> The wife and I flew out of Newark Int'l Airport to Houston Intercontinental Airport (which has been renamed "George Bush Intercontinental Airport", but just as I still refer to "3Com Park" as "Candlestick Park", I'll still refer to IAH as Houston Intercontinental Airport).
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Candlestick Park IS Candlestick Park to anyone who lived in the area before the name was changed, I'll tell you that. Although I think I'll be obliged to use the new name for the San Jose Arena (now called Compaq Center) seeing as my dad works for them and that gets us nice seats.

> We arrived at Newark early, about an hour and a half early, and arrived at the last monorail stop where we heard that there are delays on the monorail.
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I love those little monorail thingies. Being so well traveled, I even have FAVORITE monorail thingies in airports (the #1 coolest one being the one in the Orlando airport, because it docks in these neon tube-y sci-fi looking things). For some reason, I loved the little train thingie that goes underneath the Capitol building in DC. It makes noises like a music box, I swear it does. And I just went off on such a tangent.

> We were back in the cattle car section and for lunch, they served a round chickenesque thing on a bun. I didn't think it was actual meat until the wife found a bone in hers.
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Ah, the joys of airline food... O_o

> Even in the areas here where you can see for miles in a direction, everything seems so confined. Texas is open.
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For some reason, the open-ness of Texas feels weird to me. I'm used to living in a place that is gently cupped by hills and small mountains, and being anywhere too open like that just seems too exposed. I like my valleys and mountains. :)

> About ten years ago, a big stink was raised when a company opened up University Towers. Now there are at least ten non-campus affiliated "private dorms". The campus life without living on campus.
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That same kind of stink is being raised at my school now. But they NEED new dorms, so there... the more major issue is the idea of corporate/education buildings, with the bottom floors of a high-rise being for the school and the top floors being leased out. Similar, in a way.

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