My Secret Affair

So, I need to confess that I have been seeing someone in Oklahoma City. It's actually been going on for awhile. I used to see her when I would travel out to OKC when I was with CNI. I've always fallen in love very quickly, and I'm completely head-over-heels for her.

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Her name is Braum's.

She's a little slice of heaven in Oklahoma Cty. In 1968, Bill and Mary Braum opened the first 24 Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Stores in Oklahoma City. Now there are over 300 in four states. The Braums own 10,000 diary cows, which they milk 3 times a day, in order to make the best ice cream on the planet.

Braum's serves the 1/3 pound burger. That's right, they don't fuck around with the sissy "quarter-pounder", they give you 8% more hamburger up front. Braum's hamburgers are the absolute best hamburgers I have ever tasted. I will not argue about this. It's simply a fact. And they serve them with the thick "crinkle-cut" fries. I seriously think that they put crack on their burgers, or mix it in with the buns.

And the other thing is that you don't have to pass an act of congress in order to substitute a shake with your meal. THEY ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO IT. It's like they know they hooked you with the burger, what's a little sugar-smack to top it off, JUNKIE!? Yep, that's a milkshake with my 1/3 pound Jalepeno-Cheeseburger. Cookie-dough ice cream shake. Nuff said.

Anyway, the other fantastical thing about Braum's is that it's also got a little grocery store inside the fast food restaurant! Get your burger, then get a gallon of milk, some breakfast cereal, and a couple of steaks for the weekend! They used to have these awesome cherry-limeade hard candies, but they don't make them anymore. Let me tell you, the combination of fast food plus grocery store makes for some STRANGE customers. Then again, most everyone in Oklahoma is toothless with a mullet, shirtless, wearing flip flops and cut-off shorts, so, it's pretty much par for the course when you are standing in line behind Jed and Tater.

I guess I'm telling you all this so you won't be shocked when I come back to Albuquerque weighing 400 pounds. Love...sometimes she's a cruel bitch.

One other thing -

I know some of you have never had a Krispy Kreme donut, and, I'm sorry. I cheat on Braum's repeatedly with Krispy Kreme. KK is my little piece of fluff on the side. She's a cheap, quick fling, but, I get tired of her quickly and kick her out when I've had my fill. If Braum's and Krispy Kreme joined forces, I don't think I could make it.

Well, KK recently pulls some dirty shit -

That's right! The MULTI-GRAIN donut! It's now a HEALTHY DONUT! Hearty SEVEN-GRAIN! Is nougat a grain? I can eat as many as I want!

How can they put it next to the chocolate-sprinkles donut!? Those bastards! (Unfortunately, the "Hearty Seven-Grain" are pretty dry. Good job making one of my favorite things taste like cardboard. No wonder all of the KK's in Abq closed down.)

Okay, I lied. I think I figured out how to post a video here on Blogspot -

If this works, this is a very good video about what I will be doing. During the part where it says, "The plane is passed to an Air Route Traffic Control Center [ARTCC]" is me. That's what I will be doing. For those of you who thought that I would be on the tarmac with the orange sticks waving the planes to the gates, sorry...

A Quiet Saturday Night...

Hi everyone

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been feeling kind of off lately. It was really a rough week. I thought basics was hard, and I always knew that level 2 was just going to get harder, but, now that I'm in level 2, it's just insane. You have to learn the map, then you also have to learn the book work, as well as learn the proper way to clear an airplane to take off, land, and cross areas without flying into another aircraft's protected airspace. So, I'm trying to stuff three major areas of knowledge in my head, all while learning practically a new language.

On Friday, we did a walk thru with our first scenario - 7 planes. They weren't even landing or taking off. Just flying in my airspace. Three of them were flying at the same altitude. So, you have to move two of them. But when you move them, you put them on the same level as another aircraft. So, you have to give them restrictions - "Cross 6 miles soutwest of the Jackson Vortac (a ground-based measuring point), at or above 9 thousand [feet]" The problem is that if a plane is flying on a certain airway heading south and needs to decend, and another plane is going to intersect or cross that plane at the same altitute heading from west to east, DEPENDING ON THE ANGLE AT WHICH THEY ARE CROSSING, it determines how far away the first plane needs to decend before crossing the second plane. If the angle is only 15 degrees, the plane needs to decend 17 miles before crossing the second plane. If it is a 80 degree angle, then the plane only needs to cross 6 miles away. It's all basic geometry, and if you don't understand it, well, neither do I. Actually, I do get it, but, you need to be able to instantly recall the angles of the airways (called degrees divergence) for all the airways on the map.

I'm sorry, I'll get of the technical stuff. Needless to say, my brain was completely fried on Friday. I really felt like there was no way that I could do this. It was kind of depressing. The instructors keep saying, "It will come to you...It will come to you", but I just feel like i'm not really getting it...

We are shifting our schedule to nights next week. We work from 3:30pm-12:00pm. The instructors don't really know why, the standard answer seems to be that they need to share the classrooms and the equipment, so they alternate the schedule...So I'm staying up late tonight! I just got my body set to wake up at 4:00 am, and now I have to change it to sleep until 10. Thank god it's only for one week.

Not much else going on. I'll post a better post tomorrow.

We changed buildings - here is my new classroom:

Anyone want to guess where I sit again?

The Dynasty Returns

That's right! I'm saying it here right now. Celtics win their 17th NBA championship with Garnett, Pierce, and Allen.

On my X-mas list, Boston vs. Phoenix at the US Air Arena in Phoenix.

Boston is back! I don't want to hear any "BANDWAGON" bullshit. I'm calling it right now!

P.S. Minnesota - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

It's a wicked pissah!


Five players, two picks sent to Wolves for Garnett
ESPN.com news services
Updated: August 1, 2007, 11:52 AM ET

BOSTON -- Kevin Garnett gives Boston a new Big Three that brings the Celtics much closer to what their old Big Three delivered -- an NBA title.
The Celtics, who have 16 championships but have gone without one for more than two decades, obtained the former MVP and 10-time All-Star on Tuesday in a 7-for-1 deal -- the NBA's biggest trade for one player.