TODAY I ate Lunch at P.F. Chang’s China Bistro for perhaps the 2ND time in my entire life. We have one at The Falls in South Miami-Dade, but I’ve never eaten there. I want to though. My brother claims that we ate at one on the Las Vegas Strip several years ago. I believe him. He has a MASSIVE Memory – just like me.
I like this place. It’s The Cheesecake Factory of chinese restaurants. This is upscale dining at a rather affordable price. I enjoyed a delicious harvest spring roll as an appetizer and then the beef with broccoli lunch bowl as the main entree.
YUMMY ! The service was outstanding, and I can’t wait to check them out at The Falls for a MASSIVE Dinner !
‘An hour with one friend is worth more than ten with strangers.’
I agree. I can’t wait to get back home to Homestead to resume living Life with all of my friends !
I’ll see you crazy cats bright and early this Sunday morning !
If it’s Tuesday night then you just know what I’m up to – no matter where in the world I may be located at:
1. I don’t have a cold yet. My 9TH cold in 13 months has not yet materialized. Give it a few days. It’ll make its presence known. I guarantee it. North Texas is full of germs. So are airplanes. I fly back in one this Saturday afternoon.
2. I’ll be flying to South Florida this weekend on the 21ST anniversary of my very first flight to South Florida (from the Washington D.C. area). I landed at MIA on the 30TH of November in 1987, and I arrived so late in the night that it wasn’t until the wee hours of the 01ST of December that I actually arrived at my new home at (then) Homestead Air Force Base. I was 20 at the time. That was more than a half a life ago.
3. Remember this family vacation of a lifetime that I identified in an early-September edition of these ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ ?:
Magnificent National Parks - Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, And Nevada
It’s not gonna happen. The trip has been cancelled due to a variety of logistical reasons. Now we’re planning a replacement trip for sometime during the Spring, Summer, or Autumn of 2009. I cast my vote for Bermuda (which I just mentioned this past weekend on the ‘Saturday Night Retro’). Maybe we’ll take a 5, 7, or 9 day cruise from the U.S. to Bermuda and back ?
4. Yesterday was quite the ‘Tex-Mex’ day for me. For Lunch we ate at Chili’s (not my choice), and then for Dinner less than 5 hours later we ate at a place called Mexi-Go. I delighted in the ‘Guadalajara’. That – mis amigos – is a chicken enchilada, a cheese enchilada, a grilled chicken fajita taco, rice, and beans. Oh yeah we enjoyed the standard appetizer of chips and salsa at both joints. I can’t deal with anymore Mexican food until I return back home to the Mexican restaurant capital of South Florida – Homestead 33030.
TODAY for Lunch I ate at Panda Express in Homestead Florida, and as usual there was nobody else there but me. I don’t know how that place stays in business. They must be totally packed later on in the day when I’m not there. The’re apparently so busy that Florida City (where all of the food is) is getting its own Panda Express just 4 miles down the road.
I enjoyed the Chow Mein, Orange Chicken, Broccoli Beef, Cream Cheese Rangoons, Fortune Cookie, and Sierra Mist.
Here we go with this week’s Fortune Cookie Message:
‘A partnership shall prove successful for you.’
Be sure to catch the next exciting edition of ‘The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club’ LIVE from Dallas Texas. You won’t regret it Confucius !
1. It’s Veterans Day all across the great United States Of America, and it’s the Federal Holiday each year that means the most to me personally. I stopped everything that I was doing at exactly 11:11 AM this morning. I checked out the big three cable news networks – Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC – and not a single one of them had LIVE coverage of any Veterans Day ceremony anywhere. What a shame.
2. On both Saturday and Sunday I drove more than 80 miles each day. That’s about 4 times my daily average. It was an exhausting first-half of my long holiday weekend, and a more peaceful and quiet second-half (yesterday and today). I actually felt a real subtle hint of a possible 8TH cold in 12 months coming on this morning. I took an extra 500 MG Vitamin C tablet to fight this fight because I don’t have time for another cold this week – or next week.
3. This morning I went to Publix – where shopping is a pleasure – about 10 minutes after they opened for business shortly after 7 AM. I did my grocery shopping for the next couple of weeks. After that I went to McDonald’s to pick-up breakfast. You get faster service when you actually get out of your car, walk in to the joint, and order the food face-to-face to an actual human being (rather than a drive-thru speaker).
4. I did a little mini ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ this morning. I walked to and from the clubhouse near the main entrance of my neighbourhood. That’s a little more than a half-a-mile round-trip. I had to do my annual vehicle registration there. Prior to last year a lazy me would have driven it. Nowadays I see a mile or two and think ‘Walk-A-Thon’. I saw a new cat during this mini walk. The feline looked at me from afar and sighed to himself or herself, ‘Friend – Not Foe’.
5. Ford Championship Weekend is just two days away at our Homestead-Miami Speedway, so you just know what that means – tens of thousands of out-of-town tourists and NASCAR fans galore descending on our home turf spending their hard-earned money in our stores and restaurants. Show them respect. Be nice to them. Welcome them to our fine city. Invite them back for more fun.
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