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If the title sounds random, I apologize, but that was my weekend.

I've had my share of dull weekends here and they don't bother me for the most part. I look at my time here in Oklahoma as developmental years, even more so than college. So, if I'm hanging in on a Friday night, it's not the end of the world.

This weekend though, none of that.

Friday night was a pinata-smashing, strong margarita-drinking good time. It's rare that I get to spend quite so much time with co-workers because of our schedules, but that was fun.

Saturday was a mixed bag of awesome. Gina and I took a walk at Martin Park, which is something I've been wanting to check out for awhile. Nice short trails will probably make for a good jogging locale this summer. That's my main goal for the summer is to see a bit more of the state parks, so starting with a small OKC park was a good start.

From there, we went to Pops in Arcadia, which is a national tourist attraction on Route 66. They have hundreds of different kinds of soda. Hundreds. Go back to when you were 13 and feel that rush of excitement as you re-read that sentence!

So, we each grabbed a half-dozen options (all glass bottles) and cracked open a couple out at the car as we waited for "Dave, party of two" to ring across the speaker.

We took a few pictures (I'll see if I can add those later since Gina's never on Facebook) and met this organization that is running throughout the entire country. I'm sketchy on the details, but I'll do a blog post on that later too, pretty cool stuff.

All in all, cheap (but pretty good) food, lots of soda and my first buffalo burger and I was quite satisfied. I wish they had more "family stuff" a la miniture golf or something. There's a TON of land there, so it would be easy enough to build. Either way, when family comes out to visit that will be a number one destination.

After some world class pigging out, we took our mild food comas back home briefly before heading out for some roller derby action with Sarah, one of our station's editors.

Now, I'm kind of ashamed to admit that I saw Whip It in theatres. But, real roller derby is no cliched joke targeted at semi-rebellious 13-year-olds.

We saw the Tornado Alley Rollergirls - one of our resident roller derby teams in a double-header. I was impressed. It took a little bit to catch on to the scoring system and everything, but those girls have to get bruised head to toe by the time they're finished.

I will say, it wasn't quite the counter-culture I was expecting. There were plenty of piercings, fake blood and tattoos, but there were also plenty of AARP types (presumably with daughters competing) and a section of what would equate to make cheerleaders, though they weren't much different than your typical sports fans.

There were about 1,000 people there and it was a packed house. Overall, a really cool atmosphere that I wouldn't mind getting a little bit more familiar with.

Among my more favorite roller derby names were: Elsie D. Poundsystem, Wicked Sick (love a good Boston reference) and Lady Gore Gore. Creative and tough bunch there.

That was about it for the night as some later plans went awry. But all-in-all, one of the busiest weekends I've had in awhile.

I'll have more thoughts later this week on the 24 finale and maybe I'll comment on the LOST finale, which is the only episode of the series that I watched.