This season is the first for our Oklahoma City Thunder.  They have not been the most impressive in the world to watch with their many losses so far.  As of today they have only won four games and appear to be on the door of their fifth (hopefully).  Tonight they have been as high as [...]

Anyone that has driven I-40 downtown has probably noticed the increase in their automobile suspension repair bills.  This bridge that spans close to three miles has been falling apart piece by piece.  This stretch of freeway is being rebuilt six blocks to the south and will mostly be underground.  This photos was just meant as [...]

It is hard to find anything more pleasing than a nice morning sunrise when you do not have to go to work.  The beauty of my situation this morning is that it is the end of the year and I have some use or lose vacation time that I have to burn so I took [...]

Yesterday we had the remnants of hurricane Ike and we received a little rain.  Today we woke up to a sunny morning with a cool North wind.  Man it was so nice feeling that cool wind all day long.  Add to this, I just saw on television that the University of Oklahoma (OU) Sooners moved [...]

The new Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team video.  The original is on http://www.nba.com/thunder but it would not load on here as easy.  I read the team is not only auditioning a new dance team but also a drum line.  That should be interesting to see how a drum line can make a thunder sound.  It [...]

If you are familiar with Oklahoma summers you may have heard the peculiar loud clicking sounds coming from the trees.  This cicada is the culprit and when you hear them you know that it is not just summer but the hottest part of the summer.   For some reason, the locals call them locust but they are really [...]

There are some things that are often gone unrecognized in a person’s life and one of those is the small things you do with your family from day to day.  Today my wife and I took off work so we could have a four day weekend along with the Labor day holiday.  My wife Sunday [...]

Man what a change in weather. It was just four days ago it was 104 degrees and we had not had any rain in a month. The grass was dead and the air conditioner was running 24 hours a day. Yesterday I woke up to a nice rainfall that lasted five hours. We received between [...]

Yesterday I went to update my blog to the newest WordPress 2.6 and I managed to destroy my sql database.  How nice is that when you have more than two years of blog posts?  I had to start completely over yesterday and repost all my blog posts one at at time.  I have been working [...]

This is a rare opportunity to enjoy a weekend without having to do school work since I finished the summer semester last week.  The fall semester does not begin until August 25th.  I just wish it was not so hot but I guess this is typical of August to be 100+ degrees.  We have been [...]