything back to a semblance of normal.