A blog

It seems high time for a new blog! So here, without further delay, is red cobbler delight! The snow has faded and I have once more fallen in love with spring-time weather, though we are back in a colder spell for the time being... but by no means is it too cold. Not at all! It looks like we'll be seeing some rain in a few days, which is wondrous. I do love the liquid life source as it precipitates from on high. Speaking of rain, I wrote an ode yesterday. Well, I wrote two odes yesterday. But the one currently on topic is:

Ode to Rain
I lay, awaiting the downpour
I found it on the horizon
I saw it move through the sky
Now I feel it in the air
It reigns the atmosphere
To usher forth an outpour clear
Cleansing, refreshing, renewing is its call
My body, the earth, welcomes this purifying fall...
I await to waltz with this glorious rain!


I do love the rain, it tends to bring such a magical touch to the world. So far as my place on this world goes, I am setting up camp in Tulsa for the time being. I had some ideas to migrate to Bixby and move to OKC by march but stepping back and widening my gaze from a financial standpoint has changed my plans. How I dislike being bound by economical matters. However, things are on the up and up with my fiscal ventures, for I now have two jobs and will, before long, have three streams of income. My roots will rejoice and the trees will blossom forth in stupendous wonder!  I will no longer be playing chess with only pawns and a king.

Speaking of pawns, let's talk about fawns. Or maybe just... goats! We're at it again, this time our Canadian friends, with the help of University of Wyoming, have raised a mutant spider-goat!!!! It's not quite as bad as it sounds, though it is rather odd. Spiders happen to produce an incredibly durable fiber that mankind has been drooling over for ages. This company has figured out how to combine one spider gene with a goat to create a spider-silk-milk producing goat that will fuel an industrial revolution of super strength lightweight fibers. Click the goat for a bbc article over the chaps.

Day 2 of the two week training for my new job is on the doorstep. I plan on having a good night's rest for it. I bid your night be full of dreams so sweet and your day as dazzling as the shining sea!

Love,
Gabriel

Working / out / to south Tulsa / to OKC

Alright now, lets get down to the dirty business. Sweat stains. Yup, I said it. White work undershirts never have been so very unbecoming. In another world perhaps I would celebrate them. Let's take a journey into that realm for a moment. Oh dear discolored spots! Your marks of labor and grand perseverance! I commend you this day, today I mark as a memorial to your great essence, your sweet perfume of glory and splendor! Here I stand, wielding you proudly, high atop the mounts I raise my arms to the sky and parade you before the world; may all look upon you and know your fantastical beauty. You're a trophy of all that I have striven to accomplish, whether under the beating sun or fighting the cold weather beading down upon the ground. I celebrate your magnificence!

Soon I'm going to start adding borders or
something to my pictures... they need a little pizazz

While we're dancing around the subject, let's take a look at a nifty device for working out. This will tone your abs, upper more than lower but it still gets the lower abs, upper pectoral, shoulder traps, triceps and the nice mid-lower back. It's brilliantly simple and the genius is due to my brother, Benjamin Conners. If you want to see it in live action, observe. You basically just grab both ends, stand on your knees, and extend forward so you're almost prostrate then pull back in. The weights act as wheels. Anything with wheels will do, or even a wine bottle would work (a bit awkwardly, though). This thing will eat you up!


So I'm now working on my resume, I've got to adorn this baby with some of my glorious achievements. Regarding employment, I was supposed to talk to a certain Carol at Starbucks in Utica Square yesterday, but as things unfolded she didn't make it in, leaving me hanging until another day. Now this got me thinking... I'm working at Polo Grill right now in the evenings, though business just isn't quite cutting it. Granted, the weather has an entirely large role in this fact, but it wasn't quite working before this snowpocalypse either. At this point, the place is tying down my evenings when I could be working on a much more fiscally productive level elsewhere. I have an open door into a company down in south south Tulsa (Micahtek), and there is also a new Target that just opened up in Bixby. These, together with an offer to stay in a house right on the banks of the Arkansas River, seem too fruitful to pass by. My strategy for getting to OKC is now shifting to south Tulsa and is getting kicked up to overdrive.

Well Gabe, what might be driving you with such intensity to get down there, you may ask? The most beautiful gem to have ever shown her face in the history, past present and future, of the universe, I say! Yes, a gem... more specifically, I'd say an Emerald. The purest Emerald. An Emerald that is so brilliant and marvelous she can emit her very own light. A light that transcends all the known spectrum and shines into eternity! And by this Emerald, this gem, I do mean a woman. A beautiful woman who puts other women to shame, though she would never in an eon intend it to happen. It's sort of a side-effect, if you will, of being so very beautiful. She bubbles inspiration from the depths of my heart and mind and let it be known that I even have plans to raise OKC to greatness while there.

Be excited and go play in the snow! (If you have it, that is... if not, get some ice from the freezer and pretend it's a brick from a miniature ice castle. See if that helps :)

- Gabriel

...The music floats on the breeze...

Good day wonderful people traversing the internets! I sincerely hope your travels are of a joyous and uplifting nature. Last night I headed down to Bixby to spend some time with a good friend/family of mine, though not before running through Utica Square and catching some free coffee from my wonderful baristas at Starbucks. The trip was marvelous and enlightening as usual, I'd especially like to note a billboard I passed in downtown Tulsa...

