RW> I wonder that every time I have to go down there.
 
And people complain about the cost of insurance without realizing what you
and I already know.
 
RW> I-35 N Exit 189 >__________________________________>I-35 N Entrance
RW> Frontage RD Traffic lane___vvMerge herevvvvv^^^^^____________________>
RW> Frontage RD Traffic lane_____________________________________________>
RW> T right turn only to frontage rd
RW> My Street__________________|
 
Nice drawing.  Now I understand, even though someone in the house was up at
02:30 frying bacon.  (-:
 
RW>RN> I believe it was a race to see who could get to the Lake
RW>RN> Pontchartrain Causeway first.
 
RW> Sounds similar...
 
Although people are vastly different, they seem to become a singular person
behind the wheel of a car.
 
RW> I'm used to California, where traffic on the freeway has the right of way
RW> and any merging traffic must yield to it  - and the traffic off the
RW> freeway has the right of way and exiting freeway traffic must yield to
RW> it.
 
Right, with the exception that many exits off a freeway have stop and/or
yield signs on the bottom of the ramp at the intersection.
 
RW> The former usually doesn't have a problem merging, as California freeways
RW> have clover leafs and merge lanes.
 
I'm trying to remember the highway structure during my one week stay in
Houston back in the Sixties.  Superslab just about everywhere you wanted to
go.  At the time, it rained every day and it was costing $10,000 per day,
from what I was told, to pump rain water out of the hole in the ground
where the Astrodome was being built.  That seems like an extreme amount of
money just to run some pumps.  I came back here after realizing I was out
of place there.  I did meet up with a couple of female friends while there.
 
RW> The latter allows traffic to flow on either roadway, while here, it just
RW> jams up the local traffic lanes. This is an even bigger problem in San
RW> Antonio.
 
It's about the same in New Orleans.  Not so much here because we don't have
quite the population or the culture centers that N.O. has.  I'm often
tempted to go back for a visit just to see what Katrina did to the two
houses I lived in near the lakefront, but so far have resisted the urge.
 
RW> They've just recently been made aware of that by the implementation of
RW> radar units now sitting in the parking lot next to my street entrance. My
RW> complaints didn't fall on deaf ears afterall.
 
Justice came to you after all!  (-:
 
RW> To New Braunfels? He's from Germany, she's a Texan. She went to Europe to
RW> attend college and met him there. With his help, she became a quick
RW> learner and her college language course was easy.
 
I suggested that because I've been told that there is a large German
community in New Braunfels.  I almost went there once to escort some high
school kids on a one week field trip.  The guy who took my place died a few
months after their return.
 
RW> Austin is 45 from here, SA is 25 from here. 70miles or so. At freeway
RW> speeds of 70mph, that can be less than an hour.
 
I'm just guessing, but I thought Austin would have been closer to 100 miles from S.A.
 
RW> Like me. Sometimes I just go for a ride during the day, just to see
RW> what's happening around town. Maybe take the dog and walk in the park,
RW> or next to the river.
 
I have to take my Lincoln in next week to find out about the problem I'm
having with the steering.  I looked through the owner's manual and it
states "Do not hold the steering wheel all the way over to one side or
another for more than 5 seconds as that would damage the steering assembly
(rack and pinion)."  What a piece of junk steering to put in a luxury
car!  Makes my blood boil because at times you have to hold it that long or
even longer.
 
RW> Kinda like being in the service and stationed in a remote area with no
RW> place that you can go.
 
It would be almost as bad as Adak, Alaska.  So far out in the Gulf on a rig
where you're subjected to bad weather, a dangerous work environment, being
quartered with a bunch of nut jobs who stay up till 2 or 3 in the morning
playing cards and I'm in my bunk nearly freezing becaause the sweathogs
have the thermostat as low as they can get it and then getting up to go to
work at 5am until 5pm with these same guys really kept me on my toes. 
After the third month, I told the boss I wasn't coming back and I fell
asleep on the helicopter ride back to civilization.  Got a nice job on the
riverfront after that, thanks to some friends.
 
RW> I used to with nothing to eat...then I began having stomach acid probs.
RW> These days I have a maximum two cups of coffee with my breakfast and
RW> nothing more.
 
I have four cups in the morning.  Sometimes I'll make a second pot, but
that is rare.  At least I now know why breakfast is the most important meal
of the day.
 
RW> That was a 1964 El Camino in 1976 and he was 5 or 6 years old...
 
I've been looking all over for an El Camino in good shape.  I found one
locally, but the guy won't part with it and he doesn't even use it.  It
just sits in his garage.  I may ask him again.  That would be a perfect car
for me at this stage, although I hasten to add that owning any GM product
now would leave a bad taste in my mouth and I've owned Chevys most of my
life.  What those guys are doing now is silly to me.  I haven't been able
to find a Ford Ranchero, either.
 
RW> I haven't heard that. We don't have DirecTV, we have Dishnet...not that
RW> it would make any difference if they wanted to increase the tax on sat
RW> TV.
 
My take on it is that DirecTV made some enemies in the satellite industry
where TV is concerned and someone or some entities are using their
political muscle to put the hurt on them.  I noticed some ads running
recently by Dishnetwork stating how much cheaper it would be to switch to
them at just 19.95.  The catch?  There is more than one, but that is the
rate for 6 months and they won't advertise what the rate would be after
that.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

... I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn't hear it.
--- D'Bridge 3.26