Here's a recap of what I did this past week, a week where I had my 32nd birthday; I can not believe I am that old, but it is true. Let me be out of order and start off by talking about that awards show from last night. I haven't really cared too much about it for at least the past few years now; talk about a bloated pompous affair, and of course all the screw-ups they make. Well, once I heard that no-talent idiot who has created some all-time terrible cartoons and a stupid talking teddy bear movie, I now knew for certain not to check it out! However, it came to my attention that someone I only know from the online world was going to do a webcam broadcast of the awards show where he and his pals would rip apart everything, and hey, that sounded like something perfect for me.
That broadcast they did, though... it started off fine as they riffed on all the stuipd red carpet crap. But, about 15 minutes into that seemingly 9 hour long opening with William Shatner that was SO horrible and so bad, the video cut out and the account got suspended because, get this, “the owner of this content has reached his bandwidth limit.” So in other words, the U Broadcast website is God-awful and a pathetic joke, although still better than Seth MacFarlane! I'll be honest, the only audio of the show I heard was the first 15 minutes of the opening-where the webcam guys ripped it apart like I would for being awful-but that was more than enough for me to know just to half-watch the show on TV while I listen to music on my laptop. Once I saw who won most of the awards, I was reminded why I've been apathetic about the Oscars for awhile now.
Oh, and I have never found The Onion to be all that funny. The most obvious jokes are made and besides them not being amusing at all, they are presented in the laziest most uncreative of ways; before they deleted it, they had a Tweet up where they said that 9 year old Quvenzhane Wallis was “the c-word”; I won't say the word they actually used. Charming people they are. I don't want this to be too negative so sometime in the future I'll have to talk about how I am really tired of everything that Jennifer Lawrence does, so onto what I did between last Monday and this past Saturday...
Monday the 18th was boring, but Tuesday I went to Winter Garden Village as I needed to pick up a few items from Staples, which I did. I then was in Barnes & Noble for a bit before getting a beverage from good old Planet Smoothie. Wednesday, I was going to get a haircut as I found a coupon to get one cheap, but when I went to the place, they were obviously closed down. Leave the memories alone! I had been going to that place (which had changed names and even locations) for like the past 8 years now so I'll have to find a new location to go to. I don't need a haircut right away so it is not a pressing matter. To make something of it, I went to the local CVS to pick up an item that someone I know was looking for.
Thursday I did nothing of note, which is OK as Friday (everyone get down on Friday) was my birthday. Talking about Friday and Saturday will be a nice way to end this blog. I haven't gone downtown since early November, when I went to the theatre in downtown Orlando to watch Skyfall then I was going to go to good old Mako's, only to discover that my favorite nightclub had closed down. I figured, though, that a nice night to make my return would be the night of my birthday. I parked downtown and I decided to see what was at the place formerly occupied by Mako's. It's now “Native Social Bar” or something along those lines. It's now more of a regular bar/club and it's cleaned up and not the sleazy and trashy place it used to be; problem is, I enjoyed the sleazy and trashy aspect! At least it's fine as what it is now. I stayed around to have a drink and I tried the Fireball; no, it's not the Fireball from Revenge of the Nerds, where people spit out grain alcohol onto a torch of fire and they literally blow a fireball. It is cinnamon-flavored whiskey, and it doesn't really taste like whiskey, which is fine by me. After that I went to a place I heard of randomly, a new place known as Ghost Bar And Lounge.
While I was there I had quite the time. I saw two people around I know from elsewhere. I don't know them well, just to clarify. One now works there and the other one was there as a fellow customer. The latter is someone who used to work at the Clermont Buffalo Wild Wings. That was from late '10 to about April of '11. I'd brag about how she remembered me, but... to be honest, I am a distinctive person so it probably isn't too much of a surprise. It was nice to see that lady again; I only briefly chatted with her as she was talking to some other guys and I presume that one of them was her date for the night. The other person is someone who I recognize from working at a particular restaurant. I guess this is where she works now. I walked around, listened to the music, and sometimes paid attention to the NBA game they were showing on their TV's. At first, a cover band was there. They did songs from the 80's to today and in a sort of cheesy way, they were awesome! Hey, they played tunes like Livin' On A Prayer and Don't Stop Believing. Works for me. After that someone on a laptop was playing songs and again it was the type of tunes that I enjoy.
I was sitting there when suddenly a lady invited me over to sit by her and her friends. Yes. I didn't believe it at first but I made my way over there and I did in fact meet SIX different ladies. Heh heh heh... to be honest I only really talked to one or two of them (and I do wish I remembered more than one or two of their names) but I am extremely flattered they made such a nice gesture. It was great to meet all of them and I hope that isn't the only time I ever run into any of those girls, but... well, I hope I do get to see them again. They left after too short a time to go home and that made me sad. They left before I could get any of their Facebook addresses, for example! At least some random Asian guy took some pictures of me with those ladies for his website; he's not the first Asian guy around Orlando who has taken pictures at the clubs to post on his website. Hopefully those pictures do get posted eventually as you know they will be on my Facebook page in order for me to do some humblebragging. So yep, Friday night was pretty great and a nice way for me to celebrate my birthday.
Saturday, the only thing I did was go to the local Buffalo Wild Wings and I do have my usual complaints from that place, those being that the people working there have no idea what they're doing when it comes to figuring out which sporting event should be on each TV screen, and all the idiots who are there to see the shows. Both of those factors were in full force on this night. That said, the undercard of the pay per view had some quality moments and the same goes for the pay per view itself. It was the UFC debut of the infamous fighter known as Ronda Rousey. I don't like her personality at all but that has nothing to do with her fighting skills. The main event was more competitive than expected, so that is good. Plus, I can tell you that BWW's limited time only Cinnamon Squares... pretty great.
When I return a week from today, my next blog will likely not be as entertaining as this one. But I'll try my best for it not to be a dull boring blog either.
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