January 2011
14 posts
Ice Cream Gangsta
Having a lasting relationship with one’s neighborhood ice cream man is a heavy indicator of the weight he or she holds in that area.
Presence in a foreign place is respectable— to travel somewhere so frequently that one is recognized as a “regular.” However, it takes skillful positioning for one to be recognized by a foreigner traveling into one’s own territory.
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No Respect
Clink, clink, taptaptap
The immutable sounds of my front door being molested came slithering up the stairwell.
I went into preliminary offensive mode and walked to the window, surveying all parking spaces for suspicious vehicles that would convince me to take defensive measures. None were seen, so I bolted down the stairs, almost naked, into the dark foyer.
In a well-practiced maneuver, I...
Fake Hurricane
A storm’s been brewin’ all day. For Florida, it’s not typical to make a big deal of a sudden storm with fifty mph sustained winds. Everyday the weather alert icon in my web browser is lit. I don’t even check it anymore.
This storm is different because apparently it’s rotating as it sweeps the state. Until the weather guy explained that the rotation spins off...
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I left one of my good sweatshirts at work over the weekend and now it smells like musty jeans. Another reason I should use only my designated cubicle jacket but still will not.
Green Swamp
Went hiking at the Green Swamp in North Lakeland today. It’s close to Dade City and Zephyrhills. An easy seven or eight mile hike— mostly wide trails and flat land, muddy a quarter of the time. Some trails, pretty much all of those pictured, were wide enough for trucks. I don’t have hiking shoes… I just wear a pair of Reeboks I got online for ten bucks after shipping. ...
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Lost in Taintsville, FL
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Life Lesson
If you drink an unknown substance floating on top of hot chocolate you ordered from a huge coffee shop chain, you will spend your first free non-work day shelling out every type of sample that exists.
Lesson: Always look under the lid before consuming a beverage handed to you by a disenchanted barista.
Now I’m going to Animal Kingdom with my girlfriend to reward myself for not crying at...
Irene is cooking the strongest garlic I’ve ever smelled in my life. I’m choking like it’s “Backdraft” in here.
I asked what kind of garlic it is.
“It’s organic garlic.”
Not sure what that means, but I like it.
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I Believe In The New Year
Ended the old year with a dinner at Dexter’s with Irene. That place is a secret goldmine of good food. Entrees are under eighteen dollars, but everything on the menu is more memorable than expensive places. I had pan roasted chicken with orange cranberry glaze, on pine nut quinoa tabouli with apple celery slaw. (It’s obvious when you get a plate of food that was thoughtfully...