The preceding week was a more entertaining one than usual. Monday and Tuesday weren't
too eventful (except for losing power for almost 2 hours late Tuesday
night! I wasn't pleased by that although at least it wasn't during
the hot muggy day) so I'll mention something that happened to me for
the first time: a fire ant bit me. Yes, for a creature so tiny, it
does sting like an SOB. It was literally only one of them, which I
did not even see before it ended up biting me on my right forearm.
Thankfully, after only stinging for a little bit, that sensation went
away and it was like that never happened. I am glad I did not stomp
on one of their nests or accidentally do something else which caused
a swarm of them to attack me as that would be a nightmare; I saw
online that cold soap and water would help for bites and at least for
A bite, that seemed to do the job.
Wednesday, I went with
someone to a restaurant I went to late last fall, Saltgrass Steak
House. Back last year, I visited their location on Vineland in
Orlando; Wednesday, it was their second location on I-Drive, at the
building that formerly housed Brick House Tavern & Tap, which was
a decent place I ate at a few times. It's not like that joint just
opened so I presumed they would have their act together... I was
mistaken. The service wasn't great (that includes the food taking
forever to come out, and it wasn't too busy at the time) & my
burger was more burnt than medium-well-at least the person I was with
had a better time and they loved what they ordered. The Texas theme
there was great so I will say that for now people should go to the
one on Vineland and maybe in the future the I-Drive one will be
better.
Also on Wednesday I
received via Fed-Ex what I ordered a few weeks ago: the Stranger
Things promotion that Coca-Cola is doing. Yeah, it's overpriced yet I
wanted to be guaranteed to have New Coke, as even living near Orlando
it'd be unlikely to stumble upon a pop-on vending machine briefly
offering it this summer. At least the packaging was nice and those
two small bottles of Coca-Cola and Coke Zero looked neat... the New
Coke was the one I was interested in. I put one can in the fridge to
consume on Thursday. That's what I did and... meh. Note that I like
consuming all sorts of caffeinated sodas and I don't have a
particular favorite, aside from avoiding most of the generics as
generic cola usually is mediocre at best. I don't remember having New
Coke when I was a kid as I was 4 when it first came out and I am sure
my parents weren't fans of it so whether it was New Coke or the
rebranded Coke II in the 90's, it was never purchased.
Having it in 2019, I was
not a fan of its taste. I get why some don't care for Coca-Cola's
unique properties and the tang it has; to me that's never been an
issue and New Coke not only seemed like a worse version of Pepsi, it
also came across as a lousy generic soda. I understand why some would
like it-it is not for me. I'll save that second can to drink sometime
down the line, even if that is weeks away from now. Friday I did
nothing and the same goes for Sunday (except for wishing my dad a
Happy Father's Day) so let me talk about Saturday. I went and saw
Shaft, the new version. In the past I have seen the 1971 original a
few times but never the sequels. Friday night was the 2000 movie of
the same name, which I wasn't a fan of although I found out on
Saturday night that it's better than Shaft 2019.
Before that I ate at a
small fast food chain new to me called Salem's Fresh Eats-their
offerings include seafood, subs, gyros and chicken. My meal was fine
so I will have to visit them again in the future-their closest
location is in Lakeland. As for Shaft 2019, I was not a fan. First
off, the movie was a comedy, and one not too funny to me. Samuel L.
Jackson (Shaft II) suddenly has an adult son (Shaft III) and the
movie was made by old men in Hollywood woefully out of touch as all
this did was crap on millennials and how they are “soft” and love
such things as respecting women, coconut water, texting, are
anti-gun, and use terms like “cis-gender”. III is made out to be
a wuss because this is how he leads his life, while his incredible
crude dad is awesome for being politically incorrect; it's an awful
buddy pairing sort of movie, and Richard Roundtree doesn't even show
up until deep in the final act. This was also incredible crude and
vulgar; between that and this not having memorable villains, original
music or action... I was not a fan. For what it's worth, the rest of
the crowd at the screening seemed to love this.
It has rained all of June,
which is fine except for dealing with Florida drivers in wet
weather-yes, still amazingly clueless. Saturday had some heavy rain
so no surprise I saw the aftermath of a few wrecks and of course some
people still drove like A-holes despite the conditions. Hopefully I
don't have to deal with any of that in the upcoming week.
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