The first
event I'll mention is that real early Tuesday morning I had to
make... yet another airport run. At least it was Orlando
International so the drive wasn't as long, but even at that hour the
airport is chaotic and everyone drives like they are clueless, in a
variety of different ways. It was also foggy for part of the drive
there and back. Tuesday night I streamed the 1976 movie Midway, w/ an
all-star cast. That was a first time watch and it was entertaining.
That was done because Wednesday night I saw the 2019 Midway, which
wasn't as good yet because 2019 has been a terrible year for movies
overall and the new Midway did not make me mad, I'll be kind and say
it was fine. '76 is better overall and is focused on the commanders,
while '19 is more about individual soldiers & their heroics.
The rest of
the week wasn't that exciting, except for what happened on Friday
night... which caused me to do nothing during the weekend except for
one moment I'll mention at the end. Thus, I will mention a few random
things first. The movie theatre I saw Midway at required a little bit
of a drive and I hadn't been there in a few years. Well, it's
completely remodeled and it does look nice, which I imagine you have
to do in order to compete as a small independent chain. They had
something I did not even know was a thing: Pepsi Spire. It's their
version of Coca-Cola Freestyle; I wish it was in more locations as
its main gimmick is adding a few different flavors to their regular
sodas... thus that is how I was able to have a Mist Twist with cherry
and vanilla. Before then I had a gas station dinner and it went about
as “well” as expected... my error. Also, a few days this past
week it rained, so it was appropriate that one time I heard November
rain on the radio. The Orlando radio stations... all of them are
terrible overall and their variety is quite limited in scope, so I
try not to listen to them. The only thing of note is when one does a
Friday night 90's deal as not only is it nostalgia, but the music
sounds great compared to the Autotuned tripe we get now.
Anyhow...
Friday night, things did not turn out well. I went to a Walmart (I
know, some will say that this was my big mistake) to pick up a few
items. I attempted to pay for it with a Walmart gift card I got the
previous time I was in the store. I use the card to purchase items in
the store and to fill up at their gas stations, whether it be Murphy
USA or their proprietary branded gas. I say attempted as the woman at
the cash register was dumb and couldn't get it to work despite
multiple different attempts. I realized I have seen like 10 different
ways that those cards have been scanned-including me having to swipe
them at the credit card machine-but this clown couldn't have called
over someone with a higher IQ to try and do it right. I couldn't
raise a stink about it as people were behind me in line and I
couldn't say with 100% accuracy the card actually had cash on it
(it's Walmart so the cashier from the previous occasion might have
screwed up putting money on it) so I just paid via credit card
instead. Of course, I then went to the gas pumps to fill up... the
card did have 100 bucks on it and that person was a blithering idiot.
Figures.
Should people
be surprised that I would be happy to stay in for the weekend to
avoid the traffic and running into incompetents like that? The only
thing I did was on Saturday, where I got dinner from Wawa; that went
fine and I saw that the Freestyle machines had a limited edition
“Raspberry Magic” flavor for Coca-Cola. I couldn't tell you how
it differed from regular raspberry... at least it was decent and I'll
have to try the Sprite Vanilla Frost. As for the Bears game against
the LA Rams... it was not watched by me and that was the right
decision as they lost 17-7 and I would have received more
entertainment from watching paint dry for three hours straight.
Nothing's on
the agenda for the upcoming week... yet.
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