I just thrilled about having a comfy seat. Sent from my iPad
> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:23 PM, John Vega <[email protected]> wrote: > > random notes. > > The UAA should ask for about half of its renovation budget back from > Brasfield & Gorrie. Seatbacks in the arena, not much else. Concrete not > sealed, stained, or even cleaned. Not quite the funk of forty thousand years > on the floors, but close. Outside the bowl, metal support structures still > have peeling paint and cobwebs. > > The money seems to have gone to a new atrium that looks about the same as the > old one. Not sure why excavation was needed if this was the end goal. > > I assume some money went into the new “Champions Club,” that few fans will > ever use. > > Nice that the band was back in the student section. Now to get the flute > player back on the court for the solo in “You Can Call Me Al.” > > I have a Nikon camera, I like to take a photograph. Except that I was turned > away by the police at the O’Dome, as it had a detachable lens. I looked up > the UAA policy on cameras, and the detachable lens requirement only applies > to lenses over 6 inches in length. I wish that I had know the 6 inch > requirement. I would have offered the officer a visual aid. > > Burrito Brothers is on life support. It may be gone sooner rather than later. > If you are in Gainesville, be sure to stop by if you can. No signage or > frontage on a main street seems to have killed it. Just around the corner, > there was a line for Chipotle. Go figure. > > Gainesville has a couple good microbreweries. First Magnitude Brewing makes a > blonde ale called “Vega.” I assume that - like Las Vegas - it was named after > me. It has a tap room on Main, with over dozen microbrews on tap. > > I had some of the best BBQ beef at Adam’s Rib. It is one of the old Joe’s > Delis. The one next to the Arby’s with the big hat sign on 13th over by > Shands. Pork also good, but that’s a lot easier to make. The celing still has > the murals from our 1984 season. The scores and opponents are depicted well. > Look for the tie game against LSU. > > Adam's also - oddly - open for breakfast and surprisingly good. If you don’t > want to wait in line at some fancy breakfast place on a Saturday morning, it > is the place to go. > > -Zeb > > -- > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 > National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 > National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve > Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorTalk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
