I have to
start this out by talking about the weekend first, for an important
reason. Saturday's plans went by the wayside, although it may be for
the better considering that I left the house at Sunday morning at 3
AM (!) to drop someone off at the airport in Sanford. More on that in
a bit. There was a local pro wrestling show right in the city I live
in; it was only about a 15 minute drive to the building so it sounded
like a nice deal; besides, I was invited on Facebook to attend.
Well... back in the day when I used to go to these sorts of shows all
the time, events starting late were unfortunately commonplace. Times
are different now, I have far less tolerance for such things as the
doors not even being open at 8PM when the show was supposed to start
at 8PM... and I did not know anyone else in the crowd milling about
outside, so... I left and went home, which at least was a short
drive.
I know people
will get mad at this but I have to be transparent here. Hopefully it
won't be like what happened around 5 years ago or so, when another
event did the same thing and was going to start real late so I just
left... I got called either a liar or incompetent by someone who
claimed “Why no, the show did not start that late!”, which was
patently false. Pro wrestling these days... it has devolved for a
variety of reasons so that's why I don't watch modern wrestling at
all as how it used to be done was MUCH more entertaining. Anyhow, the
trip to the airport went fine and on the way back I stopped at a
Denny's, which was less zany than expected for the wee hours of
Saturday night. Sunday I did not watch the Chicago Bears game that
was in London. Now, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is brand new and looks nice at least from description and photos, but I am glad I did not bother due to the now-common
unwatchability of the National Football League (this includes an
atrocious call, and it went in favor of the Bears and I can admit it
was hot garbage) & oh yeah, somehow Chicago lost to the much
inferior Oakland Raiders.
Now back to
chronology: the preceding week had some different sorts of events,
along with familiar ones. Monday, I went and got a haircut; I know I
say this all the time but it was much-needed. Tuesday, I went to
Lakeland to visit more than one place, although the one I'll mention
is The Brass Tap, located at Lakeside Village. I've literally parked
next to the place plenty of times yet this was my first time inside
the joint. I've been to a Brass Tap in Orlando before so I knew what
it was all about. I had craft beer as I saw parts of the baseball
Wild Card game where Milwaukee blew it late and lost to the
Washington Nationals. The one brew I'll bring up is the pale ale with
the awkward name Toppling Goliath XHOPS-Onyx; Toppling Goliath is an
Iowa brewery and that drink had a strong fruity taste although that
was fine by me. Before that I stopped at a Dollar General Market, as
I had never been to one before and it was literally on my way to
Lakeland. It is a grocery store and a standard one, except that the
prices are pretty good, although the selection is naturally not as
great as in a Publix or Winn-Dixie. I was in the rural Polk City so
no surprise at the sight of a teen girl (w/ her mom) walking around
the store barefoot!
Wednesday I
saw the other Wild Card game at home, where the Tampa Bay Rays
defeated the Oakland Athletics; I am glad they are doing well even if
fans don't usually show up at Tropicana Field. Before that, I had the
Pretzel Bacon King burger at Burger King. By modern BK standards that
burger was fine, although the chain is not as good as they used to
be, to be frank. They also had mozzarella sticks and yeah, don't get
those as they are laughable compared to the ones you can find at many
chain restaurants. In addition, a Mensa member ordered food after me
at the counter and yet when order 90 was announced and the bag was on
the counter, this jackass never looked at his receipt or even the
receipt taped to the bag and instead start pawing in the bag before
he realized his stupidity... Florida, everybody.
The only
other event worth mentioning is that I actually had to make ANOTHER
airport run, on Thursday; that was unexpected yet I was happy to do
this task. When I return next Monday... I know that several
theatrical films will be discussed.
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