{"id":11525,"date":"2017-10-04T20:47:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11525"},"modified":"2017-10-04T20:47:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T01:47:48","slug":"skywatch-friday-oklahoma-city-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11525","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Oklahoma City Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"20170930-205406-30\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/36769828313\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4472\/36769828313_7fce18582c_z.jpg\" alt=\"20170930-205406-30\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>My last post was about a wedding we went to, this is about the day after.<\/p>\n<p>I wake up earlier than everybody else and sure I drink coffee and read the paper but I like to get outside and I didn&#8217;t feel like running so I went geocaching.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171001-092417-43\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/37412004412\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4416\/37412004412_b5d5cae163_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171001-092417-43\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A simple type geocache is a skirtlifter. Located on the skirt on a parking lot light. There were two close to our hotel so off I went to find them.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" title=\"20171001-092538-44\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/37412008962\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4406\/37412008962_898727d6ab_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171001-092538-44\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The caches have little paper logs that you sign to prove that you were there and also a separate web page that you &#8220;log&#8221; to show the world that you found it. Check out geocaching.com for more info.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171001-085738-38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/36732789654\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4501\/36732789654_503a0dd024_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171001-085738-38\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some of the containers are pretty small. Plus under one of the caches I spotted a black widow spider.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171001-090311-39\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/36733349354\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4420\/36733349354_6687ee22aa_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171001-090311-39\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Who would of thought that high rise apartments in Oklahoma City would be around enough to need renovation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171001-090955-48\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/23594172998\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4416\/23594172998_71aa5bac83_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171001-090955-48\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You are saying, &#8220;Hey this a Skywatch post, where is the sky?&#8221; Right here, behind this architectual gem. I don&#8217;t know whether this is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mid-century modern\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mid-century_modern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">mid century modern<\/a> or <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Googie architecture\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Googie_architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Googie<\/a> or what but I think it is beautiful. It is also empty, but seems well cared for. I love those arches with the cables. I am thinking this used to be a bank.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171001-090726-40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/37185847930\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4352\/37185847930_13323e8674_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171001-090726-40\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is the back side of what I think is a bank. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I really think they should install more lighting. Eleven lights is just not enough.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171001-091658-42\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/36733378124\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4334\/36733378124_8c86e6659a_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171001-091658-42\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And this building is a special place. This is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Founders Tower\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Founders_Tower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Founders Tower<\/a> and there is a restaurant at the top that rotates and that is where Heather and I had our first date back in the 80&#8217;s. It was called the Eagles Nest then and now it is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3sixtyokc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3sixty restaurant and bar<\/a>. We had a great time. Or at least I did.<\/p>\n<p>It is also and office building. The oil and gas industry at a certain level is almost a barter economy. You have geologists, landmen, and reservoir engineers who will work for an interest in a well rather than cash. Lots of those guys used to have offices here.\u00a0 That was back in the day when you could drill a vertical Redfork well in the Anadarko basin for &#8220;only&#8221; $1.5 million. Nobody does that any more. Now to drill and frack a horizontal Woodford Shale, or STACK, or SCOOP or other shale well is going to cost you $10 million. I have had customers with a straight face tell me about &#8220;pilot projects&#8221;\u00a0 with seventy such wells.<\/p>\n<p>The technology invoved used to be almost generic but now the players keep their secrets very closely held. I am out of the game a little bit now but I wonder how the barter economy has survived. As Alan Jackson says, &#8220;the big money has come to town&#8221; or something like that.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171001-093218-45\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/37186091690\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4463\/37186091690_877d1eb608_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171001-093218-45\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And then back to the hotel. Notice the pedestrian friendly streets in Oklahoma City. I&#8217;ve always loved Oklahoma City for its pioneering boom and bust attitude.<\/p>\n<h1>I&#8217;m linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skywatch Friday<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post was about a wedding we went to, this is about the day after. 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