If you’re driving around Tulsa lately, you’ve seen them. Orange cones, orange signs…lots of reflective orange and white…our semi-permanent state colors. It seems that we’re always under construction.

Yesterday, several major projects started in and around Tulsa. From work on the inner-dispersal loop around downtown to construction project that has blocked off 101st street near Memorial along with other construction along Memorial — Tulsa better be prepared with patience for these oncomming projects.

Our streets are bad, they really are. They’re full of pot holes, cracks and in dire need of repair/replacing. We’re spending $75 million on these projects that will be split up in three different phases. We’re in phase one right now.

During this phase, construction workers are working on the east and south legs of the IDL. This is required first since it will be the major detour route when the “actual” construction begins which should take around two years to complete. During this and the next phase, be prepared for lane changes, lane closures, as well as motorists filled with road rage. It’s going to happen, so just be ready and try to keep a positive attitude.

Remember, all of us are inconvenienced by our own growth and needs as a city.

Do you enjoy the essentially overwhelming amount of caffeine and sugar during your daily dose of “stay-awakes.” People drink all sorts of caffeinated beverages throughout their day: coffee, energy drinks, supplements, and those mysterious “five hour” bottles. Needless to say, everyone has their flavor but these guys have flavor and style..

Started by Justin and Broc during a random conversation at their office — redbullroundup.com emerged. The website is a collection of photographs that automagically feed Flickr.com content tagged with ‘redbullroundup’. The website has numerous videos created by the guys behind the site and their close friends.

“Typical Wednesday hump-day is no fun for most of us. With work being spread out during the weekends from on-call status, freelance, and projects — hump days are just ridiculous. We decided to move the middle of our week to Thursday,” said Shattuck (myself – HA HA). Thursdays at 3PM local time (anywhere and everywhere you are) is the current time that the redbullroundup goes down.

There have been photographs submitted by women, men, teenagers, and even infants! With just about every photo accepted — you’re almost sure to appear on their homepage redbullroundup.com. The videos appear on Justin’s youtube.com channel, often, yet randomly throughout the week.

If you would like to get involved or just check out the stuff taking place — check out the website redbullroundup.com.