Floridays 2019

Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 It's hard for me to believe I've already been traveling for 2 weeks. Unfortunately, while I'm fortunate enough to be out of the cold winter of Wisconsin, I still need to work to pay the bills, and this is one of those weeks where I'll mostly be working. My plan is to still try to do something fun in the evenings and maybe squeeze in a morning of diving. Of course, that's how this week started. But then it got weird. For only the 3rd time in the 18 years I've been at UW, they closed because of winter weather . In the past they've been unclear about how employees should handle this - can we choose to work if we want? what about working remotely? do we have to use leave time or do we just get the day off? It looks like they learned from past mistakes and made it clear that this was a free day and a half off! Woohoo! However, my team is deemed essential and we needed one employee working. I checked the marine forecast and diving d...

Friday, January 25th, 2019 It was time to leave Panama City Beach and head south (and east) along the coast to my friend Loren 's. The first hour of the drive was through smaller roads, but then the majority of it was non-exciting interstate driving. At least, with the except of a few slow-downs, it went pretty quickly and without excitement. I arrived at Loren's for supper, and both of us were pretty worn out and decided just to stay in, order pizza, and test out some rums. It was a lot of fun to catch up with him and hear about living in Florida. Saturday, January 27th, 2019 The original plan for the weekend was to go see 2 of Loren's shows. Unfortunately, both shows were outdoors and the forecast called for cold and rainy by Florida standards (50s and 60s). Loren's shows were canceled, so we spent the afternoon at Hurricane Charley's seeing  Jack Mosley . Afterward we just relaxed, chatted, and had rum drinks....ahhhh...... Sunday, January 28th, 2...