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GG is a longtime skeptic and agnostic. She works as the VP of an energy company that specializes in natural gas processing technologies. She has also raised two good-looking skeptical sons. She blogs about nothing at www.twodifferentgirls.com

• More Flying Pigs

  By Geek Goddess on March 21, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  How great is my friend Kitty? She’s THIS great: I found a padded envelope stuffed into my mail box this morning. I had not ordered anything recently (except these totally awesome shoes from Fluevog), but I squealed when I saw… Read More ›

• Loving County Part 1 – Crappy Places to Be From

  By Geek Goddess on March 19, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  Loving County, Texas is the least populated county in the lower 48 states. Located in western Texas, near the point where the southeastern corner of New Mexico juts into the Lone Star State, it’s a vast, flat prairie of grasslands… Read More ›

• George Strait Doesn’t Eat Here: Fine Dining in the Oil Field

  By Geek Goddess on March 15, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  When I wrote about Goldsmith earlier, I said that there was only one restaurant left in town. I lied. There are two. I can be forgiven, since there is no sign on the place indicating a business, and unless you… Read More ›

• Old Barns and Geeky Toys

  By Geek Goddess on March 13, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  I’ve had an iPhone for around three years, which I use about 80% for work activities (email, research on internet, calculations, and sometimes even to make calls). The other 20% of the time, it’s a toy. Before that, I had… Read More ›

• Cold Spring Rain

  By Geek Goddess on March 12, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Something about a damp, drizzly, cold, wet day in the woods makes me feel not depressed, but content. Thick, lush, untamed undergrowth, dark gray skies slashed with tall spare pines, a hundred shades of green jumbled and competing, with little… Read More ›

• Fine Dining in the Oil Field: Panchito’s Burritos

  By Geek Goddess on March 9, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  I’ve been traveling to west Texas quite a bit, for my job, and often head straight to the field from the airport. Last year, a friend showed me a hole-in-the-wall burrito shop, Panchito’s Burritos, located in Odessa, Texas.  You can… Read More ›

• Crappy Places to be From: Goldsmith Texas

  By Geek Goddess on March 7, 2012 • ( 74 )

  

  In my glamorous job, I frequently get to travel to rather interesting places (for some definitions of the word “interesting”). For the most part, the great FSM did not put oil and gas in pretty places, which means some of… Read More ›

• Fine Dining in Oil Country: Skeptic Alert, or Veggies Can Dissolve Fat Clumps

  By Geek Goddess on March 6, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  You can’t make this stuff up, guys. When we ate breakfast at the Main Track Café, that I discussed yesterday, I was so enamored of the menu that I asked Sparkle-Server if I could keep one. The menu was side-barred… Read More ›

• Fine Dining in Oil Country: Main Track Cafe & Lounge

  By Geek Goddess on March 4, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  SKEPTIC ALERT TO FOLLOW! For our last breakfast in Weyburn this trip, our locals advised that we go to the restaurant at the truck stop for breakfast. This place, sitting on the edge of town by the gas station, featured… Read More ›

• Friends and Flying Pigs

  By Geek Goddess on March 3, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  One of the things I love about my friend Kitty is her eye for detail. When we travel together, her photos are filled with details – a cat sunning in a rustic doorway, a child with a dripping cone –… Read More ›