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http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/blog/333 en http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1266 <p>This will be my final New Texan Dan blog. It has been fun sharing our experiences with you as we became citizens of Midland. We are very happy here and intend to stay for several years. Thanks to everyone who read the blogs.</p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1266#comment Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:52:08 -0400 NewTexanDan 1266 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1118 <p>My job found me. After a couple of weeks of searching the classifieds, web sites and local business online application pages I am finally working. A friend of a friend sort of thing led me to inquire at a local caffe and I was working the very next morning.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1118">read more</a></p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1118#comment Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:53:29 -0400 NewTexanDan 1118 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1088 <p>Saturday was great! We took our visitors out of town to see some west Texas sights. We used a full tank of gas for the trip so we must have traveled several hundred miles, but it didn't seem so far really. What we saw was definitly worth the price of admission.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1088">read more</a></p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1088#comment Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:18:17 -0400 NewTexanDan 1088 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1077 <p>There is a plane winging its way from Houston to Midland as I write this. It is carrying a daughter and granddaughter toward their first visit to our new home here in West Texas. We can't wait to show them what we have already found and treasure in the Midland area.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1077">read more</a></p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1077#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:36:09 -0400 NewTexanDan 1077 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1033 <p>I watched the weather forecasts the last few days, wondering if it could actually be true. Was a Portland climate feature going to visit Midland? </p> <p>Today was proof for me that not every day of the rest of my life is going to be niney plus degrees outside. I'd heard of the earlier rains this year, but this was the first physical evidence I had that it does rain in Midland.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1033">read more</a></p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1033#comment Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:51:53 -0400 NewTexanDan 1033 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1001 <p>For almost 20 years my wife and I have not had to pay a sales tax. We lived in Alaska and Oregon before our recent move to Midland. Both of those states reap their revenues exclusively from annual income taxes, even though the citizens have had to repeatedly fight off legislative attempts to impliment additional state sales taxes. Now, did I hear right? Texas has no income tax?</p> <p><a href="http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1001">read more</a></p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/1001#comment Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:17:21 -0400 NewTexanDan 1001 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/970 <p>After weeks of having to borrow other's computers and wifi connections to get online, I am finally sitting down at my own computer in my own office using my own high speed connection. The process took a while today, because I choose to self-install the cable box and computer modem. I was ready to pull my own hair out until I followed my wife's advice and called tech support.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/970">read more</a></p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/970#comment Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:16:45 -0400 NewTexanDan 970 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/948 <p>LaQuinta has been wonderful to us, but we are ready to move into our own space. The weather for move day is going to be hot (no surprise) so we expect to be bushed by evening. Because of that we are resting today.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/948">read more</a></p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/948#comment Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:09:45 -0400 NewTexanDan 948 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/944 <p>When we began the process of moving to Midland in April of this year we divided the time between then and now into seven chapters. We are now finally writing the seventh chapter, our settling in to our new lives in West Texas.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/944">read more</a></p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/944#comment Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:47:05 -0400 NewTexanDan 944 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/860 <p>When we drove to Minnesota for this vacation I expected cooler weather than this, so I agreed to do some extensive yard work for my Mom. What has happened is a training course for living in Midland, TX.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/860">read more</a></p> http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community/node/860#comment Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:51:42 -0400 NewTexanDan 860 at http://www2.mywesttexas.com/community