Crash Test Dummy

Spent Memorial Day lugging furniture in Fort Worth. Actually, spent Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday moving. On Memorial Day we rested. If I learned anything over the weekend, it's never to attempt moving the contents of a two bedroom house with only one guy and two petite girls. I feel like my body was used for crash testing and we were racing to get the U-Haul emptied in time to meet the 1:30 p.m. deadline. Plus it rained. Plus the U-Haul we rented had a trailer attached, which added its own set of fun circumstances - you know, hitches popping off, tight corners, detours, near collisions, etc.



Wish I were here: My brother and his wife spent a few days in Playa Del Carmen to celebrate a combined anniversary, birthday, medical school graduation and architectural certification. I'm trying not to be too jealous. Especially since it's been cold and rainy for Lubbock in May.


I do, however, forget how pretty Fort Worth is until I see it again. It has such a great feel as far as being a combination between a big city and small town. The streets are wide and green and it just has a nice relaxed vibe to it.

While I was there, I found myself almost unwillingly doing homework (confirming how conditioned I am by my job). While we were in Fort Worth, I did a completely unscientific survey as we were driving and, in the heart of TCU country (the house we were moving the furniture into is only about three blocks from campus), counted three Double T vehicle stickers and one address marker on a curb. That's more stickers than I saw for UT and A&M combined. Good to see that Texas Tech seems to have a solid presence there.

Oh, and I spent some time poking around the TCU campus. When I was graduating high school, I was a hardcore TCU fan and couldn't wait to go there. I spent a great weekend in the then-football dorms and came home burdened with T-shirts, caps and ambitions of being a Horned Frog. Through my own fault, however, that wound up falling through (didn't fill out some of my paperwork correctly so I couldn't get registered, etc.) and wound up in Lubbock. I hadn't been back on the TCU campus since. It is the same beautiful campus I remembered, with some amazing buildings, but it is always striking to me how used to having a pedestrian campus I've become here at Texas Tech. It was disconcerting to see major streets cutting between buildings. Still didn't get a chance to eat at Fuzzy's Taco Shop. Oh well, maybe next time...