chaz720.net - journal

May 24, 2003

When they beat on a broken guitar, and on the streets they reek of tropical charms. The embassies lie in hideous shards where tourists snore and decay. When they dance in a reptile blaze you wear a mask, an equatorial haze. Into the past a colonial maze, where there's no more confetti to throw. You wouldn't know what to say to yourself, love is a poverty you couldn't sell. Misery waiting, in vague hotels, to be evicted. You're out of luck. You're singing funeral songs to the studs, they're anabolic and bronze. They seem to strut in their millennial fogs 'til they fall down and deflate. You wouldn't know what to say to yourself, love is a poverty you couldn't sell. Misery waiting, in vague hotels, to be evicted. Now you've had your fun under an air-conditioned sun. It's burned into your eyes, leaves you plain and left behind. See them eyes and fall into the jaws of a pestilent love. You wouldn't know what to say to yourself, love is a poverty you couldn't sell. Misery waiting, in vague hotels, to be a victim.

So less about Motorola and more about Florida, yeah?

I went to sleep at 2am last night and still only woke up at 9. Having failed in my plans to sleep in, I took a look outside and saw it was a really nice day. Eastward! To the beach! so I hopped on Sunset Blvd and headed out to the beach. It takes about 25 minutes to get out there and get parked. I snagged a meter just off the strip that still had about 3 hours on it, and just kinda went walking. I walked along the surf for almost an hour and a half and enjoyed the wind and almost getting knocked over by waves. It was excellent.

I spotted a restaurant across the street and decided to get something to eat. I got a grilled grouper sandwidch (my first in altogether way too long) and remembered quickly why I love them so. That picture up top I took right outside the restaurent. You can see the couple of panoramic shots I took along the blvd here and here. (yes I realize the traffic looks ridiculous)

Now a few little random things about being down here...

Whoever said "when it rains it pours" was most likely from southern florida. It will very easily rain for 10 minutes and we'll get and inch and a half. Also the raindrops are generally not of trivial size, and can probably cause serious injury if you are not careful. The rain comes suddenly too and you'll feel like you are in a cartoon when a sudden loud crash of thunder out of nowhere is followed by instant monsoon-like downpour.

Driving around here is just wierd. Unless you are at a major intersection, there's no such thing as left turns. You always just drive to the next light and make U-turns to get where you are going. Some intersections actually have U-turn lanes to the left of the left turn lane. It's crazy. But it does allow every road to have a wide island with trees all along it, so I guess it's worth it.

I got hollered at on two occasions today by cars full of girls while I was walking along the blvd, but sadly neither of them stopped when I yelled back. Ah well what are you gonig to do?

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