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Visiting Houston anytime soon? You can check out the Beer Can House while you are here. Yep, it’s for real. I’ve seen it. Even ate at the restaurant across the street once a few years ago. The house is quite interesting. Houston is a strange city.

My mom & I took Jason to the first day of Cub Scout Day Camp today. On the way home she was telling me about her experience last night with her PC-clueless friend. Seems Vivian (her friend) had received a free sample diskette of photos once when she had film developed. She has never, ever used the disk. So last night they decided to look at the pictures, my mother’s innocent attempt at teaching Vivian to appreciate her computer. When they inserted the disk and opened the photos all of the photos appeared upside down. Vivian told my mom to take the disk out and “put it in the other way so the pictures aren’t upside down.” Yes. Put it in the other way. She wanted her to insert the diskette backwards into the drive, thinking that would fix the problem. I was laughing sooooo hard when my mom told me about this. It only got worse when she said she told Vivian, “It doesn’t work like that.” Vivian responded, “Well – you always say computers can do anything. Fix it. Make it work.” *laughing* I love it. Put it in the other way… like it’s a slide projector or something!

I just came across a Guestmap on another site & had to get one of my own. Please take a moment & leave your “mark” on the Guestmap – the link is over there on the right! Thanks!

I don’t know why, but it always amuses me when I stumble across the blog of someone else that is (stuck) here in Houston. I just found Pie in the Sky – and she must live nearby because her picture of her house shows the Compaq Headquarters – right up 249 from where I live. Wow… Ok, ok, so not everyone is as easily amused as I am. She thinks Enron Field rocks too – that counts for something, doesn’t it?

I just found The Date-My-Sister Project over at TheSpark.com. This is too hysterical. Christian says:

I’m gonna spend the summer finding my sister a boyfriend. I’ve got a bunch of eligible bachelor-type friends, and I’ve got a whole shitload of espionage equipment. She will go on dates, I will spy, and with the information I collect, I will devise the perfect man for my sister.

It was hysterical reading about what all he has gone through so far – and to think it’s only early June! Damn, I wish I had a brother to look out for me like that.

What a day I had yesterday. I went to an interview in downtown in the morning. Then lunch with the always wonderful Chelsey at Pappa’s Barbeque while I was down there. I miss working in downtown for 2 reasons – the bus ride to work (yes, it is a nice 30-40 minute break from things, time to unwind rather than drive) and getting to see Chelsey all the time. After I dropped her off back at her office I went over to the Park Shops so I could go see if I could find a nice suit – I need more “corporate” work clothes. I lucked out and found a *fantastic* sale and purchased a $130 3-piece suit – navy blue jacket, dress and pants – for $50. It fits perfectly – like it was made just for me. I also bought a black jacket for $20 that was $60 originally. Then I headed up to my former employer’s office to pick up my final paycheck. I must admit, there are many things I could say here about that experience, and none of them would be nice. I will bite my tongue (or rather stop my fingers) and not say any of them. *sigh* Let’s just leave it on this note – I am glad that I am moving on. I have my last check, I wash my hands of the rest of it as it is not mine to worry about any more. I have much better things to concern myself with – like getting ready to start MY NEW JOB!!! Yep, the job I wanted… they told me they would make me an offer on Friday when I met with them on Wednesday – and they came through! Whoo hoooooo!!! I am so excited. I called them on a whim to even see if they were had an opening exactly 2 weeks ago (May 18th) and I already have the job. I start there on June 11th. I ROCK!!! So, the good definately outweighed the bad in the long run yesterday, and to top it all off I even get a raise! I am going to try to temp next week if I can, otherwise I will do some work on this site & others that I have been meaning to do and some late spring cleaning (tossing!) around the house.

We had a “Carbo Cookoff” for Jason’s swim team last night – everyone brought a high-carb dish for dinner at the clubhouse. Being the carbohydrate addict that I am, I thought I was in heaven! Afterwards we came home and it was off to bed – we had to be up at 6:30 this morning for the swim meet. Ugh. I was a timer for both shifts at the meet. I volunteered when I saw they were short staffed, and I am glad I did – it really helps make the meet go a lot faster when you are working it instead of just watching. It was awfully hot by the time the meet was over – just looooove that sticky hot feeling! Came home & got cleaned up, but now we are going out to the pool again. I finished “The Bone Collector” yesterday morning, so now I am going to read “Bridget Jones’s Diary”, also borrowed from Kymberlie. As long as we are friends I will never have to buy a book or go to the library – she owns almost every book I can think of! I need to find my Chronicles of Narnia books for Jason – he wants to read them this summer. My parents gave me the boxed set when I was his age or maybe a year older – now it is time to pass them on to him. I want to read them again myself – I always loved those books.