Beinvenidos

Welcome. This blog will be about life here in the Brazos Valley, a mid-sized community in the middle of the inhabited portion of the state. This location is highly classified and no matter if you think you know where it is, you are wrong. Just because there is a large state-run educational facility here where the principle product is engineers, vets and business majors, all with a propensity for wearing maroon means nothing. Move along.

My main interests related in these webpages will be local issues including which restaurants will let my kids in the door, how many of the local politicians are crooks and/or crazy (answer - all of them), and other various issues that interest me.

I'm currently a bureaucrat for a large state entity. I have a JD (UT) and an MBA (A&M). In my past lives I worked as a roughneck in the East Texas oilfields, I cowboyed for several years while growing up, and I was a staff attorney for a Texas State Representative. I also lived overseas for a short time. I have four children, two boys and two girls, and a beautiful wife whom I adore.

I have a strong connection to Texas. My earliest ancestor who arrived was Elisha Isaacks, a Scots Irishman, whose family originated in Ulster. He came to Texas in January of 1822, just a bit earlier than legal (My ancestors were undocumented before undocumented was cool). He settled in Bevil's Settlement. From his line, I'm of the seventh generation born in Texas and the ninth to live here.

And if you haven't figured it out by now, Devil Yack was a nickname given to Jack Hays in his days as a Texas ranger.