I work with a girl from Vietnam, who came to America when she was a child. We were discussing tattoos the other day, and I mentioned a friend's LaCoste alligator tattoo. She said that the alligator was kind of puffy. "Puffy? You mean it sticks out, on the shirt?" I asked.

"No, I mean it's a fat alligator. In Vietnam, the alligators are skinny."

"I didn't know there were any alligators in Vietnam. Huh."

"Yeah, we have one. At the zoo. They don't feed him enough and he's really skinny."

So she made me laugh for about half an hour, and it's still good for a giggle now. So now I know that there is one alligator in Vietnam. And he could apparently use a couple extra meals.

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Last night we went to the Bridges auditorium to see Willie Nelson. It was fun, but I have to say (I'm not a true committed Willie Nelson fan) that after a couple of drinks, the songs all started to sound like "Crazy", the Patsy Cline song that Willie wrote. It struck me that this is the only concert that I have ever been to that has used a Texas state flag as a backdrop. There really aren't that many events I would actually attend that involve a Texas state flag.