I have a fridge magnet which reads: "If I'm
good and say my prayers, some day when I die I'll go to Texas
".
There can't be too many places in the United States of America where the local people feel so much pride for their state, as do the Texans. They have a saying, "Don't mess with Texas" which has meaning from something as simple as don't litter, to the realization that Texas has the right to vote itself out of the United States should the Texans feel the Union no longer serves them in the way they like.
One
can be forgiven for thinking that they're an odd bunch of people for dressing as
they do - they even go to work looking as though they're about to take part in a
rodeo! Or for the way they use those barnyard similes in ordinary course of
conversation, which usually requires some interpretation! I had a girlfriend
from Texas who spent a week with me on the yacht in the Caribbean and as she
was about to board the plane back home, she turned to me and said in that
delightful Texas twang, "Dang it Trevor, I feel like a horse that's been rode
hard and left out wet..." I believe she was saying that she had an
enjoyable holiday!
They love their dancing in Texas! It's a time for them to dress up in their finest cowboy gear and exercise their very skilled abilities to perform the Texas two-step to virtually any sort of music! If you ever go to Texas, make sure you go to one of their cowboy clubs which you will easily recognise by its name being something along the lines of "The Longhorn", "Billy Bob's", "Bronco's" and so on; you will not be disappointed!
The reality is that the Texans are happy the way they are, and proud of their unique heritage that has brought them to where they are today!
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I was encouraged to move to Houston by a friend of mine, Claire Ivy. It was tough at first - I'd just spent the best part of 10 years traveling around the world and I was a bit like a fish out of water on my arrival in Houston. I worked on an oil pipeline for a few months, sold used cars for a dealership north of Houston and got involved with a friend building fairings for motorcycles for a while before starting a sub-contracting company which pre-treated construction sites. This was a good business and served me well, enabling me to establish myself materially and settle my mind that I was able to be a terrestrial being once again! |
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There was a fundamental gap in my real-world experience which I needed to correct, so I took on the computer field which is what I had started shortly after leaving university a number of years before. I attended a technical college in Houston to learn how to engineer Microsoft networks and use Cisco routers. I started a networking solutions business and also lectured the MCSE course at the technical college in Houston. As much as I had all the tools to go hands-on with computers, It appeared quite clear to me that my forte was the business aspect rather than the hands-on engineering. |
