What I Saw Today

So today, I went to the Ormond Beach post office to have them put a new lock on the mailbox. It seems my landlord, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, and used this place as a place to stay when he came up for different cars events at DIS, never got a key for it when he bought this place four years ago.

Anyway, left the post office and heading home, I saw this pristine 65 cadillac hardtop sedan.

It was sweet!!

Correction Corner

James and Ed just dropped by. My first visitors and James told me I will see alot of him this summer. It is nice to be near family.

James's school, here Beachside, had an award presentation and James just missed being in the National Honor Society. James told me, I guess I did something wrong, John-John. I told him to play it straight, you get to do a lot more stuff by being good because you are good, you get away with more and, also, your Mom will let you hang with me.

Anyway, for whatever reason, Ed hasn't shared this blog with him so I pulled it up and showed him the post on his and my visit to the pits at the Rolex24. He read this post while his Dad told me what I am going to be doing on our next project.

As James was reading this he peppered in, "I remember that brake job". "Yeah, that was you two sitting on that golf cart". It was fun.

But he pointed out a mistake I made, a big one.

It was not the Nissan pit stall, and they did not win class.

It was Mazda.

My apologies to everyone and, especially, to Mazda and its race team.

Thanks for the show, MazdaSpeed.

Mothers Who Drugged Us

Everytime I go on vacation to somewhere I have never been, I pickup all the free publications found at airports, grocery stores and in the paper boxes scattered around town to find stuff to do in the area. I did this on a trip to Las Vegas several years ago with some good friends. But that is another post.

I did the same thing when I moved here. Today, I picked up a Lifestyle Magazine, Your Shopping and Dining Leader. In it there is a letter, by Michael A. Grant, I found pretty amusing.

I am going to try and post it here. Let's see

http://lifestylemagazineflorida.com/daytona/mayjune08/21.pdf

Click on this link to take you there. It is in the top left corner.

Chuckled when I read this. It reminds me of my upbringing and had the same effect on me.

Custom Cars

I never have really cared for Custom Cars. I mean, everyone has the right to express their individuality and create designs, I just never really cared for them all that much.

Instead, I like classics like these

But sometimes, even creativity runs aground. I especially like the first one. My brother sent it to me today and prompted the idea for this blog. Enjoy.

What I Saw Today

As I mentioned in the previous post, I was driving around checking out parts of my new hometown. As I was driving down Riverside Drive, I looked over at the Halifax River, also the Intercoastal Waterway here, and this is what I saw.



Yep, a tugboat pushing a barge, either up or down stream. I don't know yet which way the current flows, but I will find out. Anyway, this barge is headed south. The tall bridge in the background is State Road 40 upon which I travelled from Sl-Ocala to my new hometown. This view is from the mainland looking east. The body of land is referred to as Beachside vs. where I am standing, Mainland. The buildings in the backgound are beachfront condos.

I was driving down Riverside and pulled into a waterside city park and walked out on the pier and took this pic. The last time I remember seeing one of these was many, many years ago when I took a trip with my Dad to Cape Girardeau, Missouri and we saw a bunch of these on the Mississippi River. I just stood on that pier watching that barge go by and thought good thoughts about my experiences with my Dad and wouldn't change any of them. Miss you RGL.

Jacked Up Trucks

While cruising around my new hometown today, I spotted these two trucks. They are not good enough, in my mind, for the What I Saw Today series and especially when you see my post on that.


It seems some people are never satisfied with a stock truck. They have to "Jack Them Up". We've all seen them. You know giant tires, loud exhaust, loud road noise from those tires. You know.

Anyway, over on Riverside Drive, unfortunately not Riverside Avenue as REO Speedwagon sang about in my youth, I saw this Toyota ForeRunner all Jacked Up.



Wonder how soon I'll see one of these in the same condition?

Ocala vs. Ormond

Both of these towns begin with the letter "O" and are in central Florida, both have their good parts.

Here are a few views of Ocala

This is a guy selling an old washing machine out of the back of his truck. The piece of plywood has "4 sail" written on it. Ironically, the vacant building in the background used to house a used appliance store.

In the five years I have lived in Ocala, this sign has not been changed.
This truck used to be in the vacant lot next door.


The marque on this Burger King read, "PLALREVEAL FOR THE SECERT 1MILLION"

and a few of Ormond Beach.



Glad I made the move.