I Just Don’t Get It…
Why would a grown man wear a tshirt with an illustration of swordfish? I snapped this picture while waiting for my food at the Five Guys Burgers in Boynton. (I apologize for the quality of the picture). It just makes no sense to me why an adult would wear a shirt with illustrated animals. Is this guy a commercial fisherman? I don’t know. I could see someone wearing this type of shirt to be ironic (see wolf shirt). This did not seem like the type of guy to pull that off. So let me just tell you this, please do not let me see you wearing a shirt like this or I will lose all respect for you.

Talk about doing absolutely nothing all day long. This day has been one long nap broken up by breakfast, lunch and dinner. After my early morning bike ride and breakfast I went for my first nap. This was a nice relaxing break in my bed for most of the morning and early afternoon. Waking up around 2:00 p.m. it took me another hour before I could make it out the door. At this time I went out for lunch and had myself a turkey muffuletta sandwich with french onion soup. Mmmmmmm. Back to my apartment where I made myself comfortable on the couch, put on my Wall E dvd and fell asleep. This nap lasted until 8:00 p.m. when I was able to motivate myself to clean up the apartment a bit and then prepare myself some dinner. Warming up some leftover pasta from Saturday, I had myself a nice dinner and then back onto the couch for some additional zzzzzzzs.

I read in the local newspapers today about a mischievious bear that was caught roaming the suburbs twenty minutes from where I live. It got me to wondering what I would do if I was to stumble across one of these furry beasts here in the Boynton Beach. I looked it up online and wanted to share with you…

If you happen to spot a bear out and the bear sees you, there are a few things you need to do so the bear will not attack, kill and then eat you.

1. Talk softly, calm and slowly. You want the bear to identify you not as a threat.
2. Back away with your arms and hands raised above your head, waving them slowly. This will make the bear think you are a larger animal and hopefully make it go on its merry way.
3. Do not make eye contact with the bear. It will see this as a threat.
4. If the bear decides it is being threatened and charges you, DO NOT RUN. Stand your ground when it is charging. Bears will commonly “Bluff” charge before they will attack.
5. SLOWLY walk backwards away from the bear.
6. If the bear continues to charge and is going to attack, lay down in a fetal position. If the bear senses no retaliation, it may see you as not a threat and leave you alone.
7. If the bear does not stop attacking you, you need to fight back. Punch for the eyes and snout of the bear.

This story was orignally posted on my MySpace account in August 2007.

Hollywood to Hollywood (Florida to California)
August 15, 2007
This year sees me leaving from a different home to visit my sister in Hollywood. After relocating since my last trip, I now depart from the lovely Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood airport in sunny south Florida. My flight is leaving early in the morning, so I know this is going to be a very long day.

Fun Day To Travel!
August 15, 2007 – Morning
Flight out of Florida was nice, with a stop over in Phoenix before moving forward to L.A. It was an interesting scene at the sundries store at the Fort Lauderdale airport. I was stuck in line behind a man that was trying to haggle with the clerk at the store. He wanted an ugly ass discounted fort lauderdale t-shirt marked down more because the was a ball point pen mark on the back of it. The shirt was $7.99 and he was not paying more than $5.00. He wanted to talk to a manager after he was denied by the clerk to “deal”. All I wanted was to buy my damn Airborne. Eventually they let me pass, but this guy was not leaving without fighting for the extra $2.99 off this shitty shirt.

Hollywood Death March
August 15, 2007 – Afternoon
Arrived at LAX around noon, grabbed my luggage and headed to the Super Shuttle to take me to my final destination. (Only we were not heading there just yet) The shuttle did not want to drive just me to Hollywood so we circled the airport again and again and again. I was pleading out the window with people to just get in with us. PLEASE GO TO HOLLYWOOD. The driver finally gave up and we went on our merry way through oil fields and neighborhoods I did not know existed. All of this to avoid the parking lot that was the freeway. Continue reading