Messin’ with Texas

For 40 dollars you get lunch and a 6 hour day of horseback riding in the mountains outside of Quito, transportation included. In hindsight, I guess they were closer to high hills. It was good fun, although there was a lot of down time before and after the ride waiting for transportation. My butt wasn’t [...]

I have super busy so I have been late posting a lot of things. My life has been very hectic lately. I am going to start a series of entries here posting my videos from my trip to Ecuador in January. It was a great trip and I had a lot of fun. I will [...]

Nearly all commerce/industry in this area are either refineries or refinery support service. Other than that, everything is pretty basic. Restaurants, malls, gas stations. Nothing spectacular. Anyway here are two pictures. I work at the refinery on the left side of the road.

As many of you may know, this past Saturday I went to a gator wrestling competition. I went with the intention of spectating – what could be better than watching a bunch of rednecks get eaten up by  alligators. They were giving out free T-shirts, which is apparently a big deal around here. Devin and [...]

This video was circulating around at work. I received it from someone who believes in the clear message of this video. Is anyone else bothered by this?

Just over a week ago, I went to Chicago to play diplomacy ( If you don’t know what diplomacy is at this point, you have not been reading enough. Look it up yourself). Is a great event. It was well run, a good venue, and a decent field of players. Although I did not do [...]

This picture, was taken in the Houston Hobby airport. It is in some random corridor in one of the terminals, near the bathrooms. When I saw this, I immediately imagined many different sizes of people all drinking at the same time. I think the heights of the water fountains are an artistic choice, but perhaps [...]

Lately I’ve been having dinner parties at my apartment about every other week. I haven’t felt much like going to Houston and so when I have time on weekends I’ve taken to cooking things, and hosting people. At home growing up in New York, my parents hosted people often, and my friends came over often; [...]

here in Texas, I live in Beaumont but I work in Port Arthur. Port Arthur is generally a rundown area. It hasn’t quite recovered from the hurricane damage and has fallen into further disrepair. Two weeks ago I took my first trip  through port Arthur and took a few pictures. I thought I would share [...]

over the past few months I’ve been making an effort to get a diplomacy group started in Houston. I had some help from the players that were already here and I managed to bring in some new players on my own. We have played twice now and are looking to get a third game sometime [...]