Not that long
ago I mentioned how I hoped to be more positive here in the future.
Unfortunately, September hasn't gotten off to the best start; I'll
avoid most of the reasons why, except that (as typical) it's too many
little things happening in too short a timespan. I can say that the
way this entire area in Florida reacted to Hurricane Dorian finally
making its way to near the United States: just embarrassing. Talk
about soiling themselves due to a dopey panic and way overreacting to
nothing. Mail service was screwed up for two whole days, most places
shut down (which did negatively impact me) and even Disney closed at
3PM. Ridiculous as the models made it clear by then that it was no
threat at all to the area around Orlando. It briefly rained that
afternoon and there was a small rainstorm late that night... the
whole thing was so preposterous, this region soiling its diapers and
freaking out over nothing, as if they have never dealt with any
hurricanes before. I feel awful that Dorian destroyed The Bahamas but
c'mon now.
What didn't
help matters was that I ate at local restaurant Gator's Dockside-not
my first choice, but it's a long story as to how I ended up there-and
this was the first time I had an issue there. Some of the fellow
customers were just gross people, the service wasn't too good and the
food was more mediocre than usual. A shame, yet there is no shortage
of places around here I can frequent again or try out for the first
itme. Thursday was a very busy day... two airport runs! I dropped off
someone in the wee hours of the morning, returned home for a bit then
returned to pick up someone else from the same airport. Of course the
traffic on both trips made me mad but at least on the way there I
stopped at a Target to pick up a limited edition soda: Mountain Dew
VooDew. It has the appropriate spooky labeling and has a mystery
flavor gimmick. I will not reveal what the flavor is, BTW. Also, I
had lunch at the Oviedo Mall, a place I rarely stop at due to
distance and tolls. I had Mooyah, a burger joint. It was quite greasy
yet tasted fine... although the greasiness may explain why it wasn't
bad.
Thursday and
Friday, I had to help someone with something... I won't get any less
vague than that; I was happy to help them out but this did eat up
some time. Thursday night I could have seen the opening of the NFL
season with the Chicago Bears playing against their hated rivals the
Green Bay Packers. I just decided not to pay too much attention and
among other things, I was so tired that night that I dozed off for a
bit. I've talked before about how due to dozens of reasons I don't
really care about the NFL anymore compared to back in the day and
this even applies now to the team I watched when I was a kid as I
grew up in the northern part of Illinois. The game turned out to be
an atrocious contest and in hindsight, I made the right decision in
falling asleep and doing other things rather than focus on that
nonsense.
The weekend,
I was more than happy to stay in; thus, I will mention a
recommendation for a frozen treat presumably many can find at their
local grocery store. Barq's now has frozen root beer float pops and
they are as good as they sound; at least I could end this on a
positive note. The upcoming week, I do have some plans and the next
time I write, the mood should hopefully be more cheery.
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