Have some dorky fun!

Okay, tell me in the comments every famous guy you know of that's from Texas (aside from politicians, because they don't count for this).

Jensen Ackles
Jared Padalecki
Matthew McConaughy
Bobby Labonte
Terry Labonte (obviously)
George Eads
Lyle Lovett
Patrick Swayze
Bowling for Soup
Tommy Lee Jones
Brent Spiner
Dan Rather
Justin Leonard
AJ Foyt
Roger Clemens
Dennis Quaid
Randy Quaid
Sean Patrick Flanery
Clint Black
Luke Wilson
Owen Wilson
Christian Kane
Lance Armstrong
Larry Hagman
Kirk Franklin
Cowboy Troy

Christmas Story

I've gotten so used to my family that often I forget to tell stories that I should.

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For Christmas my family makes lists. You can't go wrong with lists. My sister asked for a Chamber Check for my brother-in-law. A Chamber Check is issued by the Chamber of Commerce and is good at any store that is a member of the Chamber.

My grandmother had never heard of it.

At dinner my grandmother starts asking about what it was. She'd asked my aunt about it, wanting to know if it was anything like a "pee pot" (yes, like a chamber pot). My aunt doesn't think so, but hey, she's not sure what it is either. (In all fairness, I had little clue other than it might have to do with the Chamber of Commerce. It's a new thing in these parts.)

My sister during this conversation is getting confused. She doesn't understand how a Chamber check is anything like a "pea pod". Due to similar sounding words, there's much discussion that leads nowhere until my mother suddenly exclaims "You mean like green peas?" in response to my sister.

Much laughter and a history lesson later, my sister knows what a chamber pot is and the conversation suddenly makes much more sense.

And I have to dig through tons of romance novels to find a properly "historic" one so she can get a history lesson.

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A work note of amusement - they just tried to take my computer. *snerk*

I have two. A Mac and PC. I do most work on the PC, including anything related to accounting and billing (just entering timesheets and purchase orders and opening jobs). Email is on the PC. But there's one program we use to house our databases that's only usable on Macs. This is how we do our mailings that are "so important" to growing the business.

They just tried to take the Mac for an intern that's coming in. The IT guys that is. They were only doing their job and taking the one they were told to take by management. I had to point out that 1) I have to have that computer to do mailings, which the intern won't be doing and 2) why don't they just use the intern computer at the intern desk that was specifically set up for...interns?

The looks of surprise are kind of funny.

Match.com

What?

"Hi there. My name is Mike. You have nice eyes. They are very deep. Tell me about yourself."

I repeat...what?