I've got nothing against a nice pair of shoes... but you know, if this is where PSO thinks our priorities should be, I think Oklahoma needs a new public service company. A toast to new, less expensive energy! Perhaps, dare I say, free energy??

From time to time, I like to direct my energy to ventures of a culinary nature. My most recent creation was my breakfast this morning. However, my breakfast isn't very enthralling so instead I'll present to you an idea for a delicious sandwich/portabella burger. We start with bun of choice, or maybe a red leaf lettuce wrap. The sauce I'm thinking will be avocado based, perhaps involving some hummus (this is an experiment, mind you). Nextly comes the grilled portabella mushroom, lightly soaked in some balsamic vinegar and maybe a little citrus edge for good measure. Roasted red pepper should also be added. Beyond this I'm not too sure, maybe some caramelized onions, those go good with everything. The creation is dynamic enough already, so I'd try it out and see where to go from there. Delicious.

Backpedaling to coffee and things of a delicious nature, I believe I may be under the employment of Starbucks in the near future. This is an essential step in achieving my glorious destination of Oklahoma City and laying conquest to the southern lands. More on that to come. And now? Polo time.

Apparently we are getting another storm system tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. Don't let the cold winds blow out your flame! Stay warm and share the fire by loving both yourself and others.

Ciao!

Gabriel

Snow bound Love

Yesterday I embarked on an epic journey throughout snow-ridden Tulsa. Along the way I encountered many a fallen vehicle to Winter's prowess, pictured here is but one of the accolades this snow fall has acquired. Safe to say, someone didn't get their milk today. (It's a Borden Milk truck) I imagine Tulsa residents can live without their leche for a few days, though after a stroll through multiple food stores it is evident that people like their eggs, bananas, and toilet paper. I almost think a small country could be run off the three of those.


In conquering the lands, I fulfilled both my pent-up desire for adventure and an errand run, as I returned with necessities to frivolities ranging from drinking water to gin! Speaking of gin, I'll be back. And back I am, colorfully intense drink in hand. Now seems a suitable and necessary time to toast, so foremost here's a cheers to love, ever deserving of praise and admiration! A second toast to innovation and new exciting ventures. I've been having a host of inspirations as of late and I see that the government is doing something to prepare for the creative forces that are bursting forth about the country. A 'Startup America' alliance has been formed, backed by Obama and marked with the brand of such big companies as IBM, Intel, HP, AOL, and Facebook. The gist seems to be for the companies to pour millions into an incubator fund and Facebook is taking a good step in organizing jump starting events across the states. Smart Planet Blog - Startup America. I've been thinking about entrepreneurial incubators and I feel we're on to something here; I'm very glad to see Facebook involved.

While the snows of life may slow you down, never stop venturing for that which your heart yearns. In celebration of this season and all those lovers yearning for their respective loves, I present to you both an awesome picture over which I claim no ownership and this little piece I just crafted:





Season's Love, An Ode of the Heart... for February

This month sees the cold fall of snow. As Winter's majestic hand beckons the earth sleep below a spotless throw. Though through this hibernation the heart of earth resonates, its pulse drums anticipation like the Egyptian nation.
Now when this cool-temped temptress lifts her kiss, the world rejoices at the sheer magnificence of the Sun's bliss. She casts her rays of untainted love to every mount, man and shrub. The earth springs forth in holy green glory as my heart radiates from the beauty she emanates.
Oh what marvelous light!
That surrenders my heart and renders my soul to the ground.
The wind: her graceful walk, caresses my spirit with each wispful step.
The sun: her grin, her smile redirects the flow of the Nile and brings life to a once barren land. The trees rise, their aged wisdom clearing a path to the skies. I look up-
-Suddenly,
I'm face to face.
The purest Beauty is known in this place.

- Gabriel

Sugar in the Raw

Welcome to the realm of snow. Here, her cool arms envelop the earth in a light-hearted embrace; each delicate crystal finds its place amidst the others in an interlocking blanket of seamless white fluff. My photojournalism is quite under-par for a rich and gorgeous snow of this magnitude, but to show the half-day accumulation I have placed a stool in the clean fall o'er yonder sidewalk. As you can see, roughly 10 inches mark what I am considering to be about the average low level, but some areas (especially drifts around cars) saw at least 5 feet!

Shifting to an area where snow is hardly seen, Egypt is still in unrest as protesters press to reach 1 million in Tahrir square. Pro-Present Government protesters have moved into the square, screwing up the orderly protests and instigating scrimmages in the streets.



This picture has been deemed epic and will be on display for your viewing pleasure. Egypt, Tahir Square (Cairo)









I am on a quest of employment, morning to be specific. I believe starbucks may find its way into my list of employers very soon... News from the home front is in somewhat of a stasis beyond that, especially characterized by the snow drifts in between my apartment and the road. To compensate for some energy lost to the snowy hibernation, I am indulging in a French press of a dark and decent French roast coffee. The Press (roughly ground coffee that sits in boiling water for a few minutes before filtering) is one of the best ways to brew your coffee. You get a depth and smoothness of flavor that drip machines lack.

Speaking of coffee and things that may accompany it, todays title is a tribute to the pure and golden sugar cane sweetness. A packet of this beautiful substance made its way into my wallet. It floated in there on the wings of a baroque violin concerto; or the wings of an angel, at least.



Ciao,
Gabriel