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23 hours ago
Date: November 25, 2009 Location: Daytona Beach, FL 0830 I have chastised the lovely state of Florida previously for being a little bit disingenuous in their travel brochure and on their license plates. They do promote this whole “Sunshine State” thing quite heavily. They lie, and today is a fine example of the proof of that statement. I realize that I am to get very little if any sympathy from too many people as I pound away at my blog setting next to an open window enjoying the gentle, refreshing breeze of a tropical morning. There is no snow and there is none predicted in the near millennium. The temperature is in the low 70s and it is yet 9:00 in the morning. But, there is no sun. There is not even the hint of the prospect of a glimpse of the sun in the near future. It is grey, and foggy and might as well be New York except, of ...
2 days ago
Date: November 24, 2009 Location: Daytona Beach, FL 0800 I know, I skipped yesterday, but there is a reason and of courses that is the subject of my blog this morning. We spent the early part of yesterday either having breakfast or doing laundry. Neither of which are very exciting, but they are what was happening at the bus. The lack of excitement is not why I decided against a word tomb. This has never stopped before and was not the sole reason for the lapse yesterday. The reason was that I just did not want to talk about the previous day just yet. Sunday at our house is not so unfamiliar to most people. We are too lazy to get up early enough to go to church most Sundays. We watch a couple of the talking heads on TV and eat our breakfast and as the afternoon approaches we prepare for a day of football. This ...
4 days ago
Date: November 22, 2009 Location: Daytona Beach, FL 0900 Blogs are an interesting place to spend your time. It is an adventure for me on most mornings as I place my laptop on its platform called my lap and I contemplate as to just what it is I am going to expound upon this morning. It is a project that I restarted because Connie and I have planned a 25 th anniversary cruise and I wanted to save our memories to our blog. In order to get in the habit I needed to get in the practice of scheduling my time to write my blog. It may be a big secret, but I read these ramblings also and so does my wife. We actually like reminiscing at times. There are days that I arise and just find no good reason to bore myself or anyone else with my garbled opinions I try not to let these days take too much control because as I age and ...
5 days ago
Date: November 21, 2009 Location: Daytona Beach, FL 0930 We are quickly approaching one of those, “I know where I was when …..” days. It is, of course, tomorrow and I do remember very well where I was when the news was delivered to our World History Teacher during class. The fact that anyone in school dared interrupt her class was enough to warn all of the attentive students in her room that something very monumental had happened. When Mrs. Fox returned to her position in front of the class after answering the messenger at the class door she wore a saddened and forlorn face that I will never be able to remove from my memory. She immediately relayed the devastating news to us and promptly suspended class. I do in deed remember where I was on November 22, 1963. The crispness of the pictures in my memory belies the fact ...
6 days ago
Date: November 20, 2009 Location: Daytona Beach, FL 0900 We went to the beach yesterday, now there is a surprise, and enjoyed the beauty of the Atlantic Ocean up close and personal. The beach at Daytona is how this place got its fame. It is even why that overly large parking lot called a raceway is located right in the middle of the city. The original Daytona race was on the beach. Now the speed limit on the sand is much lower. It is posted at 10 mph and most people do a good job of obeying the signs. The single section of the beach that we frequent is about 6 miles long. Yesterday we decided to drive the full length of the beach area and it took us just over an hour. That is 12 miles round trip at 10 mph. It is a worthy use of a person’s time to ride along the waves as they slowly wash ashore onto the pristine white sandy beach. ...
