After a few days in Daytona Beach, I'm back. Heard it rained in Lee County. That's good. We needed it. Weather in Daytona was unreal. 80 degrees nearly every day. Hate it for all the folks here who had to toil in this 50-degree high junk.
Here are a few random thoughts upon my return:
-- Saw the Atlantic Ocean. Yep, it's still there.
-- Had the best clam chowder of my life at this seafood joint in Ormond Beach.
-- Played the worst round of golf in my life at Pelican Bay. How can I go from the 90s to a 110? And that's with a handful of mulligans. I believe there was more water than fairway, which is bad since I couldn't keep anything straight. Price for 18 holes on this very nice course was $27. As I've said before, golf is less expensive in Daytona than it is here and the courses are relatively the same.
-- Gas prices here aren't much better than in Florida or south Georgia. Saw gas for $2.96 somewhere near Albany. Got gas for $2.99 in Daytona. I believe prices here are lower, but not considerably.
-- Got two lottery tickets. Haven't checked if I won. If so, have a nice life.
-- I learned that children mind much better on trips when Santa Claus brings them a PSP to play with.
-- With all of the new restaurants and stores going up, why not a Fazolis? Fast food Italian would be great and I'm tired of having to drive all the way to Valdosta to get my fix.
-- Renting a vehicle for a 1,000-mile trip is better than using my own. My cars are old, so it's better to pile up the mileage on someone else's. Prices aren't bad either.
-- Heard it's going to be 18 degrees or something sick like that here sometime this week. That just great. One day I'm in my shorts in Daytona. Now I'm in a ski jacket in Siberia.
-- I must thank Jaime Lakin and Susan Lemley for tending to the newspaper's opinion page while I was on vacation.
I'm going to get back to college football now. It's New Year's Day and I'm supposed to watch football on New Year's Day. It's a rule or something.
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