Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Case's Vacation Journal: Tidbits From ATX And Cowtown
Posted 02-26-2018 at 05:09 PM by case44
Your writer has taken to the roads of Texas yet again. It never gets old. And this week of happenings is no exception. With me, you get two big things: sightseeing and good food.
Saturday, I was in Austin for a return visit, and one unique thing I saw while there was a panhandler, and it was one of the more unusual ones. It seems that, only in Austin, Texas, can you find the unusual in street-corner panhandlers. This one was a scruffy old, African-American homeless man at the intersection of Interstate 35 and U.S. Highway 183 in North Austin. I couldn't make out what his sign said, but I do remember the squeegie he was holding in his hand. That's right, a squeegie. You know, like the ones you see at the gas station when you need to scrub down your windshield. This one ranks with the clean-cut "homeless" person several years ago in South Austin who needed money for beer and fuel for his lear jet.
Perhaps I need to get back to Austin just to see the panhandlers and all their shenanigans. Might make for some memorable picture-taking.
And today was spent in Fort Worth, visiting places like Sundance Square and the historic Stockyards. Today afforded me another opportunity to sample some eats at Joe T. Garcia's Mexican Dishes. The food there was great, and they had a breathtakingly nice waitress (who was not Hispanic, unusual for a Mexican restaurant) who just happened to be blonde. Among the tasty items were the cheese enchiladas with the orange-colored gravy, two large cheese nachos with the salsa relish, good tortilla chips, terrific beef tacos with the tomatoes tucked against the meat, and wonderful guacamole. Hopefully, I'll go again and try their fajitas. In addition, they have a very simple menu and nothing on it is over 13 dollars. And the reason for the simple menu? They've got to easily be able to accommodate 1,600 patrons in one sitting.
That's right, sports fans. ... Sixteen. ... Hundred.
That's an awful lot when you combine the indoor seating with that in the huge courtyard. Joe T. Garcia's, y'all. When you get to come to Fort Worth, just check it out sometime.
Elsewhere on the Case agenda this week will be Athens tomorrow, Denison on Wednesday, Dallas on Thursday, Granbury on Friday, and Wichita Falls on Saturday.
Saturday, I was in Austin for a return visit, and one unique thing I saw while there was a panhandler, and it was one of the more unusual ones. It seems that, only in Austin, Texas, can you find the unusual in street-corner panhandlers. This one was a scruffy old, African-American homeless man at the intersection of Interstate 35 and U.S. Highway 183 in North Austin. I couldn't make out what his sign said, but I do remember the squeegie he was holding in his hand. That's right, a squeegie. You know, like the ones you see at the gas station when you need to scrub down your windshield. This one ranks with the clean-cut "homeless" person several years ago in South Austin who needed money for beer and fuel for his lear jet.
Perhaps I need to get back to Austin just to see the panhandlers and all their shenanigans. Might make for some memorable picture-taking.
And today was spent in Fort Worth, visiting places like Sundance Square and the historic Stockyards. Today afforded me another opportunity to sample some eats at Joe T. Garcia's Mexican Dishes. The food there was great, and they had a breathtakingly nice waitress (who was not Hispanic, unusual for a Mexican restaurant) who just happened to be blonde. Among the tasty items were the cheese enchiladas with the orange-colored gravy, two large cheese nachos with the salsa relish, good tortilla chips, terrific beef tacos with the tomatoes tucked against the meat, and wonderful guacamole. Hopefully, I'll go again and try their fajitas. In addition, they have a very simple menu and nothing on it is over 13 dollars. And the reason for the simple menu? They've got to easily be able to accommodate 1,600 patrons in one sitting.
That's right, sports fans. ... Sixteen. ... Hundred.
That's an awful lot when you combine the indoor seating with that in the huge courtyard. Joe T. Garcia's, y'all. When you get to come to Fort Worth, just check it out sometime.
Elsewhere on the Case agenda this week will be Athens tomorrow, Denison on Wednesday, Dallas on Thursday, Granbury on Friday, and Wichita Falls on Saturday.
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Also in Austin, they've completed the new Fairmont Hotel, all of 37 stories tall, and with an antenna on top. You don't get antennas like that one much anymore, given the tastes of today's architectural styles. Check that out if you're ever there.Posted 02-26-2018 at 05:29 PM by case44
