So a couple of engineers came to Houston to the company I worked for to oversee a project we were doing for them. They were from India. They had been in the northeast a good bit but never here in Texas. Well one day they came to me with a map of Texas and wanted to go to lunch somewhere unique and as 'Texan' as possible. They proudly annouced that they had found the perfect place to eat that day (online) and asked if El Paso was a safe place to visit for foreigners to visit. They would NOT believe me when I told them that El Paso was roughly 800 miles to the west. It took a quick reference to the maps 'scale' indicator before they decided against it.

So Martin... Texas is very large! It takes a long time just to get across the street.

edited to spell-correct a really easy word...

I’m (relatively) recently single, and the process really, really bites. Time does seem to have a mitigating effect, but I remember that early on that just sounds like so much horsesh--.

"I've been on that cold ground a time or two
Somehow that makes me a little more like you..."

Boy, I just found this thread...thanks to the newer notes.

And boy did I walk in on something. I had to back track some to get a deeper understanding..