Living in the Tampa Bay area you learn that it has been over 100 years since we’ve been hit with a major hurricane. We’ve had a few close calls. Hurricane Charley in 2004 was aimed straight at Tampa Bay until it turned slightly east and hammered Fort Myers. There have been other close calls. Everyone […]
29Aug09
Midnight Ride
I drove across the state on a lark back in June, trying to catch a launch of the space shuttle. It didn’t go. Since I’d gotten my hopes up, I kept trying every time NASA had a launch scheduled when I could make it to the east coast. I spent an entire weekend waiting through […]
4Aug09
Spoiled
This is how spoiled I am: While at work, I sit in front of a huge 8th floor office window (basically the entire wall is a window) that looks out over the Saint Petersburg yacht basin, Straub Park, and Tampa Bay. Eight floors above me, the building has my bank’s name on it, and if […]
13Jul09
No-Go For Launch
I’ve set a personal record of a sort. I’ve gone through an entire year without visiting the east coast of Florida before, but now I’ve managed to drive over there 4 times in the space of a single month. I’ve never made so many cross-state trips in such a short timeframe. One trip was to […]
13Jun09
Late-night adventures
“Hey, want to go watch the space shuttle launch?” This question usually leads to some sort of goofy adventure, and very rarely results in actually witnessing a shuttle launch. With the shuttle program slowly drawing to a close (only 8 remaining launches are scheduled) I figured I’d head over to the Cape to catch a […]