I know, I know, I am slacking off again. It's summer what can I say. I get down here and blogging is just about one of the last things on my mind.
Obviously I am in Orlando now and have been for just over two weeks now. I arrived here on the 10th and the drive wasn't near as bad as I expected it to be. I never really got that bored and the trip went much faster than I expected it to.
That following weekend I went to St. Augustine for a Car Show that my dad had his car entered in. The car show was that Saturday and he actually won a trophy for getting second place in the Paint category. On Sunday we took a trolley ride around to see the sites though we didn't do a whole lot of walking since my mom has her ankle messed up. Then on Monday we drove around a little and stopped at a winery and I have yet to find a wine I like but I did learn one thing while there and that's if I do eventually find a wine I like it is probably going to be a dry one instead of the sweeter fruiter ones as the dry ones tended to be better.
Since returning back from the show I have had two golf lessons that have made a major difference in my game (exactly how major I don't know yet). Yesterday I went to the dentist only to find that I have four new cavities but they assure me that all four are small. Never-the-less I have to go have them drilled so I have to do that next month. As for my wisdom teeth the dentist says that I have to go to an Oral surgeon to see if they need to come out. I looked at my x-ray of my teeth and though I am no dentist or oral surgeon from what I could tell only one of the four teeth looked like it would almost definitely need to be taken out because it was sitting side ways instead of straight up and down like the other three are. So anyway at some point I have to make an appointment with the Oral surgeon to see what they think.
We are trying to set up for William to fly down here and spend a couple weeks down here with us while his sister is at their dads. Since he has never flown on a plane before he is afraid to go by himself so we are trying to work out cost to have Cathy fly down with him and then have her fly back home a few days later. Luckily since William's step-mother works for AirTran he can fly down here free so that helps reduce some of the cost. So we are working on that because he wants to come down.
Totally changing subject, but I have to admit that I have lost pretty much all respect for the citizens of New Orleans. They re-elected Ray Nagin when he is at fault for the majority of what happened there during and after Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately though 52% of New Orleans residents either are unintelligent enough or idiotic enough to not realize it. The man screwed up big time and got rewarded for it. I mean when you wait until 24 hours before a Hurricane hits to issue a mandatory evacuation what do you expect to happen with a city that size(especially when you have been warned repeatedly for the last few days to get the people out). I mean New Orleans is a major city and there is no way you are going to get all of its citizens out in 24 hours and I guarantee half of the deaths in New Orleans are directly connected to that discussion. I could go on and on as there are many other examples of how he screwed up (like the busses for example) but its all pointless now. I feel sorry for the 48% or so that realized it. Anyway enough ranting about that.
You know people complain about the US spending but if you look back at some of the things the US has spent money on over the decades there is some really stupid stuff we have spent it on. Perfect example when we were first going to space they discovered that a pin does not work up there due to the lack of gravity. So what does our wonderful nation do it decides to spend thousands or millions of dollars on researching how to make an anti-gravity pen when all we had to do all along was just use a stupid pencil.
|| Vespere Hesperian 1:29 PM
