Wassup (or: Greetings from Sunny Saint Pete)

lordmarcovan

Having fun in Florida. Eating a lot (gee, so what else is new). Wish you were here.

My stepfather has an antediluvian computer. It might crash any minute now when the rubber band breaks, or the mouse gets tired of running on the wheel.

Dialup. I had forgotten the joy. I haven't had so much fun since we had an oven with a little window in it where you could watch bread rise. Woohoo.

historygeek

analog!

lordmarcovan

No cookies either, apparently, as I have no PM icons or Profile tab showing, and I hafta enter my login information with every post. Definitely low-tech. This is sorta reminds me of the time I spent a weekend participating in a Civil War reenactment, where we had to eat what they did, sleep on the ground, and offer ourselves as chew toys for every biting insect in the South. Boy, did I smell great after THAT little adventure!

(PS- did you know that ticks have an extra special affinity for those private places?)

Aethelred

Sunny, at this time of night? Me thinks LordM is pulling our leg!

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Sunny, at this time of night? Me thinks LordM is pulling our leg! >>



Okay, y'got me on that one.

But Greetings from "Formerly Sunny Saint Pete" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

78 degrees. (Or it was when it was sunny, I should add, before Mister Nitpicky goes to the Weather Channel and proves me wrong).

Eat yer heart out, snowbirds.

It's a nice preview of FUN. We are gonna have some, well, FUN. In just about two weeks. (A select few of us, anyway.) Dunno about y'all, but I am really starting to look forward to it.

ajaan

It was 54 degrees in Western New York today.

lordmarcovan

Not too bad, then.

By the time this computer posts this message, though, it'll be much warmer there. Springtime, maybe summer.

newsman

<< <i>Wish you were here. >>



Me, too. The Tampa Bay area is a wonderful place to be. I used to work for the local newspaper in St. Pete (a homey, little small-town paper with staunch conservative values ). What a great way to spend New Year's. Hope you have a good one.

1jester

Yes, meLord. Have a lot of fun!

SYRACUSIAN

<< <i>a homey, little small-town paper with staunch conservative values >>



Was that the reason that you left them Chuck?

MSD61

I grew up in the St.Pete area (Madeira Beach) and lived there up until 2001 when my wife wanted to come back to New England. So I said what the heck the area was becoming a nightmare and the small beach town I grew up in was being overrun by devlopment....too many danged condos and the nice white beaches, dunes and sea oats were ruined. The big time devlopers trashed most of St.Petersburg's history. There's too many people smashed into too small an area. Pinellas County used to be a real nice place to live but now just too many people there. Oh well as long as you're having a great time LM that's all that matters

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Pinellas County used to be a real nice place to live but now just too many people there >>



No disagreement from me there. I like visiting but sure as heck wouldn't wanna live there. I prefer to live in towns of less than 50,000 people. You can keep all that big-city stuff. I was born in Florida (West Palm Beach), and have many fond memories of it, but no particular desire to live there. If I ever did live in Florida again, it would most likely be in North Florida. Amelia Island was my favorite Florida locale I lived in (and believe me, we lived in lots of them- we were "boat people" and moved a lot when I was a kid. A real gypsy childhood.) I suppose I could live in or near Old Town Fernandina again, but the rest of Amelia Island seems to have been hit by development, too.

The islands here are suffering much the same fate. The population is growing fast. It's really no different than North Florida here- we're just above the GA line.