ABSILVER's World

I have been in Key West for almost a month, from the 2 nd  of June to the 29 th , 2013.  So, I thought I would share my reviews of restaurants.  (Going to update and hopefully put these on a map.) The Key is Simple, and I will try and keep comments a few. Green: I would recommend it.  I ate there more than once, and the food and service were very good to excellent.   Blue: It was  very good.  I would probably go back but read the comments. Orange: Was OK.  I may have been there on a bad day, but odds are I won’t return.   Maybe the restaurant did not match my taste, but not somewhere I would not go out of my way to try again. Red: I wouldn’t go back, nor would I recommend anyone try it.  (you will note no reds below.) A few observations about restaurants in Key West, to my observation, they are all above average, and I was quite pleased overall.  Also, the most expensive meal to eat here is breakfast.  If you have a standard breakfast, it is $20 a person.  T

I sit here on what for all practical purposes is a great day for gay rights, and hopefully human rights overall.  The Supreme Court has struck down DOMA, and effectively let stand a California Court ruling against the constitutionality of Proposition 8.   I had written about listening to the Supreme Court and their questions in March on both cases and I was right on how Proposition 8 case came down.   Any one that questions either ruling should listen to the thoughtful questions from the justices as I did. Can only imagine the celebration this weekend in NYC, the parade, the Pier with Cher!  and something to celebrate! It also is the same week the Supreme Court set Affirmative action back.   They also for all practical purposes obliterated the Voting Rights Act.   Just happens to be based on the belief that the prejudice that was challenging fair elections and enrollments in colleges in the South are mostly gone.     In the middle of this discussion, in walks Paula D

I sit here, nearing the end of a journey.  This feeling that I needed to step outside of my life to observe it.  To think, to observe, and make sure that I get out of my own skin.  I picked the most unusual place in June, Key West.  I originally thought about a train ride through the northeast.  Stopping along the way in Washington, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, and end maybe in Maine.  But, that would have been costly and frankly would have been more about the journey and the company along the way.  It wouldn't have had the same ideal of stepping outside of myself and looking at the world and my world from what is basically an observation post. When I decided to rent this house.  I thought for a moment and did some research on house or apartment in New York City itself.  What would that look like?  What could it be that I had missed almost 20 years ago by placing my world in Westchester County that day and not as some in the briefing center had in the city itself? 

Here I sit in Key West... at a house that I have been at since the second of June.  In many ways this house, and Key West is about a fresh beginning.  It is about not wanting to lose touch with what is in my soul, which is my life is changing along with my work life.   I am on this journey of happiness, and have the luxury of good friends and family and have been meeting new ones. Some, relatively new friends, came down for the weekend.  (Thanks Tom and Mike!)  Was so nice to have them here, company, and we had a great time.  As Tom said, they like to be easy house guest and remind themselves this is someones home and they just fit in as if they belong here.   We had a bbq and pool party last night for some great gentlemen, including Graham, Bruce, Shane, Jeremy and some new friends in Key West Terry and Seann.  This was a group of folks who didn't all know each other, but by the end of the evening you would have thought we had all been friends for a long times.  Was lovely

Ok.. So today I have an opinion.. not yet on where I am headed.  Although, I spent most of Saturday forgetting it was Saturday which I take to be a good thing. My concern today, is about Apple's announcements yesterday, Googles, Microsoft Xone, Facebook where these vendors want to get to know you better.  They really think by following your day to day life they will know so much about you that you will buy more from them or their advertisers.  Apple is going to improve how you organize your pictures. Not help you organize them better you see, because they already know where you were.  They already think they know what you were doing.  So, why should you take the time to organize them yourself? or click Photostream and now the world can see where you were, who you were with, and if not careful people can add pictures to your stream that could either enhance your world or detract from it. Facebook, wants you to be front and center and live in Facebook from your phone and b

What happens when the fuse is lit and life heads in an unexpected direction ? I started a blog post early this year that I knew this year was about life and a new direction.   Though I didn't know where, why or how.   There was a feeling that this year would be what I have called an inflection point in my life.  That something somehow would change, and the gut was the change would be for the good.  So, I wake up this morning in what I called yesterday a detox from work.  Sitting at Denny's off of Duval for breakfast, in Key West, starting a month's journey to figure out how I think my life will proceed.  I am a complicated fellow at times and I don't believe this will all sort itself out in a month, but I hope to Detox to let my mind wonder in new directions and I have one clear goal.   This is for all practical purposes the halfway point in my life.  I will be 49 in November.  I am a lucky man to have parents who are healthy and with it and had grandparents that live