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Florida
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10-12-2022, 10:06 AM
Going to Florida for a wedding. I can’t wait to come home.
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
10-12-2022, 10:25 AM
Two trips in one year? You are quite the gadfly. Say hi to the Queen's mom while you are there. Don't say gay.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
10-12-2022, 01:50 PM
Remember to pack your galoshes...and maybe your snorkle.
...too soon?
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
10-13-2022, 04:11 PM
Airport was full of people. I hate it.
Airplane was full of people. I hated it. Florida is full of people. Hate them, too.
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
10-14-2022, 12:25 PM
Breakfast was too salty. Hated it.
Met many of the groom's family from London. Lovely people. Went shopping/day-drinking in downtown Lido Beach. Full of people. Hate it.
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
10-14-2022, 12:48 PM
Are you in the wedding party?
Could you assuage your pain by visiting the Dali Museum?
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
10-14-2022, 11:04 PM
Not in the party; that’s for young people. Had a hotel/beach cabana late lunch. Ran into Dino, who joined us. Beach is very beautiful in that White Sand sorta way. People in/around the pool look like Tiger King cosplayers. The skin cancer out here must be weighed in pounds. Lots of plastic surgery, lots of fleshy white people. I’m woefully under-tattoo’d. Long discussion of how Florida is in the south, but not Southern. H’s mom & her family are from the Everglades, and H spent her Summers in Miami for a chunk of her childhood.
Went to meet/greet. All out doors, weather cooling off to pleasant temps. Fencers grouped together, predictably. Some tension when Greg M showed up, as he/Dino ended on bad terms. Polite was achieved, but Dino retired early. Bride-Fam had a sing-a-long planned on the beach. Bride-Fam are super nice, but hippy-liberal-christians. Bride-Dad is a pastor, Bride-Mom was also, but left church due to hypocrisy of adherents & clergy. Because: Florida, some yokel was already on the beach preaching gospel with a mike & a speaker in front of a self-made driftwood cross. Failing sunlight cut the song list short. The sunset was spectacular. The party retreated to upstairs bar/restaurant. More booze & food followed. Both Bride-Fam & Groom-Fam are genuinely nice folks. Booze did not change that. Tomorrow is the Big Event. Afterwards, H has planned a Waffle House run.
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
10-15-2022, 05:21 AM
Dino as in Dean H? Seems like there is a story there.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
10-15-2022, 09:03 PM
Dino as in Dean H.
The Big Day arrived, but since everyone involved is sensible, nothing early was planned after the night of drinking. H got up and had breakfast and solitude while I was snoozing. I got a call from Lenny (Leonid) my long-standing, made-from-iron Moldovan co-coach, asking if I was going to beach. H goes to beach, runs into Lenny, I join them a few minutes later after yakking in the lobby with the Groom + Groomsmen (all foil fencers). We’re on the Gulf side, so no waves, warm water. I was wearing shorts, flipflops, t-shirt and gauzy overshirt. Was embarrassed about my “Beach Body” until I took a look around at Florida Man & Florida Woman. Turns out I’m a marketable slab of yeti. Lunch by the beach, return to the room, dress in “Beach Formal” and we’re off. On a wedding trolley. One of those that are often filled with “Woo!” people. No “Woo!”ing at that time, however. 30 minutes later, we reach the venue. Old mansion converted to a nature preserve. Has it’s own pier and forest. House is on the water. Humid as fuck. A little rain on the drive over, no rain/partial sun for ceremony, rain starts again 15 min after ceremony ends. Rains off and on throughout the rest of the evening. Florida caterers are familiar with the problem, so not really a problem. Ceremony was actually good, setting was lovely, food was… Vegan. After burning the venue to the ground and filling the mass graves and sowing the ground with pink tibetan salt, we took the early trolley back to the hotel, where we are waiting for one of my fencing cronies to return nfrom the party so H can introduce me to the late-night Southern ritual of goin’ to th’ Waffle House. If I survive, I’ll post again.
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
10-15-2022, 09:22 PM
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
10-16-2022, 12:08 AM
Waffle House obtained. I was not killed. Veganism making me gassy. All will pay (if they are downwind).
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
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