Wow, a friend of mine and Florida blogger is getting screwed over by Walmart right before Christmas. She’s a single Mom and purchased a very expensive item for her kids through walmart.com, paid for expedited shipping, and now the item isn’t going to be here in time for Christmas. A sorry tale of customer service [...]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida gives $350,000 to charity So, BCBSFL members can expect lower premiums next year, correct? Yay! What? Oh. Hey, I don’t mean to be a scrooge at the holidays or anything, but I’d much rather see lower premiums given today’s supposed skyrocketing healthcare costs. After all, I already give to [...]

My parents have a vacation home in the mountains north of Asheville, NC. If you’ve ever been to Asheville, you know that during the summer Florida license plates outnumber NC license plates. One of the big draws, besides the weather, is the Biltmore Estate. My wife and I always bring a case of Biltmore wine [...]

Hey, for those of you traveling to Florida on vacation or business and need a Miami car rental, or an Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, or Pensacola car rental (we’re including Pensacola for political correctness, even though we know it’s really South Alabama out there), the folks that brought you Maui car rental and Hawaii car rental [...]

It was a while ago. A lifetime, really. Back when it was unique and had flavor. I even proposed to my wife in a lookout tower on top of the Castillo de San Marcos. A while back the local government passed an ordinance to get rid of sidewalk vendors and performance artists. Local businesses hated [...]

Man, I’ve been working my tail off on some new sites the past few weeks. First, there’s the Hundred Day Head Start, a motivation/support/accountability site dieting and exercising. This is going very well, we’re getting really good traffic and incoming links, and the attention is very motivating for me, helping me stick to my diet. [...]

My sister-in-law and her husband are back from their latest excursion in their RV, which they are now putting up for sale. It is lightly used and I can attest to the fact that it is in wonderful condition. But, they have a little one entering school and business interests competing for their time. When [...]

About half of my family are small business owners – small in the sense that they’re basically family-owned, but at least one is a multi-million-dollar business and another is well on it’s way. I’m also dipping my toes in the water with these blogs o’ mine. I’ve been asking a lot of questions, trying to [...]

I’ve always wanted to go to the Caribbean on vacation. Hey, Florida’s great, but sometimes I need a change of scenery. Every time I’ve mentioned it to anyone, they always start with “Hey, there’s this cruise ship…”, to which I jam my fingers in my ears and spin around singing “la la la la la [...]

The local rag in Jax, The Florida Times-Union, with it’s website, Jacksonville.com, are occasionally taken to task by smaller organizations for being too close and soft on business and political leaders in Duval County. But, credit where credit is due, someone over there has their teeth into Mayor John Peyton’s rear-end and is shaking loose [...]