How it went

I'm in the Denver airport right now waiting another hour for my plane to Salt Lake.

The Oklahoma City interview went ok I guess. There was a pretty strict time limit on the panels, and I forgot to mention a few important things, like that I'm fluent in Spanish. I also may have said a thing or 2 that I'll probably regret when final scoring comes out, it really depends on what mood the panel was in when I was with them. Some of my hardest worked for goals have to do with running track, and since I ran at BYU and they happened to ruin the Sooners' season this year, I couldn't not mention it. I think it went over well, but you never know. They're not even sure they're going to have positions approved for next year, but as soon as they know they'll notify who is continuing on with the process. I think there were about 80 people total that were interviewed, and I heard they only want to hire 10. I'm not sure my chances are very good, but it would be an amazing place to live if it works out.

San Antonio looks pretty promising after showing up for the orientation. As long as I don't fail during the process, I should get offered a job for the June academy, if I don't already have a job before then. They made it sound like scoring high enough on the test was the hard part of the process. Their academy looks fairly intense as well, it would probably be fun.

Oh, the bacon on the burgers at Nic's is amazing. I hope I didn't go there for the last time.

Heaven?

I am now back in Oklahoma City for my interview tomorrow. I got in this afternoon and sat around the airport for a little over an hour because I didn't want to have my rental car for more than 48 hours. I didn't eat anything all day, not really by choice but by necessity. I slept as late as I could this morning, and only made it to the airport about 45 minutes before my flight took off. Since I knew in advance that I was going to be hanging around the OKC airport for a few hours, I didn't buy any food at my stop in Denver either.

The plane I flew to OKC in was a little tiny dual propeller plane. They didn't have room for carry-on luggage in the cabin, and they asked us to check larger bags at the gate. Normally when you gate check your bags, you get them immediately upon de-boarding the plane. Instead, they sent them all to a carousel, which meant that I had to leave the terminal where all the restaurants are, and wait for my car outside at the baggage claim. I wasn't too happy about that.

Anyways, I got my car, and finally left to go get something to eat. I stopped at the same BBQ place that I had eaten at last time, hoping to try something else on the menu. It turns out they were having their Monday Night Buffet. All the ribs, brisket, pork, beans, potato salad, coleslaw, hotlinks, and soda I could eat/drink. It was awesome. I went a little overboard with the brisket and pork before I realized that there was fresh apple cobbler and peach cobbler for dessert. I painstakingly cleaned my plate of the BBQ, and got a small serving of each cobbler. I figured that since I was already stuffed, I wouldn't be too impressed with the cobblers. I was wrong, they were awesome and I wish I would have eaten a lot less meat and a lot more cobbler. I'm in my hotel room right now wondering if I'll ever want to eat again. Boy there are some good restaurants out here.

After my interview tomorrow, I'll be driving to San Antonio in my Chevy Cobalt rental for a CPAT orientation on Wednesday. It's a 7 hour drive. When that is over, I'll immediately get back in the car to drive back to the OKC airport and hope I make my 7:30 pm flight.

The food makes the hectic schedule worth it. Totally.

Eat at Nic's

We watched an episode of Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives during one of our visits to California. One of the restaurants was in Oklahoma City, a little burger shack that might be able to squeeze 15 people inside. It looked really good. I was hoping to get to go during one of my trips. The last time I went to Oklahoma City, I was just getting over strep throat and a greasy burger wasn't sounding too appetizing.

I did my physical agility test today. When I was done, I drove straight over to Nic's. It was around 11:30 when I showed up, and there were people waiting in line outside to get in.



It didn't take long to get in, and I asked for the fried chicken special. They were out. There were a few people inside that were eating it, I must have just missed it. I got a cheeseburger instead.



There were just 2 guys behind the counter. One cooking, and one taking orders, bussing tables, and refilling drinks. I learned the hard way that if you order bacon on your burger, you've got to tell the guy making the burger as well as the one taking the order. The bacon looked so good, but since they were so busy trying to keep up, I didn't want to bug them to get my order right. I'm way too polite sometimes, I'm sure it wouldn't have been that big of a deal. I've been kicking myself all day now, thinking about 2 strips of thick bacon that I left sitting on the grill.

Conversation with Emery

Me: What are you doing?
Emery: I guess I pooping.
Me: You're pooping?
Emery: Yes I pooping. You change me?
Me: I don't want to change you. I don't like poop.
Emery: Yes you do.


It now smells in here. I guess I'm going to change a diaper. It doesn't mean I like it though.

A Cute Bunch of Grapes

Jenn tells me I'm in charge of putting up the videos.

Emery was pretty cute in her purple grape outfit. She really didn't want to put it on, but as soon as we told her she was going to get a lot of candy she halfheartedly went along with it. After she found out how easy it was to get candy, she got really excited going from door to door.

We all had a really good time.