Generally Discontent

So this is Tampa. Warm weather, palm trees, lots of water, alligators, dumb criminals...it's nice! Been a crazy six days or so, very busy, and I'm only now getting the time to update the site.

Okay, that's not entirely true. I could have updated it any time in the last three days, but I've been busy hanging out with Becky and Mike, generally having a good time. But yeah, it has been pretty busy. I must have spent at least a solid 24 hours riding around in cars since last Friday. So let's see, what have I been doing?

Sunday we went to help Mike's dad some more, finally getting the network going. I did some more of my whole "being useless" thing, though I did go out with Becky to get lunch. After that was done, we hopped in the truck and made our four hour trip down to Tampa. Got to the house around eight and then promptly vegged the hell out.

Becky took three days off, since her birthday was on Tuesday. So on Monday she took me on a little tour of the area, and we went to visit Mike at work. But it was raining and crappy out, so we didn't get much done. On Tuesday, the weather was clearing so we headed to the mall so I could pick up some clothes for the big Christmas party this Saturday. I kinda like the stuff I picked out, but it all looks very metrosexual, and I'll most likely look pretty gay. I'm thinking of just walking around with my wang hanging out and a sign pointing to it that says "HEY LADIES! FIRST ONE'S FREE!" That might do it.

After that, we went to downtown Tampa, where we had lunch and walked around. It's nice to have a tour guide in a new city, to save me from walking around in circles. Though I wouldn't have a problem with wandering around aimlessly in Tampa. It's a pretty nice city, and it looks like there are plenty of historical things to see and museums to visit. Though it did seem fairly deserted. But that's been the case for most of the cities I've seen so far. Most people drive into the city instead of living there, so there aren't a lot of reasons to hang out there. Seems like a waste of a perfectly good city, but I don't drive so what do I know?

We got back home then went out to a Cuban restaurant for Becky's birthday, then came back and had cake and chilled out. I've been playing that damn addicting City of Villains game, and so has Mike, so we've been doing that in the evenings. But that's not so bad - it's very laid back here. They have a nifty house and a spastic corgi named Gibson, and he's just about the cutest dog I've ever seen. And it's a lot easier to handle one dog rather than three, so that's a plus. They also have two cats, Annabelle and Pris, but they pretty much just keep to themselves.

Anyway, on Wednesday, I saw lots of birds! Our goal for the day was to go to this outlet mall so I could get some shoes to go with my gay clothes, but we had a few stops before that. First, we went to a pond where mostly non-native birds hung out, including a bunch of yappy parrots who were green and turned invisible when they got into the trees so I couldn't take pictures of them. After that, we headed toward the Sunshine Skyway and one of the fishing piers nearby.

The two piers are actually the ends of the old bridge that used to span the area, but years ago a boat smashed into said bridge, killing a whole lot of people. It was decided that a new bridge would be build - that being the Sunshine Skyway - and the remaining parts of the old bridge would become fishing piers. And it was done! Or something like that. Anyway, the pier was there and so were we. And so were pelicans! Big fat old pelicans just bopping around, though I couldn't get close enough to any of them to get really good pictures. But it was pretty friggin' awesome, if you ask me.

Finally we got the outlet mall, where I grabbed some shoes and a wallet and lunch. We hit traffic on the way back, delaying us for an hour-and-a-half. And then... Well, that's it! Today I slept in a bit, then spent the day farting around, uploading pictures, doing some dishes, and listening to the next-door neighbor's rooster crowing its head off. Saturday we're going to the Christmas party, and there's a high possibility that I'll be getting a tattoo on Sunday! Stay tuned!

Editor's Note: I just re-read this entry and realized it reads like a 5th grader's "What I did last summer" essay. Christ. I'll do better next time!