Jen Austin

Ok fishermen, have you ever reeled in a catch as big as your truck?  You anglers get a bad rap for your tendency to exaggerate just how big the catch was, but this 800-pound monster was no exaggeration.  Seriously!  A San Antonio man hauled in this monster last weekend.

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I like to look on the bright side and find the good in things, BUT I couldn't resist passing along this little gem I found online.

I ran across a chart outlining the most hated Major League Baseball teams for particular regions across the country and across the globe, and it turns out that Texas isn't too fond of Texas.

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Guardians of the Galaxy was a HUGE movie over the weekend with a record $94 million bucks.  Did you see it once or twice or six times?

There was one movie crowd in New Jersey that settled into its seats with big buckets of popcorn ready to see Guardians of the Galaxy, and when the movie started it was the wrong one.  A big theater oops!  How would you react?

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Road trips are great, right?  The weather is awesome, you roll down the windows and crank the music, and there is no stress at all.  Yay!  That was how is used to be before kids.  And then those little needs - constant needs - change the dynamic of the car for the rest of our lives.

What's the biggest road-trip-ruiner when kids are involved?  Here's mine!

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Sometimes and oops happens.  And this is one that Aggie fans are gonna run with!

In the University of Texas' media guide, it didn't take long at Big 12 Media Days to discover that "Texas" was misspelled.  

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A bad accident Wednesday night claimed the life of an Austin woman, and Stephen F Austin said she was on her way to freshman orientation.

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Growing up in a small town in Nebraska I was close to my family, and there were certain things I always expected by dad to know how to do.  He was always there fixing things with his handy drill, landscaping the yard with his trusty riding lawn mower, and grilling ribs on Sundays.  He was just the go-to guy for that kind of thing.

Turns out, those are all things that women expect from any guy.  Whether it's Dad or a husband or boyfriend, guys are expected to know how to be good at drilling stuff.  What else is on the list?

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Kramer cracks me up with his views on marriage.  Is it really a "man-made" prison and married couples are doing time?  Oh, and do you remember the classic episode where Kramer bought those skinny jeans and his whole world turned upside down?  Tight pants are the worst!

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It seems like the need for 8 hours of sleep has been drilled into our heads our entire lives, but that recommended amount of sleep may be changing.

Is it possible that 8 isn't great?

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Do you geek out about numbers at all?  I remember 7-7-07 and 8-8-08 being big days for weddings, and maybe some c-sections too. Happy sixth birthday to those kids in a few weeks.

There's another big date coming up this winter that will never come around again, and I read that brides are falling all over themselves to get the date booked the wedding day.  Can you guess it?

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This story may not have quite the impact if it was coming from a video-game-playing dude in his twenties who spent most of his time on the couch eating chips.

But it's coming from a guy with big ambitions who heads a multi-billion dollar company, and is the second-richest person in the world behind Bill Gates.

Carlos Slim is saying we should only be working three days out of the week.  Great!  Now what's the catch?

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Governor Rick Perry announced Monday he was sending a thousand troops to the border with Mexico to combat the border crisis, and said that process will happen over the next month.

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