Sweetie and I went bike riding last week after work.

I just love the light on the tree trunks.

Fuzzy downtown Tulsa

A few miles to go, the sun is going down.

Changes in the sky – it took only a few minutes

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“Jesus Wept”

Oklahoma City Memorial

I went on a trip to Austin, Texas a couple weeks ago.

There was still snow in Tulsa and they were spraying the planes with what looked like pepto-bismol.

They had the plows going also

Dang it, this is Tulsa, OK at the end of March, not Fairbanks in January, anyway, we got the word,

Big Bird, you are cleared for takeoff.

I got to Austin and the Texas skies were blue and the temperature was warm

See the flag. Texans are very particular about the flag. Years ago I worked at a natural gas processing plant in Texas right on a major highway. If the college kids we hired put the flag up upside down, people would be pulling off the highway left and right to make sure we took it down and put it up right. You see its a five pointed star and your always have two of the points pointed down. God help you if you mess it up.

The SXSW Music Festival was winding down and the Sixth Street area was busy (sorry for the blurry photo)

I saw this leg lamp in a store window. Too bad it was closed, I know my wife would want one of these. Maybe if I ever go back. Can you carry a leg lamp on a plane, or do you have to check it?

I got homesick thinking of my wife, Sweetie, and how much she would love that lamp. Then I got even more homesick when I came across this shuffleboard parlor.

Playing shuffleboard, that is our deal. Too bad she wasn’t here with me.

A former residence of the writer O. Henry was right across the street from my hotel. He was an awesome short story writer and I love short stories.

I got a pretty good tour of east Austin while geocaching during a three hour lunch break one day. Its a real interesting area. Big time gentrification going on so you have a mix of the old and the new.

I absolutely loved the murals in the neighborhood.

Interesting Idea for a Neighborhood Watering Hole

I loved this house for some reason.

I loved this place also.

Right down the street this modern building.

Now, I love this but its like, is the offset of the second floor for a reason? Or just because it looks cool. I’m ok with it either way, I just want to know what the deal is.

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The sun is still shining in Oklahoma.

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The sun is shining again in Oklahoma!

Indulge me, please, one more shot from my office window.

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I love Skywatch Friday, the participants are so talented and the commenters are so nice and encouraging. The whole experience has been very uplifting and I never go anywhere without looking at the sky all the time. Skywatch is really a bright spot in cyber space. Just think, without Al Gore we wouldn’t have this. Thanks Al, really.

Well, Tulsa has been pretty drab lately. I have been trying like crazy to get a good skywatch photograph but mother nature hasn’t been there for me. So I decided to spice things up a little bit with the first (to my knowledge) XX Skywatch Photograph. So brace yourselves, here goes, ready …

Please don’t think less of me.

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That Old Cape Magic is about Jack Griffin and his parents, his wife, Joy, and her parents. It is about what happens when you don’t live your own life by reacting to your parents life. It is also about choosing to be happy or unhappy.

Jack Griffin is one tortured soul. His parents were ivy league academic snobs, who couldn’t get jobs in the ivy league. He married a woman, Joy, who Jack’s mother dismisses because she hadn’t done any “graduate work.” Jack cannot decide if he wants to continue his present academic gig or return to Hollywood to write scripts for cheap made for TV movies.

This book is about how he tries to resolve these issues in his life. This book isn’t comic like Nobody’s Fool or Straight Man but I liked it. I rate it 2.5 stars out of 4, which is good.

Hey, you want to know how to scare me?

Pull a gun on me. Nope, I’ve read enough detective novels over the years that I know how to handle that pretty easily.

Global warming? Nope, looking forward to the end of cold winters.

Obama taking Sarah’s babies away? Nope, the Democrats are going to get killed in the mid term elections. Besides, I suspect that she has more weapons than the Alaskan National Guard.

Six Flags, – Well you are getting close.

You want a sure way to scare me half to death and induce an anxiety attack. Pull into a drive through and ask me to do the ordering for everybody.

Or worse, make me order at Sonic.
There are two problems.

One, I can only remember one thing at a time. So if some people want cheeseburgers, others hot dogs, and others chicken nuggets. I’m lost. Further if this person wants it plain, the other no ketchup, and on and on. There is no way. Forget the drinks!

Second, the person on the speaker cannot understand me, and I cannot understand them. Try as as I might, I try to talk louder, slower, whatever they cannot make me out. Then when they recite the order back, I have no idea what they are saying. I can hear them find. I just cannot make out words of what they are saying. AAAAAAH. Help.

One of these days I want to pull this stunt.

11 See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.
12 Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
is heard in our land.

Song of Solomon 2:11-12 (NIV)