I
will go out of order this time and discuss Wednesday before I get
back to the usual chronology. Unfortunately, Wednesday was a pretty
rotten day; no, nothing serious happened... it was too many bad
little things that happened which made me want to forget all about
it. It was not even that I had to drop off someone at the airport
then a few hours later pick up someone else from the same airport...
as it gave me the opportunity to kill time in the area and I finally
saw Toy Story 4. Now, I never wanted there to be a 4 as the first
three are very good to great and 3 ended perfectly. Still, I went in
with an open mind as seemingly everyone else loves the movie so why
would I feel any differently? Well... I hated it! I presume everyone
else will vehemently disagree yet I can't lie here and be phony about
it.
Toy
Story 4 was obnoxious instead of funny, most of the characters of old
were barely in it, I couldn't stand most of the new characters, and
it did not even feel like a Toy Story or a Pixar movie-instead it
felt like something far inferior. Let's not even get into how I felt
about the ending or how it betrays the key character in the
franchise. The audience seemed to think it was great, so that's
something... me, I'll pretend 4 never happened. The rest of the day
was full of garbage.-horrid driving on busy roads (including nearly
getting sideswiped by some tool who had to be on his phone) and other
things I'd rather not get into. When the highlight of the day was
eating at KFC for lunch and trying out their Mountain Dew Sweet
Lightning... MD with peach and honey was odd, albeit not bad. At
least I had a tasty lunch while the muzak in the background was light
jazz covers of such things as The Isley Brothers' Harvest for the
World and Billy Joel's The Stranger-that was a pleasant surprise.
Back
to being chronological: Monday the 1st I did nothing at
all... Tuesday was a different story. Not only did I get a
haircut-more so than usual, it was needed-but I also ate at a Beef
'O' Brady's as my last visit was like a few years ago. The food was
fine-the entertainment from two of the people there was better. They
were older gentleman, both highly intoxicated. Apparently, they paid
their tabs then decided for another beer, which neither really
needed... especially once you hear that they both drove him
separately. One guy left without paying his tab so the other talked a
lot of crap about him-not that he'd remember anything he said about
his “friend” the next morning. From a bartender, I overheard that
the dude who skipped town usually is a slob and leaves all sorts of
trash on the floor-even chicken wings!
After
the Wednesday I had, staying in for Independence Day was A-OK with
me. At least I watched some fireworks on TV and Friday evening I got
to see figurative fireworks in Kissimmee, as I saw my first ever
kickboxing event live; I haven't even seen too much of it before in
general but I was hoping for a good time, and that's what I got.
GLORY is a major kickboxing promotion that has events across the
world and they came to Florida for the first time with their GLORY 67
event. Last month I heard about it and there was a discount for
tickets so I couldn't turn that down. It still wasn't the cheapest
event... I did look at it as a 12 fight event which started at 6 and
ended after 11 so I did not feel ripped off. No complaints with the
crowd or any sort of silly drama; one of the fighters in the main
event was Petchpanomrung
Kiatmookao-yes, he was from Thailand.
The
weekend I stayed in: as it was rainy anyhow, this was perfect. What
was bad was news I heard on Saturday... a person involved with the
pro wrestling scene since he was a kid (Shannon Rose) passed away. He
experienced a malady of health problems for much of his life but when
he could he did various tasks in the independent wrestling scene down
here, like publicity and announcing and that sort of thing. I have
talked to him before, albeit a long, long time ago. That news did
make me sad, for certain.
When
I return next, the ratio of good to bad days hopefully will be
improved.
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