Der lyrical and multi-talented Belle writes:

> I like reading about your Florida antics.

Antics?

>Hm, you're not Itinerant in NY anymore. Perhaps you are Itinerant
>in Transit? Itinerant in General? Teehee.

For a little background, she is the woman who has a way of coining catchphrases that stick..

Such as the one that is now a big ol' logo on the top of this page.

Yep. Her.

Naturally - her new phrases will be soon be on mugs and t-shirts and license frames and....
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So, some random Florida (annoying quotey fingers - another Belle catchphrase Ive stolen) "antics":

Recently, I wander by a strip mall somewhere in Lauderdale and I see this sign



I do a double, and sure enough - I confirm that the Fetish Factory is NOT a chocolate or cheesecake joint.



Normally, that would be enough... but this is a magical stripmall ladies and gentlemen...

So naturally along with the Fetish Factory, there is an appropriately named Delicatessen...



A lawyers office



And, sure - a pregnancy clinic.



Heheh. COULD I make this up?
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My morning routine:

I normally am awake by 5am (unless I went to bed AT 5am.)

By 7 or 8, i have trundled off to the 7-11 for my coffee and donuts...

First I pick up a New York Post, then decide which of the South Floridian megapolis papers I should buy



The bowdacious tata's win this morning.

Frankly tho - by the time Im done with the Post - most other papers bore me. I shouldnt even bother.

Anyways, before I first moved to Florida back in 89/90, I DETESTED coffee.

I became addicted to 20 oz muggas in a Florida convenience store, where the mixes are a BIG production with several types of flavorings etc etc.

This morning is no exception:



My 24 oz contains:

8 packets of brown sugar
3 packets of powdered creamer
5 packets of half-and-half
Half a cup of hot chocolate (from that machine there..)
A touch of chocolate amaretto (from the same machine)
And there i am topping it off with Dark Mountain Roast coffee.

What? This is one of my more conservative days.

I grab an apple fritter and chocolate donut.. pay the nice Jamaican lady who always reads the cover of the Post thoroughly before she scans it.. and my day begins. :-)
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By the way, this is SUCH a pretty truck.



Cant you just hear the Magnum P.I theme looking at it?

Its rilly not my speed, cept I LIKE it. :-D
It is sooo pretty.

(Cue Magnum PI theme...)