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Food Health

Beef O’ Brady’s: It’s What’s For Lunch

TODAY at 11 AM if you were looking for me then you had to look no further than the Homestead area (just outside of the city limits) Beef O’ Brady’s location. I ADORE that place !  I eat there about once or twice a month, but I should eat there much more often than that because the food is hot and delicious, they have a large menu selection of food available, you get big portions of everything, and customer service is excellent and fast. You pay a wee bit more than other places, but it’s all worth it. The ambience is near-perfect as far as I’m concerned. It’s neither too big and noisy of a joint nor is it too small and uneventful. It’s the perfect size, and I always feel welcome and comfortable there – even when I eat there solo.

I enjoyed a half-pound cheeseburger and curly fries today – two foods that I rarely eat nowadays ever since my MASSIVE heart attack several years ago (just kidding). Where’s my Lipitor ?  Oh yeah – I already took it for today. I’m obedient like that.

Catch me at Beef O’ Brady’s again next week my friends !

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

You waited 168 hours for this ?  Let’s see if it was all worth it.

1.  Last week was the biggest week in history for this blog. Nowadays we are averaging more than double the amount of unique hits to this blog in a typical Monday to Sunday week than we were less than 3 months ago. Today (Tuesday) became the biggest Tuesday ever in the history of this blog before I even turned on my computer this afternoon !  THANK YOU FRIENDS !

2.  Speaking of friends Pastor Travis called me ‘clueless’ in his blog today, and it’s the nicest complement I’ve received all day. I’ll accept the complement because I did a much better job late last night before I went to sleep talking all about Trav to God. Trav is one of the most sensible persons that I have ever met in my entire life / Life.

3.  Paul – There’s no need to be jealous. The person that was going to take me out to Lunch for my birthday today fell ill and had to postpone it, so I ended up eating ‘grocery store grub’ from Publix. Actually it was rather decent tasty – chicken tenders, macaroni and cheese, and juicy corn. YUM !

4.  Yesterday (Monday) I went to Panda Express (spur-of-the-moment decision) for Lunch and I received poor service. As usual they had little to no selection of foods available to choose from for the various entrees. I completed and submitted a survey online stating my dissatisfaction with their Lunch service and product. We’ll see if it gets any better in future visits. If the customer service and the food selection doesn’t improve then I’ll just stop going there.

5.  Speaking of the Atlanta Bread Company in Homestead I have received no follow-up communication from Corporate Headquarters in Smyrna Georgia as of yet – more than 80 hours after the fact. Apparently they have no Assimilation / Follow-Up Director.

6.  I was extremely shy as a kid. I didn’t talk a lot. The reason why is because when I did talk nobody was listening and nobody cared to listen. I pretty much lived through a sad and miserable childhood. My little brother was one of the first persons in my entire life that actually listened to what I had to say and was genuinely interested. If it weren’t for my little brother then I may not be here today.

7.  One of the highlights of my day is looking out my personal hurricane-proof window at work that faces due east and watching the sun rise above the horizon. I adore the daylight. I adore chasing it. It’s morning again !

8.  I spent close to 45 minutes at Office Max yesterday and I only spent $8.75 (including tax). The fact of the matter is that I could have spent 3 hours browsing around in that store and $500 or more on quality office merchandise. But I showed real restraint in there. I’m a member of the Christian Conservative Coalition. Yeah – I’m one of those wackos – and PROUD of it !

9.  When Staples opens its doors for business later this year over at the MASSIVE new Homestead Pavilion shopping, dining, and entertainment complex I may hang out there like I own the place !  I’m crazy about office supplies like that.

10.  Exactly 5 months ago this morning – on January 03RD 2008 – Homestead was shivering just a few degrees above the freezing mark. It was in the 30s outside for 8 hours, and in the 40s for an additional 8 hours. It was our coldest morning in nearly 12 years !  I just wanted to remind you of that now that we’re clearly in the bug-infested hot and humid summertime rainy season.

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TOMORROW on the big blog I’ll have your ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’. It’s the most spontaneous blog entry of the entire week. I have absolutely no clue what I plan to blog about – until I actually sit down here at my ancient laptop and let my fingers do the talking. It could be lame, obvious, sensible, surprising, controversial, shocking, or horrifying !  Be sure to grab your crew and send them on over to this blog tomorrow afternoon at around 4 PM for this weekly escapade through my brain.

I’m being taken out to Lunch for my birthday tomorrow at the White Lion Cafe. It’s Homestead’s finest restaurant, and perhaps the only joint in town that can qualify as ‘fine dining’. I’ll probably definitely have a few words to say about my culinary experience on tomorrow’s ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’, so consider yourself warned. Don’t miss it. You won’t regret it pal. Keep it real.

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Annoyances Food

Saturday Morning Shenanigans

I went to the Atlanta Bread Company here in Homestead this morning, and for the 2ND time and 2ND Saturday morning visit in exactly 7 weeks I received NO customer service and NO food even though I was in the store for over 15 minutes !

That’s as far as I’ll discuss about this particular experience here on this blog. I have already written and submitted a comment online about the specific details of this morning’s experience to Corporate Headquarters in Smyrna Georgia. I do not plan to visit this store location again anytime soon.

Knowing full well that my overall experiences (about a half a dozen of them) at the Atlanta Bread Company have been far below average I already had a back-up plan in mind, and so after I stormed out of there this morning I enacted ‘Plan B’ by heading over to Publix (where shopping is a pleasure) to release my frustrations by buying food and groceries. (That always seems to do the trick.) I then slipped in to McDonald’s to buy a cheap breakfast (including their # 1 rated coffee). Good Stuff !

… And so those are my ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’ …