bar bill - back home - the end :)

beach run

this is vacation, dont you know?

• day 3 has commenced and morning has broken
• did another 9 mile ride and i feel quite spoiled that i can take up such frivolous activities on a daily basis
• did my 4 mile loop again last night which is terryfing on dark roads that are 50 mph, need to try and knock that out a little earlier, id rather ride in traffic than in that kind of darkness
• hope to hit a thrift store or two today
• hope to go to the beach tomorrow
• feeling good and fine

how i wish...

Took a laundry basket downstairs to smooth out the sand in the volleyball court then wrote our message in the dark with the corner of a cardboard box.  Was difficult to take a photo from 5 floors up through a screen with little light but it's intelligible.  How I wish, how I wish you......

ironcase lives on!

now having survived 5 trips back and forth! got the bike assembled but still need to test ride, im sure it will need a ton of tightens/loosens to be comfortable and 'right'.  still, everything is intact. 

feeling some deep phisolophical feelings upon my arrival today.  thinking of some really weird and lonely years in here and also thinking of the good times with others, and now this year totally different.  typically exhasting travel day today with numerous flight delays eventually ending in about 90 min behind schedule.  got a great price on a rental car and the car itself is very comfortable.  took a wild backroad route from the airport that avoided all highways AND tollways.  hit the pool and dropped a regretful $90 at the bar on drinks and kind of half assed foods but it had to be done in light of all the madness of getting 3 people from chicago to orlando with their belongings.  so on all fronts it was a success.  time is limited before i keel over from exhaustion.  tomorrow start fresh and really start to lay it down properly.

The end

One of my more impressive bar bills for the week..........

Had a very long day, checking out at 10am for a 5pm flight, you do the math.

Finally got home about 8pm, drank 2 beers and hit the hay.

There is an announcement on the shuttle at MCO that hasn't changed in years.  It says 'Whether you call central florida home or your favorite travel destination......'.  I am somewhere between the two I reckon.  See ya in 358.

$18 sunglasses from CVS lasted 4 days.  Nice.  Real nice.

My ongoing struggle to finish a bottle of hot sauce in a week, still unfufilled.  But close.

Last day waking up with one of my best bed heads ever, and Jen wearing my extremely ill fitting sunglasses to go get coffee.  Aren't we a couple lookers.

tuesday!

Went to bed pretty late last night, took hours to recover from just a couple drinks in the late afternoon.  A crappy nap followed, and after that more hours of feeling low.  Finally got it together and took a ride to Publix on Vineland in the dark to get some brew.  I think I was in the store for about 5 minutes total and grabbed two 6 packs of CCB.  The ride was a bit treacherous but I made it back intact.  Had a really fun night and got giddy drunk and went to bed about 1:30am I think.


I had a 9:30 'wake up call' (I don't need such things but they insisted) to remind me of my sales presentation at 10:30.  It was really irritating but I dealt with it. Not interested in spending $13,000 but I am interested in the $125 they gave me to attend.

Got back to the condo and had some cheese, salami and crackers.  Then I had 3 beers and took a Norco and got really lifted.  Ended up taking a weird nap (as can be expected given the cirumstances).  Woke up and did a 12 miler to the third Publix of the week to get some more cheese (swiss, for patty melts, on deck tonight), a bottle of champagne for my lover and also a piece of lemon pie.  Took a wrong turn and ended up turning an 8 miler into a 12 miler.  The extra mileage is welcome but my seat post anchor and also my handlebar stem tilt got loose.  Not loose enough to stop the bike (I did have my tools on me) but enough to annoy.  All tightened up now.

Got back and had a few beers, sat in the whilrpool for a while, now back up here to have some more drinks and watch the Cubs.  Again patty melts on deck and I'm starved.

Tomorrow going to play music trivia by the pool and also mess around in the arcade.  Thursday Rusty Spoon is a definite priority, maybe for dinner.