1. I am a multi-generation Texan.
2. My multi-great grandfather was in the Texas Revolution.
3. Yes, it’s possible to grow up in Texas and be a liberal.
4. Yes, it’s possible to grow up in Texas and not like most country music.
5. RGV stands for the Rio Grande Valley
6. I currently live 9 miles from Mexico.
7. Hurricane Alex was just here.
8. We were lucky, our only damage was the loss of one board in the fence.
9. We did not even loose any tomatoes from our plants.
10. I have lived in 8 states. (Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, California, Missouri and Indiana)
11. I have lived in 5 countries. (The United States of America, Venezuela, Taiwan, Korea, Spain)
12. I used to live in Sweeny, TX.
13. My next door neighbor was in the KKK.
14. We were not friends.
15. We moved from the second to the last street on one side of town to the last street on the opposite side of town.
16. The move was 1.5 miles.
17. We were living there when the schools integrated.
18. Integration year the high school won state in football.
19. The school chant was “Integrate and go to State!”
20. In the 9th grade, I went to school in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
21. My class had 9 students.
22. I watched the astronauts land on the moon in a small Venezuelan town at the base of the Andes mountains.
23. We were the only people from the U.S. present.
24. The first microprocessor (Intel 2020) was released the year I graduated from high school.
25. I started college as a biology/pre-med major.
26. I worked my way through school as a hospital orderly.
27. I changed majors to electrical engineering when I got sick and tired of being around people that were sick and tired.
28. The first computer I worked on was a Digital Computing PDP8e.
29. We thought it was hot stuff.
30. It was the size of a large refrigerator.
31. It had 8K of memory.
32. It had no permanent storage capability.
33. It had 1 teletype terminal and 1 green screen monitor/dumb terminal.
34. We could only program it in BASIC.
35. It was booted (loaded the operating system, programs, etc.) from paper tape.
36. It took an hour for the system to load.
37. 3 weeks into my first programming class, I was ahead of my professor.
38. The professor used my tests to grade the rest of the class because I fixed his programming mistakes.
39. I was 44 when my first child arrived.
40. He was adopted. So I can’t blame anyone but myself.
41. I am living the line from the song; “I know what I was feeling, but what was I thinking?!?”
42. My father was a Roman Catholic Deacon.
43. He died 9 months before my son was born.
44. He and my kids would have gotten on well together.
45. My kids not knowing their grandfather is one of the saddest things in my life.
46. When my wife and I started dating, I warned her, in detail, about my mother.
47. My wife wondered how I could say such things about my mother and almost split up with me.
48. After meeting my mother, my wife wondered why I was so kind in my description.
49. For some reason, she married me anyway.
50. 3 years ago, my mother disowned us.
51. Our marriage hasn’t been better!
52. 20+ years ago, she disowned my brother.
53. His marriage had the same rebound.
54. When my son was 6, he informed us that when he grows up, he wants to be a Nautical Archeologist.
55. He is currently taking SCUBA lessons.
56. I think he is GT.
57. My daughter has hydrocephalus.
58. She is also adopted.
59. Everyone who knows her falls in with her.
60. I have to say things like that. It’s my job as a parent.
61. My wife is a musician by trade.
62. She plays over 30 different instruments.
63. Her favorite is the Celtic harp.
64. She plays for weddings, quincenieras, parties, funerals, wherever she will get paid.
65. I am her roadie.
66. I am also the sound man.
67. My son plays violin, piano, recorder and guitar.
68. My daughter is learning piano, recorder and harp.
69. I play the radio.
70. My preferred commuter vehicle is a 125cc scooter.
71. Where I live, I can ride it year round.
72. It averages 65 miles per gallon.
73. My average gasoline fill up is $3.
74. I do most of the cooking in our house.
75. I have won chili cookoffs with my recipe.
76. The current family favorite is my home made granola.
77. Yes Melly, It’s vegan!
78. I have a Master Chef friend.
79. One of the top selling items in his restaurant is a shrimp dish I invented.
80. He thinks I should open a restaurant.
81. I don’t want to do the hours required to make it work.
82. I may be crazy, but I’m not stupid.
83. I like having a life outside of work.
84. I’d like to teach the world to sing…
85. In perfect harmony…
86. Where I live we can get Mexican Coke.
87. It uses the old recipe and ingredients.
88. This is turning into a free association exercise.
89. I think, therefore I blog.
90. As I type this it is turning midnight.
91. I start work at 6:30 in the morning.
92. Looks like it is going to be a short night.
93. It is a good thing I can work from home most days.
94. Whenever I discover a TV show I really like, it gets cancelled.
95. I thing I need to do the nation a favor and start watching Fox News.
96. I am very glad my children are beyond Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine.
97. I can’t wait for them to get beyond Hanna Montana and I Carley!!!
98. My son is hooked on Godzilla.
99. He owns most of the films on DVD.
100. I made it through this without having to comment on my ex-wife. WHOOT!