As you already know, that is if you’re read the last few posts, I spent the last few days in  Oklahoma visiting a friend and finally getting a chance to see the Flaming Lips live. As you also probably already know I enjoyed myself. Here are some more details that you also probably don’t care about.

• I ended up driving both ways from the Houston area of Texas to Stillwater, Oklahoma, including a round trip to Oklahoma City from Stillwater. I’m not sure, exactly, why I didn’t have anyone else drive for a while, especially since Steve asked me multiple times throughout the trip if I wanted him to take over. I guess I just wanted to see if I could make it.
• According to my GPS, I drove a total of 1,246.5 miles over 19 hours and 32 minutes of “moving time.” This places my moving average at 63.8 mph.
• I had never heard of the Bruam’s chain of ice cream/fast food places before. Despite my ignorance these things are all over Oklahoma and parts of northern Texas. There seem to be almost as many of those places there as there are Starbucks down here. I would complain about this, but the ice cream was good and also real cheap so hey. Would go again.
• Toby Keith owns a bar and grill in Oklahoma City which goes by the clever name of “Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill.” We did not eat here. We did, however, park in their lot.
• Based on the one Mexican food place we ate at I have a hard time calling Oklahoma Mexican food “Mexican food.” Maybe some kind of new word can be dreamt up for it, sort of like Tex-Mex but for Oklahoma. Okie-Mex? I dunno. Anyways the main difference between  Okie-Mex and actual Mexican food (or even Tex-Mex) is that in Okie-Mex nothing that is close to being even moderately spicy is allowed near the food. Not even the hot sauce. Also queso is called “cheese sauce,” I guess to keep anyone from getting confused. People from Oklahoma seem to enjoy Okie-Mex. It is a mystery to me. Regardless, eating there was an interesting cultural experience and worth the price of admission.
• Watching a man you don’t know throw alchohol up all over himself (and a little bit on the guy next to him) right in front of you is as amusing as it is disgusting/terrifying. I can’t say I reccomend it but at the same time I don’t regret seeing it.