Yes, I have to comment on this phenomenon. I knew it was an interesting audio trick once I heard it as “Laurel” when I had my headphones plugged into the laptop and without headphones it was “Yanny” via the laptop's speakers. As for the preceding week, it being rainy pretty much the entire time did have an impact on my plans, especially on Friday. Last Monday, I ended up at Universal Studios CityWalk, as it had been awhile since I was there. It was largely the same; a new Voodoo Doughnuts opened there recently but there was too long a line to even get into the establishment. Eventually I'll try it out. It rained off and on both going there and getting back home but there was no precipitation while I was at CityWalk. For only the second time ever I went into the Bubba Gump restaurant; I am not a fan of Forrest Gump personally but the restaurant's food is fine. For something different I had their peeled shrimp and that was a good choice. Otherwise I just walked around there for a bit.
Tuesday through Thursday were pretty uneventful; Wednesday I went to the Longhorn Steakhouse with someone I know as the neither of us had been there in a long time. That did go fine; the traffic there and back was less than fine. While I don't mention it, note that the way people drive here is never not terrible. Friday, I wanted to do something different. I went to Lakeland and I hoped the weather would be OK enough to where I could see some college baseball action... the opening round of the NCAA Division II baseball playoffs, to be exact. Well, it did not rain at the neat ancient stadium, but the lightning... there was some in the area. In short, there were games going on all day and evening but the terrible weather played a lot of havoc on the tournament being played; I only got to see the last few innings of the game where Nova Southeastern (of Florida) beat Motevallo (of Alabama) and I ate dinner at the stadium during a lightning delay; I was going to see another game but when a second lightning delay happened before that even got started... I left.
I'll consider the money I paid to get in to be a charitable donation and next spring I'll see a full game in that stadium, I promise. I feel bad for all the teams and their fans that the weather here was so poor. I am not sure if I'd eat the stadium burger again... don't ask why I say this! The day was not a total loss; at least the temperature was not too hot while I was outside and on the way there I unexpectedly went in a Walmart. You see, I usually have a Walmart gift card and while sometimes that's used for purchases in the store, it is also used at their Murphy USA gas stations as the cards give you a 3 cent discount per gallon. When I got to that Walmart to fill up, those gift cards weren't working at the gas pumps (I later filled up at an Exxon), so I instead went into the store and purchased a few random items; I was glad I did not have to make a separate trip later to another Walmart.
My weekend was rather dull; I did nothing at all. I did not care too much about the royal wedding-I felt the same way about the last one also-and it was still poor weather. When I return the afternoon of Memorial Day, I know I'll have a lot more to discuss.
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