With a name like Takee Outee, it has to be good!

I am back. It has been a while. Sorry. Been kind of busy, though, you would not really know it. I was wondering what I should rant about today....the Olympics....Global Warming, or is that a pretext for some One World Government......Iran....China.....Chinese in Iran........I just do not know.

Well, we did have a long "Family Day" weekend around these parts. It is nice to have a Monday off in February. Then it dawned on me, if I were back in university, it would be Reading Week. In fact, 25 years ago today, I would have been in Florida with WG just getting over the sleep deprivation. I think it would have been the night that I got my free t-shirt at the Candy Store for 10 bucks. It was a lousy V-neck, but it was "free", along with a crappy buffet.

It was on that journey that I learned how much fun it is to drink at 9:30 in the morning. On our morning flight down to Ft. Lauderdale, I had been up since 4:30am. At 9:30, the stewardess (flight attendant? waitress in the sky??) asked if we wanted a drink. I was shocked. I told her it was 9:30 in the morning. She rationalized it for me thusly, "If you were home, would you get up at noon?" My reply was "yes". "And what time did you get up for this flight?" I told her. "Then it is like 5:00 to you, is that too early?" I responded the only way I knew how, "Make it double."

Getting the rental car, while buzzing, was a real blast. We got a red Chrysler Laser. It was a cool car for a Chrysler. The cup holders, it was 1985, fit a can of Budweiser perfectly. Now, I would not do that now, but then it seemed fine. I know, I was lucky and I know it.

It was a fun trip, full of drinking and sun. The biggest lesson I learned was the love of the chicken fried steak and eggs at Denny's. I have been eating that shit for 25 years now and loving it. I recommend it highly, especially with a side of grits.

The other lesson is this, if the Chinese take-out place is named "Takee Outee", the food is probably really shit. It was. Then again, how could we pass up the chance to eat at a place called "Takee Outee". We paid the price, but the memory lives on and both of us can say that we ate at Takee Outee. Isn't that what it is all about?

Ciao!