Unfortunately, an illness got in the way of me doing some things I was hoping to do. Still, I do have some things to write about. First, let me talk about what I listened to last night. Earlier in the year I was at Downtown Disney and I was leaving when I saw a huge line of people lined up at the House of Blues; I had no idea who was performing. I later found it was a bunch of bands I had never heard of before, the main one being some choades known as Imagine Dragons. I did not check out any of their songs until last night when I stumbled upon their tune Radioactive; it's so terrible it'll give you radiation poisoning! I know, I've thought for a long while that most modern popular music was real bad but it seems to be getting more and more true. I much prefer the unrelated song Radioactive from 80's supergroup The Firm, with Jimmy Page and ItPaul Rodgers.
Anyhow, late last week I started to feel not so well and was less than 100 percent (I now feel almost completely healthy), so I was not able to make it out to Megacon, a convention for geeky people where you get to dress up as your favorite fictional characters (no matter how obscure), you can buy all sorts of bric-a-brac, and get autographs from fantasy/science fiction/horror people. I've never been to one of those before; I've seen plenty of pictures to know it would be quite the experience. Maybe next year... at least I saved some money as going there isn't cheap.
At least I still have a few things to mention, as a parent has a friend down here from the Midwest; the friend has been here a few times before. That has allowed for me and them to go to a few different restaurants. Monday night, it was a trip to the Red Lobster. A coupon made it a wise choice to go there. I had chicken strips, mozzarella sticks, and some skewered shrimp. Pretty tasty. Tuesday night it was off to the Longhorn Steakhouse and I had my almost always of a burger and fries. Thursday night, we went out to the Benihana restaurant on I-Drive. While I could have done without the annoying bratty kids we had to sit by, otherwise it was of course a very tasty meal; it better be, for the price.
As I have free time, let me explain what a “wolf ticket” is. I had never heard of the term before an MMA fighter used it while talking about his fight on the UFC show this past Saturday. The guy is insane and is usually illogical, by the way. It means a verbal insult so to sell one is to run your mouth to bluff or threaten them, and to buy one is to accept their bluff. As for Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips, yes this is a legit product. I have never had grits before as I only moved down here to the South from the Midwest almost 9 years ago, as amazing as it is to me it happened back in '04. I have a feeling I wouldn't like them, whether in regular form or as chips from a bag. Anyhow, I discovered that the product just sponsored a NASCAR race; talk about living up-or down-to stereotypes. And speaking of the UFC pay per view, I was able to watch it all. It had its ups and downs but I was happy with how the main fights turned out so I can't complain.
As I have more free time, let me mention that I am still getting plenty of spam e-mail. Only some of which as of late has been real noteworthy. For example, the totally random phrase “Natalie Portman Heads To Paris To Search For The Perfect Wedding Gown”, but there's also been the typical vulgarity, such as “Have The Pecker Of Her Dreams”, which sometimes does make me laugh.
Yesterday, I felt well enough to go to the open air mall known as Winter Garden Village. I went to a few places, including good old Planet Smoothie. As I walked there I experienced another incident that I swear could only happen to me. They had a PS corporate vehicle there, a car that visits locations all across the country. Thing is... the vehicle was turned into a giant banana! Yes. It is an open-air automobile you can drive around. As I was in there, the driver came in-he wore a safari hat, because why not?-and he explained that an employee could ride with him in the giant banana, which indeed did happen and that was an amazing sight.
I'll be back a week from today. As I don't have to deal with the illness any longer, I should not have anything that will impede my plans. While I don't have anything planned yet, I'll stumble into more than one thing as I always do.
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