NEW FLORIDA RESIDENT BLOG

Welcome to Florida. As a child I heard the story of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock, making friends with the Native Americans and having a swell dinner to give thanks for their bountiful life.  I visited the park at Plymouth Rock and even saw the re-enactors and the animals that had been genetically engineered in reverse (so the cows had long hair like in the 1600's).  I thought it was the coolest thing ever and was excited it all happened so near where I was growing up! But then I started 6th grade. As you are probably aware, unless you attended a subpar elementary school, the Pilgrims didn't originally land at Plymouth Rock.  The actual story about landing on Cape Cod and the desperate search for fresh water is more interesting and carries more life lessons - but it is much more complicated so is glossed over until 6th grade. But the bigger lessons are still solid.  If you go to a new place, you need the help of the locals to start your life.  Yo...

Welcome to Florida. I have a customer that travels all over the United States on business and leaves his wife and daughter home alone for extended periods.  For Christmas last year, he gave them both 9MM handguns and lessons.  That's how guys' brains work.  But if you have you have young kids in the house, loaded handguns might not seem like the best idea in the world.  (It makes me feel uncomfortable and my son is too young to walk or hold stuff.) Plus, I sleep walk. In fact, I have actually fired a fully automatic machine gun when I was completely asleep.  SIDE NOTE: There is no worse way I know to wake up, than to be firing a machine gun and unsure of who or what you are shooting at.  On this backdrop, my wife suggested that I only have weapons in the home that  may be slightly less lethal while sleep walking. Since the stun laser guns on Star Trek haven't been invented yet, I decided to go with Native America weapons.  In a pinch they ...