Well, it’s 90 degrees outside today, but it’s actually quite nice! If the humidity would stay this low all summer, then I wouldn’t be so nervous about living here … but I know it won’t stay like this for long!
The apartment is coming along. Both bathrooms, the kitchen, the master bedroom and the living room are done. All I have left is the office, and all the CDs/DVDs/books that are in boxes in the dining room. The garage is halfway there. It’s neat and I’m able to pull the truck in, but it’s not arranged the way I want it yet.
I’ve been out and about a bit, so I can share with you a few observations about Irving:
The good: This is the opposite of Boston with respect to Wendy’s. In Boston, there were only 2 Wendy’s around, and they were both far away from my house. Here, there’s one on every corner! There are 4 of them within 5 miles of my house. I’m not kidding!
And, guys everywhere (the cablemodem guy, the guy at CD Warehouse, a random dude at Chick-fil-a) told me “well, you’ll like what the heat does to women’s clothing!” … they were right. I’ve seen the shortest shorts and smallest tops just wandering around stores and fast food joints. I think I’ll like that part.
The bad: Irving is a dry city! I have to drive into Dallas to get beer. So, that means the home of arguably the most drug abusing professional football team (yes, I mean the Cowboys) doesn’t allow beer to be sold retail. What the hell is that? It’s only a problem when I have guests or headed to a party or something, but it still sucks!
The ugly: There are churches, Icthus fish on backs of cars, and religous trinket stores everywhere. Welcome to the bible belt. I’m pretty sure I saw one community that had a stone gate all the way around it, and just inside the single entrance to the community was a chuch. I’m going to go back to confirm that’s what I saw, but if that’s real, it’s just damn creepy. Of all the Icthus fish I saw, only one was the cool “Darwin” one that I’ve thought about getting
Oh, I want to say “hi” to Snack, webmaster of BrokenPurpleCrayon.com, which hosts the “Texas weird laws” page I linked to below. She found out pretty quickly that I had linked to her and dropped me a note welcoming me to Texas.
