Oh, what an eventful past 7 days I had. Last Monday I mentioned in my last blog what I did, which was go to the dentist. So, onto Tuesday. It was the birthday of someone I know (and I'll leave it at that) and the group decided to return to the local Cracker Barrel restaurant. I won't speak for everyone but my meal was good; I had breakfast by consuming some large pancakes.
Wednesday, what a wacky day it was. I did quite a bit. Thankfully the rain wasn't too big of a factor with Hurricane Arthur being in the Atlantic region and thankfully not coming anywhere near Orlando. I went to two different Barnes & Noble stores to see which Criterion Collection discs they have. Yes, that's those fancy high-brow and/or foreign films (usually) and usually the discs are on the pricey side so when they are 50% off each July and November many people online are happy. I did get some discs; they're of obscure stuff, at least to the common person. I ate at a Wingstop, a restaurant I've been to a few times before. They make pretty decent food so I am happy to go there once in a blue moon. Indeed on this occasion it was a fine meal I had of boneless wings and fries.
The last time I was in the Winter Park area I noticed that they were building a Trader Joe's. I never saw word 1 about it on their website so I was actually did not fully believe it when someone told me they were going to build two around Orlando. Turns out that someone was right. It opened just last weekend and I rolled the dice and tried to go in it despite knowing it'd be a madhouse and real crowded. It only took me a few minutes but I did finally find a space. I went in and bought some items; yes it was a madhouse and crowded but not as bad as it could have been. I then went home. Oh, and there were two notable cases of horrible driving. I noticed some idiot driving rather rudely and poorly in general. Believe it or not for no real good reason he gave ME the finger. Later, I had to honk at someone; again he was driving poorly. That guy turned into a psychopath (he stuck his head out and yelled; he looked deranged!) and he almost rammed his car into mine. No kidding. I very well could have called the cops on him but he floored it and got out of there (this happened on Interstate 4) so I was nice and did not make the call.
Thursday and Friday were rather boring. I did not go out to see any fireworks. I've said this for years now but it isn't the same as when I was a kid and every 4th my family and I would go to a nearby town to see the night sky get lit up colorfully. I was actually worried for myself Thursday night as I misunderstood something and almost had a panic attack as I thought something got screwed up badly... but in actuality it didn't. I was embarrassed as this sort of thing rarely happens and this wasn't the first time this year. I can't explain it but I'll try not to worry about it. It's not like I'm losing my sanity... at least I don't think I am!
Saturday, I had a busy day. I left home in the mid afternoon to return to the Altamonte Springs area (I was just there on Wednesday) in order to see a foreign film, one that is highly regarded. It is the Korean film Snowpiercer, which has some Hollywood stars like Chris Evans, Octavia Spencer and John Hurt. Controversy happened when the American distributors wanted to edited it for American release. People got pretty mad about that. They didn't do that, but it isn't a wide release so there was only 3 theatres among all the theatres around Orlando which were showing it, and the best one was the AMC in Altamonte Springs, so there I went. There were definitely more people there than I expected for a film I didn't think that many in the general public knew about. Unfortunately, despite the popular online opinion of it being great, I thought it was pretty awful and insufferable, for the most part. I don't know how many people care for a detailed breakdown so I won't deliver one here but I just thought it was bad and it made zero logical sense.
After that I tried to go to a sports bar but it was too crowded so I found another one (the Ale House restaurant that is in Winter Park) and I had dinner and a beer, which were at least fine. What wasn't fine... the weather. It was like a monsoon. When it's pouring rain, you likely know what happens with signals from satellite dishes... by this point I just did not feel great and it wasn't just that movie. I said “the heck with it” as who knows how long they'd be experiencing those problems and I didn't want to drive around and try to find a place to watch it.
I just decided to relax at home and from what I heard, aside from a great main event and the Vine-length fight that Ronda Rousey had (which I actually did see after the fact) the show was weird and skippable, which is unfortunate as it was supposed to be one of their biggest shows of the year. Sometime in the future I will watch that main event.
Sunday was a day where I did nothing. That was satisfactory with me. I do have to mention two spam e-mails I found in my Yahoo Mail folder recently. The first one had a real vulgar plug for Viagra but it made me laugh. I quote, the subject line is “Viagra, The Quicker Dicker Upper”. Amazing. Unexpected was getting a message in Cyrillic. I used Google Translate and it was a Russian message asking for money. The translated name was Danish Khan, which did make me laugh.
Come to think of it, the past week for me wasn't so good. It was what I mentioned already and some little things; I don't want this to sound like a pity party so I know that when I return a week from today I'll have a cheerier happier blog. No way could I have two lame weeks in a row.
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