Moving

We are moving.  We live in Texas.  My wife works in a small Texas town.  The commute is driving her crazy.  Plus maybe moving will be a good thing for me.  Will it be good for my wife and children?  Yes, the only negative would be that one of my children will go to a different school.  Therefore we will try and do the move during the summer break.

I'm looking at the move as a good thing, fresh start and all that jazz.  The only thing is that we live right between Dallas and Fort Worth.  The population for those two cities is a little under two million.  About 684 square miles for the two.  The town we want to move to is eight square miles and about 14,950 for the population.  Say it again, EIGHT SQUARE MILES AND A POPULATION OF UNDER 15,000.  My graduating class in high school was almost a thousand people, the school itself for the three grades was about three thousand kids.  I think we had five high schools at the time, I have no clue how many we have now.  I'm a city boy, if I see a dog without a collar I think it's a wild animal.  If there are two dogs then it's a pack of wild dogs.  If I see a hawk or falcon whilst driving through the country I think it's neat.  I'M A CITY BOY.  This new town doesn't have much in the way of livestock (anymore) but they have some.  They have a newspaper and I think it has only one reporter.  EIGHT SQUARE MILES AND A POPULATION OF UNDER 15 GRAND.

I'm thinking a fresh start will be good for all of us, maybe my writing can really take off.  I would like to make a living by putting my random scribblings onto paper, but I would also be really happy with just writing more.  I was actually thinking about starting this blog when we moved but then I thought that I just needed to bite the bullet and do it.

I used to want to be in politics but I worked in topless bars for eleven years and our city council is a bit conservative, prudish might be a better phrase.  I'm willing to bet that this new town is just as conservative but they were never called a "yacht club without a yacht" by Texas Monthly magazine.  Maybe I could run for city council or one of the other offices in the city.

There are some franchises I was looking at that I wouldn't mind starting up.  Since my background is bars I know I can rock a topless bar but a:  I don't want to get back into that business and b:  I don't know if this new town even has a bar, much less a topless bar (I saw a HUGE tanning salon today, pointless for me since I'm not a fake baker).  Since my wife is a cop there I could ask her but it'll be more fun to drive around and point at stuff and ask about it.

Whenever I go out to restaurants in this new town (and the surrounding area) I plan on doing a review of them.  My sister doesn't like going to restaurants with me because I'm so critical.  She even mentioned that she doesn't care if guacamole is fresh, canned or a mix as long as it tastes good.  She doesn't care that they don't sell Modelo in a TexMex restaurant, I on the other hand think that guac should be at the right price point so you're making the right money and if you don't sell Modelo in a TexMex restaurant then why do you want to lose money?  Oh wait, they'll make it back on volume right?  I've worked for a guy that thought that.  He no longer owns that place.

I think the move will be good.  Like most of life it will be an adventure, you just have to live it.  See you out there.