Monday I did
not do anything of note; Tuesday was different. I finally tried out a
location in Dr. Phillips I had known of for awhile now: Chronic
Tacos. It's from California (naturally) and the name does make me
giggle. The food did thankfully taste fine; in the same shopping
plaza was a Tropical Smoothie Cafe so I moseyed on over there and I
realized it must be a company policy to not have enough employees on
duty at one time. Except for that, it was nice to have a drink along
with a snickderdoodle cookie. On the way back I stopped at a Trader
Joe's as my last visit to one was months ago-naturally, the place
hadn't changed one bit. While in there I saw a young lady with a
purse... I wasn't able to compliment her on it but I imagine others
have marked out over her “Handbook for the Recently Deceased”
purse; it's a nice Beetlejuice reference.
Thursday, me
and someone else went out for dinner and as they hadn't been to the
new Sunset Walk area of Kissimmee, that is where they went. They also
hadn't been to a Ford's Garage before so that was the location for
dinner. That went fine, along with me stopping in an IT'SUGAR store
for a few minutes to look around, note that some of their items could
charitably be called “expensive”, and still purchase a few
fairly-priced treats. Friday... it was why I did nothing during the
weekend. No, Friday was not a disaster and in fact I had a nice
dinner. It was just that my plans after that were changed due to
circumstances beyond my control. I'll explain that in a bit.
Friday I had
dinner at a Joe's Crab Shack; besides not having eaten there in
months, it's been too long since I've had any shrimp, so that is what
I did. No complaints with the meal, the drink or the mostly older
music I heard while I was there. I then got on I-4 (where the traffic
was far less heinous than I expected for an early Friday evening) and
ended up at the AMC in Altamonte Springs, the site of my disastrous
Joker screening experience. Now, I think it'll be awhile before I am
there again. You see, I was gonna attend an early screening of Knives
Out; yes, this is despite the director bearing at least some
responsibility for The Last Jedi not feeling like a Star Wars
movie... or being a good movie in general. The cast being tremendous
was enough for me to give it a shot; unfortunately, when I got there
I discovered the screening was outright canceled, due to a power
outage! Thank goodness it was at an AMC so the A-List app was used
and the only issue with me not seeing it last night is that sometime
in the next few weeks I'll have to see the movie when I have free
time and the inkling to check it out one day. Not that I was
delighted with these circumstances, or how aggravating the traffic
was driving back home and how I may have encountered an impaired
driver or two.
As previously
referred to, the weekend I did nothing. I saw nothing of the Chicago
Bears game, where they barely (or maybe it should be bearly) beat a
terrible New York Giants team. Thanksgiving, the entire nation-and me
at times-will have to witness Chicago play against another bad squad
in the Detroit Lions; I know for a fact that will be a contest which
will NOT be aesthetically pleasing by any measure. When I return next
Monday I'll mention that and other activities.
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