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They hated it there. They hate it on Atlantic Blvd. They’ll hate it in both directions twice a day. No matter what happens, people will still complain about the Matthews Bridge. Why?

No matter where you go from downtown Jacksonville, you’ll be caught up in the same thing…nobody wants to be there when the bell whistles, and if they’re stickin’ around town it’s to listen to some new band pushing sounds out of varyingElectric Guitar Packs on Bay Street.

With the new change of traffic allowed one way at different timeframes on the ‘open’ side of the bridge, Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) is rumored to be keeping the recent ‘detour’ schedules in place, probably to keep workers from having more problems with bosses. One thing that was noticeable was that when the detours went up, JTA busses did not take the Matthews Bridge path from Arlington to the Downtown region. Same thing’ll apply when the change to ‘bidirectional’ driving occurs.

The Author of this post is Darius Boone

Kids seem to know it all when it comes to technology, like phones, computers, video games, and what not. It’s like they are born with some technology gene now, like evolution has worked in this way to make sure that the young kids can last in this technology-driven world. I’m serious. Give any kid a smartphone, and within minutes, they’ve figured out how to play some game on it. When something goes wrong with my phone, or our Wii, my 11 year old son is the one that can fix it! It’s crazy. I feel like an old dog that can’t learn new tricks or something. Just yesterday at breakfast, my son was bugging my wife and me to get internet at home. I explained to him that we can’t get internet where we live. And you know what he said? He said, “Dad, go to satellite star internet.com at work and you will see that we can.” I was floored. How does he know about stuff like satellite internet, and why don’t I?

Not that crap that’s piped in the way marketers want you ta take it! While SciFi.com has given geeks, nerds, dweebs, trekkers/trekkies, and other addicts their fix daily since it came online…it’s canned. Granted, there’s been a FEW decent things that came out, but for the most part storylines on ‘Made for SciFi’ shows/movies are rehashed, recanned, and restrung based on the prior works of others.

It’s nice, but it’s not original. It’s on the same line as Asimov monthly magazines, where you’d receive only tastes of a meal. Granted, some of them were excellent, but in the end a person was lost when trying to get that one newly created appetite fulfilled.

Go get some old school, please? The mind you save WILL be your own!

Last year when I was traipsing through Germany I planned on enjoying some Cuban cigars.  Having missed the opportunity I’ll settle for la gloria cubana, only because of legalities.

Eventually in time either Cuba will be able to trade in it’s riches to the United States, or people will continue to hope that others begin using the same practices original artisans were using long before they weren’t allowed to trade with the United States.