As usual for me the past few months, there are only a few days out of the week that I talk about anything worthwhile, but for this past week, those two days were definitely worthy of discussion and there is a lot to discuss.
I figured I should mention first the storm known as Tropical Storm Andrea. There was heavy rain and storms on Wednesday and Saturday and it was raining and blowing on Thursday but otherwise it wasn't bad weather-wise. The storm went over the northern part of the state rather than where I live in Clermont. Thankfully I haven't had a major problem with tropical storms and hurricanes since 2004, when I had to deal with FOUR hurricanes passing over Clermont, and there was at least one occasion where you could tell that the eye of the hurricane passed over where I live. Not a fun time. No windows had to be boarded up or anything, but I am glad it's been 9 years since there has been a major threat from a hurricane.
Monday and Tuesday were dull, so let me skip ahead to Wednesday. I decided to go to a place I heard about on Facebook.... a videogame bar! Yes, you heard it right. It's known as Player 1 Video Game Bar, and it's off of 535 in Orlando. It sounded interesting so despite the rain that was going on I decided to make the drive there. I had to deal with the weather and the typical traffic I expect when it's raining, meaning that driver IQ's drop even lower than usual. I got there and I should have known beforehand there was trouble when their official website is their Facebook page and neither on the page nor on the front of the building did it say at what hours they were actually open.
In short, I walk in there as the front door was open, I see that there's a small bar area and there are old arcade games from the 80's... and I get told that they don't open for another 15 minutes (at 6) so I had to wait outside. Um, no. Why should I give money to a rinky-dink joint that doesn't believe in such things as telling their customers in the expected ways when they're actually open? After that rigmarole, I went to the nearby Denny's (always the plan after I left the bar) and had dinner. Despite there being some annoying families there, the food at least tasted good and their limited time only Lemon Icebox Pie Milk Shake was pretty fabulous. After that I drove up to the Sand Lake Road area where I went to the bookstore and then Pinkberry. At least I was able to make something of the day.
Thursday and Friday were dull (aside from a trip to Walmart on one of those days), so let me talk about Saturday. On that day, I decided to do something so I was going to go to the east side of Orlando to visit some places, stop at the new Wawa located on 436, then return to the good old Friendly Confines for the first time in a few months. Well, that afternoon it was a monsoon in and around Orlando and I don't think I've driven through a heavier rainfall in my entire life. It was pretty stressful. I definitely had to go under the speed limit in those conditions, although of course there were other drivers who thought differently. Due to the weather I changed plans and I instead just went to get cheap gas at the Wawa then went to the Friendly Confines. Why not spend some extra time there watching sporting events, listening to the jukebox, have dinner... and drink some alcohol?
Overall, it was nice to stay dry for a bit and have a good time there. I did indeed have some alcohol, eat some chicken fingers for dinner, and for the first time in years I had to contribute some cash to the jukebox so that music would play. I picked out some country-rock since I figured that would be appropriate for the people I saw sitting at the bar, but it was mainly classic rock I picked. It ranged from Bob Seger to The Allman Brothers, Foghat to CCR. I was even “on the nose” and played Riders on the Storm, as it was perfect for the day.
I did see a first at that place... and probably a first for anywhere with me. In the past I've noted a regular customer there who calls himself TUGBOAT. Well, he was there with some pals and as I was eating dinner they decided to leave. I presume they were there for hours, as right by me, one of the people in the party was literally falling down drunk; what I mean is, he literally fell down due to being too intoxicated! They asked him if he was alright and I don't think he could even respond. Finally, after about half a minute they got him up on his feet and the wasted dude had to lean on one of his friends just so he could walk out of there. That may have been the drunkest guy I've ever seen in person. I mean, wow. Even when I got home on this night and had some more alcohol, I was not close to being that obliterated.
Sunday I stayed home and relax, so it's the time for me to say that I'll be back a week from today and as always, I don't have much planned for the next 7 days but I'll find something to do to talk about.
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