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02/25/2014 10:08 #58734
HIMSS Conference Day OneCategory: conference
02/23/2014 20:23 #58731
Sasha at Firestone in OrlandoCategory: dancing
Last night we checked out Sasha at Firestone in Orlando on Sunday night. The venue was amazing. Sasha was kind of boring. The place had no trebble inside. At one point Sasha left the stage for like 5-10 minutes and the music kept going and changing over and mixing as though he was still DJing. This totally broke the illusion that he was actually DJing to me.
I left and went to the outdoor dance area that had some other DJ. The music was so good and he was real cute. I danced so hard. I tried looking up who it was but I can't find any info.
The sad part was that the outdoor area was also a smokers lounge. I found it so annoying to dance in a smoky place. Esp cigar smoke. There is so much irony to me being at a healthcare conference for a cancer center dancing in a cloud of cigar smoke. Why do people still smoke tobacco?
02/23/2014 19:33 #58730
The hotel - Bluegreen FountainsCategory: hotels
It seems like every hotel has pools here but our hotel has the best pools. The main pool is like a city block big. I can't wait to check it out later in the week. There is a gym, a bar and strangely a Starbucks and dominos pizza. It looks like additional retail is being built.
According to the website, rooms are now $499 a night but there was a special with Orbitz for $209 a night for a week which was cheaper than a regular hotel room yet its a whole 2 bedroom apartment with kitchen, living room and balcony patio.
This is much better than my experience with Orbitz and Expedia in Portland where I ended up in some isolated hotel way outside the city.
02/23/2014 19:03 #58729
Roadside Fruit and PecansCategory: food
We stopped at a roadside fruit stand and bought some amazing local strawberries and oranges. They smell so good in the warm car. We also got some delicious looking pecans from a farm in Georgia. They are big and fancy unlike the broken ones I normally get.
I want to go to a large farmers market and see if anyone has finger limes down here.
02/23/2014 18:56 #58728
Cocoa Beach 2Category: beach
After the conference registration and stuff I headed over to the beach for a couple hours with (e:yesthatcasey). It was amazing. Despite all the weather saying it was a overcast thunderstorm, it was 80 and sunny all day from when I woke up at 8 till sundown. We rode the waves so hard and far. Some of them were massive. One kind twisted me up under water, I though my neck was going to break. Though, it was pretty amazing in general and all the ibuprofen for my tooth makes me pretty impervious to pain right now anywaysm
Going to the beach is a double edged sword. I love seeing all the hot guys but then I get jealous of them. Despite working out I obviously don't look like someone who lives in a place where you can go shirtless most of the year. Casey said it is environmentally unfriendly to have big muscles because I don't need them to type and I'd have to just eat more to maintain them.
I was trying to explain to casey that this is a issue that seems like its worse for gay people because your desired object could also be your competition. He countered this with that he gets jealous of woman too.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned that last week when you showed a picture of the forecast in an earlier post. Just like here in Maryland, the way the weather is reported is much more grim than the reality. It's rarely cloudy all day long, and almost never cloudy for a string of consecutive days. But you wouldn't know that if you get your info from weather.com.