Claustrophobic

It helps to know someone

So I came home at 7:35p.  I was eating and watching korean drama with my mom and everything was going good.  Then when it hit 7:55p, I kept looking at the clock every 10 seconds because Grey's Anatomy was fixing to come on.  I ran to my room and turned my tv tuner on and saw Ugly Betty was still on .

I went back out to eat, I looked at the clock again and it was 8:01, shiet! I got up to run to my room but BAM! All the lights went out....WTF?!?!?! I looked outside and the whole neigborhood was pitch dark.  I had a choice to make, stay outside where it feels really cool or stay inside where it's warm.  I chose to stay inside, because apparently when the lights go out, mexican people like to turn on their trucks and blast them mexican music with the coo coo racha instruments.

Too much time was passing by and I saw the same electrical truck driving around the neighborhood atleast 5 times, just cruising.  I decided to call Reliant to see what the dealio.  I got an automated message that told me to call the electrical distribution company, which was centerpoint.  I didn't let the voice finish giving the number because i knew who to call, Drew (an employee of centerpoint)!

This is how the conversation went down:

Drew: "Chazzz!"

CK: "Hey Drew! Why my electricity out?"

Drew: "I don't.." BAM....the electricity turned back on.

CK: " What the heck the electricity came back on"

Drew: "I know, I fixed it over the phone"

Thanks Drew! I shoulda called you sooner, instead of waiting around in the dark for 20 minutes. You're damn good at your job.

Now I gotta watch the replay of Grey's online saturday, dammmmitttt, i was ready to watch it too.

You know you've been working on the computer too long when...

Check this ridiculousness out

Got my cell phone bill from T-Mobile.  I'm on the $39.99 plan (600minutes w/free nights and weekends), the total with tax comes out to $48.76.  Not a bad deal, unless you go over 600 minutes, which I did, and over is an understatement by the way.

With T-Mobile each minute you go over is an additional $0.40.  I happened to go over by 440 minutes. My total bill came out to $253.25!!!!

That's enough to cover my cell phone bill for 5 months!!! Almost half a year!!!! WTF!!!!!!!

Do you know how absurd that is....omfg, now that is a shiet load of money to be paying. Oh, by the way, the previous cell phone bill before that was for $176.00.

That equals to over $400 in two months on just my stupid cell phone...do you know how ridiculous that is?!?!?

Well I went over my minute usage with customer service and apparently i could have easily solved that over usage problem by signing up for the unlimited T-mobile to T-mobile plan for an extra $6.99!!! Because 80% of my minutes used during peak hours have been with people who have T-Mobile.

Well, now that I have that feature I shouldn't have to worry about any over-charges.  Lesson learned: I needa STFU sometimes.

I am currently accepting donations for future overcharges that I may incur due to my jabber mouth....

OKLAHOMA!

I would like to thank Syed for driving me and Johnny to and around OK and back to TX. He was a great host and logged so many freaking hours driving...thanks bud. Also, thanks Hoang for letting us borrow your camera to take pictures, you da man. I hope I did insoo proud as he is the official ACS cameraman.

On to the trip:

Johnny, Syed, and I got our drink on thursday nite at Johnny's!

Needless to say we drank too much...we killed the bottle of vodka, but i think the tequila shot fawked us over. Johnny was tired and sleeping most of the 8 hour ride to Oklahoma...haha

This guy cannot be fazed...this is Sy driving to Oklahoma on 40 minutes of sleep with no hint of exhaustion.

Sy told me to capture this shot of the Red River and then proceeded to tell me that the Red River is not actually red...thanks for that tidbit Sy. Maybe he was somewhat dazed from driving so much

WELCOME TO OKLAHOMA!!!

Ghetto ass McDonald's sign and gas station called Kum & Go in some remote area of Oklahoma...keh keh keh...

Finally got to Tulsa!!!! Let the party begin! By this time we heard every hit song atleast 50 times...the Nelly Furtado song was by far played out the most...

Syed's house/duplex...he lives on the left side and some couple live on the other side.

Syed chilling in his room, with one of the smallest laptops I've encountered.

Johnny passed out from heat exhaustion. Sy's place has a window ac unit that don't work too well, so it was a lil hot inside...sorry for whining about the heat, but it was hot man! I felt sticky...

Sy had a nice place, looked like some queer may have interior decorated it. (Guess Tayu or Sam paid a visit)

Drive by shot of University of Tulsa sign.

Law School building that Sy currently attends.  I think its called Jim Adler's School of Hurt. Don't mess with Jim.

