It Sounds Mixed-Use and Transit-Oriented

I'm always getting my hopes up, I know. But this news about a planned development at US 75 and the Bush Turnpike sounds promising.

Apartment builder Trammell Crow Residential will start construction next month of the first phase of a 1,250-unit rental community located just west of the DART station. The first, 351-unit apartment block will be five stories with ground-floor retail and a parking garage. "We wanted an urban look to the project," which was designed by Good Fulton & Farrell Architects, Altemore said. "Trammell Crow Residential is delivering the product we wanted for the site."

Source: Dallas Morning News.

Review: Station Eleven

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From Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel:

Jeevan was crushed by a sudden certainty that this was it, that this illness Hua was describing was going to be the divide between a before and an after, a line drawn through his life."

After the jump, my review.

Here Comes The Sun

From 2015 03 05 Snow

Weather in Richardson, Texas, at noon today: 33 degrees and sunny.

Today's weather triggers an old and pleasant memory. Believe it or not, in Wisconsin a day like today (sunny, melting snow) is a welcome sign of Spring, not Winter. Once when I was in college, on a day just like today, everyone was outside enjoying the "nice" weather. A classmate opened his dorm window, put his stereo speakers on the window ledge, and blasted the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" to the whole campus. Good times.

And by the way, I hate to date myself, but that event was so long ago that "Here Comes the Sun" was at the time just recently released.

OTBR: Ice in Estonia

Latitude: N 58° 32.784
Longitude: E 023° 22.398

A child on a road trip with his family asks, "Where are we?" and the father answers, "Let's check the map. We're off the blue roads [the Interstate Highways marked in blue on the road atlas]. We're off the red roads [the US and state highways]. We're off the black roads [the county highways]. I think we're off the map altogether." It was always my dream to be off the map altogether.

After the jump, a few of the random places (and I mean random literally) that I visited vicariously last month that are "off the blue roads".

Regional Quarterfinals: Berkner 59, Skyline 53

In the third round of the State UIL basketball playoffs, the Berkner Rams men's basketball team defeated the Skyline Raiders 59-53 at Garland's Curtis Culwell Center. The win gets Berkner into the "Sweet Sixteen," the surviving teams in Class 6A out of the 128 who started the tournament.

The Rams win was all the more impressive because their leading scorer and playmaker Torey Everett missed most of the game with a sore ankle. The rest of the team more than stepped up, working the lead to fifteen points and then holding off a late charge by Skyline to take the win.

It's a great time to be a Ram!

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Sorry the photo is kind of blurry, but I was kind of excited.