Good morning,

Welcome to my Mommy Blog, Out of Bounds Okie.  My name is Robert.  I’m a 30 year old married eagle scout living in Oklahoma City, which is the capital of the greatest state of the union, Oklahoma.  I have a legitimate degree in advertising, but I work in the oilfield because it pays the bills.  I live in a condo called the Hemingway.  It serves as our base camp, from time to time I may refer to it as the Hemingway.  I didn’t make up the name of the base camp because Ernest Hemingway drank whiskey, smoked cigars or was a good writer.  Some guy in the 80’s named a condominium development (pronounced apartment) that because he thought it would attract tenants who thought cursive writing, green paint, privacy patios and speedbumps were rugged, sexy and a symbol of success.  We have covered parking and a pool so nyah.

I did, however, make up the name Out of Bounds Okie.  It’s not a nickname that I gave myself, it’s the name of this blog.  The first thing you should know about myself is that I don’t take things too seriously.  I used to get headaches as I child because I “worried” about things and tended to get my superman panties tied into a shit-stained bowline knot.  If you don’t know what a bowline knot is, don’t worry, we’ll cover knotsmanship at some point.  I got carted off to the very best doctors in the 4-state area to determine what type of cancer I had.  As it turns out, the cancer I had was stress.  I proceeded to learn the best way to get rid of stress is to not worry about things I can’t control, do stuff and laugh.  The purpose of this blog is to cover my adventures, travel, fishing, camping, shooting, tips for daily life, gear I like, gear I hate, peculiarities, humor and first and foremost but at the end of this sentence: relieve stress.  I am not politically correct.  Political correctness is for Tulsans and all of the other people who think they live in Dallas.

Over the course of this blog, I will review several products.  All of these products were purchased with my own money.  If you have a product that you would like me to review, please, by all means, send it to me.  You should know that I will be brutally honest and make fun of your product at every opportunity.  If your product is good, congratulations, dozens of my friends and family will know how awesome your stuff is.  If your product sucks, prepare for me to destroy it.  As in physically obliterate your product into 1000 little pieces of shit.  This is where the stress relief part comes in.  It’s 2015, nothing should exist that people pay hard earned money for that doesn’t work properly.  You’ve been warned.

– R