This is the 3rd time we went to Cherokee Casino which was about 20 minutes away from Syed's place.  This dude was knocked the fawk out, he had Illinois plates and we think he killed himself thru exhaust fumes, cause his car was still running but he wasn't moving or breathing at all.  This is where Johnny taught me to play Pai Gaw...damn thats a fun game....Lake Charles here we come!!!

Syed was nice enough to take us to Oklahoma City where we visited the Memorial and chilled around:

Wow...finally a pic of me! Standing in front of the main entrance to the Museum of the Memorial.  On the ground are areas of chalkboard where people write messages for the deceased from the bombing.

ACS showing love to the lost ones who did not deserve to die. God bless.

That column down there says 9:01 and there's one identical to that one behind me that says 9:03.  Did some research and here's what i found:

Monumental twin bronze gates frame the moment of destruction - 9:02 - and mark the formal entrances to the Outdoor Memorial. 9:01, found on the eastern gate, represents the last moments of peace, while its opposite on the western gate, 9:03, represents the first moments of recovery

This is the reflecting pool which is a very thin layer of water.  Here is Johnny making a wish and throwing a penny into it. Johnny said he bet there were hundreds of dollars worth of change in it, I thought maybe $33.77 total tops.

So I attempted to throw a penny into the pool too.  All it did was glide along the water and roll out onto the pavement....hahahaha...don't worry on my second attempt it stayed in the pool...woohoo!

Field of Empty Chairs - i read that a total of 168 people lost their lives in this tragedy including 19 children and 3 unborn children. Each chair represents an innocent life taken. That picture looks awfully "ghostly", all I did was point and click...spooky   

We then headed to Brick Town - where they have their own version of the Riverwalk that I did not care to take a pic of:

We chose this cajun joint to eat at and the food wasn't bad going in.

I happened to take a photo of the menu where at the bottom it basically says you might feel like shit after eating here and fawk yeah I did.  More to come on that later.

Oooooh....johnny posing next to the Johnny Bench statue, one of the greatest catchers to play the game...this is in front of Oklahoma City's triple A stadium.

Oh lookie here...Sonic headquarters...keep them strawberry limeades coming!!

Back in Tulsa, Sy took us to a Thai restaurant. Lemme tell you, this is one of the best tasting Pad Thai's I have ever tasted!!! I forget what the restaurant was called but I will find out!!@

Sorry Syed...I almost drank his sacret bottle of water...in that sparklett's bottle is water from a sacret place in Saudi Arabia his mother gave him, oh and it was also over a year old too. He still has it cause Sy said he aint drinking shiet from Saudi Arabia...but you shoulda looked at the expression on his face when I said I drank it, I thought I was gonna die cause he was gonna kill me or I was cursed cause not anyone can just drink this holy water.

Where's the love??? All I can say is, thank you for purchasing Longhorn gear to help our University improve in areas that need improvement--which sports is definitely not one of them...

Back to Texas where we stopped by at Plucker's in Dallas!!! where's the Houston location??? damn...the food was on par with the plucker's in Austin.

Trip related report:

We went to McNellie's Tavern which hold different beers from around the world.  Johnny tried the King Fisher from India.  I ordered a Zambezi from Zimbabwe, they were out, so I ordered a Boris from France, but they were out...I got the inclination they din't appreciate me wearing a UT shirt...finally I ordered Scottish Ale and they had that...but i was weary to drink it, because they served it to me with the bottle already open....come to think of it...i got fawked up on 2 beers, they did something.....does piss or body fluids mixed with alcohol make you drunker??? hmmmm...

According to Syed i dream about sex, he said i was grunting and moving about on the floor and saying, "yeah take it"....

There are no tumbleweeds in Oklahoma but huge bales of hay.

I had an oyster poboy with gumbo at that cajun restaurant....and I felt the repercussions almost immediately...we went downtown OK City afterwards to check out the NBA Hornets team store, it was closed as well as every building downtown....then CODE RED ALERT --- CK needed to take a shiet now, or he could add to his collection of horrific shiet stories!!!!! CODE RED!!!! My gawd...we found a Quizno's that was open in an office building!?!?! We asked where the restroom was and I had to take an elevator down, which I had no problems doing! THANK YOU QUIZNO'SSSSS you were there for me when no one else was. BTW, I dint appreciate Johnny and Syed throwing change at me while i'm sitting on the toilet, or Johnny saying,"Are you ready??" and I say, "no!" and then he goes ahead and turns the light off in the bathroom...  

All in all, it was a good trip and we went and did alot of things. One thing I would of changed however, is not getting messed up the day we were suppose to leave, other than that it was fun!