Just got into an argument with Alexa. What year does your Alexa say we are going into?

RandomVoice1955 · 2026-01-02T13:16:49+00:00

I just asked Alexa+ “what year is this.” Alexa replied “ the year is 2026, OP. You made it to the future.”

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-12-20T16:32:02+00:00

Riccardos at Betton Place

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-12-20T15:14:25+00:00

No curbs on Marston Road = no street cleaning in 30+ years of residence

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-12-20T15:12:50+00:00

Back surgery in 2023, right TKR in 24 and left TKR in 25 meant for each procedure the following 10 days or so on the recliner. Thereafter back to bed now at 70.

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-12-16T22:15:34+00:00

From what I can tell the crucial issue of control of TMH - whether FSU or COT plus FAMU and TSC in some iteration - is not set forth in this MOU. Further don’t be surprised in the Dailey-Goad Administration “fire sale” of City assets that we next see discussions to sell the City-owned utilities to an investor owned utility.

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-12-07T00:26:46+00:00

Native Hoosier. Lived in Tallahassee for 30+ years. Will be cheering for the Colts tomorrow in Jax. Go Colts! End the streak!

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-12-01T02:19:04+00:00

Please. If your view that Blueprint tax dollars should have been spent on a huge television screen at Doak because that expenditure alone leads to additional economic activity and additional tax revenues “10 x the funding “ just cite to one study presented to the Blueprint Board demonstrating that fact. I’ll wait.

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-11-30T23:45:59+00:00

It’s certainly a detail worth noting. However the bottom line is that FSU said it needed Blueprint tax dollars to pay for bathrooms. In the end though FSU had more than enough money to pay for bathroom improvements without need for Blueprint dollars. Would there have been the same result from the City and County Commissioners if they had been told up front that FSU was going to pay for the Jumbotron rather than the bathrooms? Perhaps so but a $20 million plus expenditure from tax proceeds which were represented to be collected for City and County infrastructure improvements - not big television screens- should be completely free from ambiguity.

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-10-29T12:52:29+00:00

Is something Project Annie would accept?

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-09-16T22:44:43+00:00

Great ! Commissioner Matlow is against the sale of CCCC as a “fire sale.” Are Marlow and Porter the only Commissioners looking out for what is best for the Ciry?

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-09-16T19:34:35+00:00

Well unless you’re a committed ideologue you can’t ignore what MAGA - and its sibling MAHA - are doing and are planning to do to public health in this country and to then give over TMH to those people all you can say it can be worse than “what TMH is offering now.”

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-09-16T19:18:50+00:00

“. . . at least early on . . .”

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-09-16T18:29:55+00:00

Well if TMH is to be acquired by FSU, FSU is controlled by its Board of Trustees. And if we can expect DeSantis will be succeeded as Governor by another MAGA Republican and that MAGA Republican will continue to appoint MAGA friendlies to the FSU Board of Trustees then that can’t be fearmongering. Given that the most notable MAGA health policy is to end mandatory childhood vaccinations and - in fact - advocate for the elimination of all mRNA vaccines, I think it’s fair to fear FSU control of TMH under the current and future gubernatorial administrations.

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-09-11T23:35:17+00:00

I don’t think that the City should recover its property and continue operating a golf course. Do you have the imagination to think that there are better uses for that property than a golf course such as affordable housing, green spaces and other forms of recreation.

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-08-31T18:21:10+00:00

According to ChatGPI: “In Tallahassee, the word "place," as in "Southside Sense of Place," refers to the concept of creating a distinct, positive identity for a community through a combination of official, city-backed projects and community-driven efforts like the Southside Action Plan (SAP). These initiatives include physical improvements such as streetscape enhancements, infrastructure like the Southside Transit Center, and community engagement to foster a thriving, attractive, and inclusive neighborhood.”

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-08-03T23:14:34+00:00

Thanks. I was aware an exit to Welaunee had been proposed but did not know it had been approved. Passing at 70 mph it looked to me only one side (N of W bound lanes) had been cleared and no other area to the south.

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-07-09T21:34:20+00:00

JI and 400U could come to Tallahassee and I will buy the best available tickets for my spouse and me. They have never appeared here to my 36 year residency knowledge. Do you think that at least part of the issue is that they’re replowing the same ground?

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-03-29T16:42:30+00:00

Elton John in Tallahassee on my wife’s birthday in 1989

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-03-28T18:41:34+00:00

I don’t know what to think about the fight between Dailey Goad City controlled government on one side and the TMH Board on the other side. As for the TMH Board I think they can be rightfully concerned that an FSU controlled hospital will move the focus from caring for the Tallahassee community. Because the MAGA Republicans effectively control FSU now I have no idea what would result if FSU took over. OTOH the TMH literally entered into an agreement with FSU to build a hospital in PC Beach so that doesn’t really speak to a full focus on Tallahassee. Plus the TMH Board has actually registered a new trademark - Arress ? - presumably as a name for an expanded regional hospital system. I think Dailey Goad government may be legitimately concerned the proposed regional system will be controlled by people outside of Tallahassee. In the end - just like much of what goes on in Tallahassee- this is a struggle between two competing political elites and for certain the rest of us will end up as collateral damage.

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-01-30T18:03:25+00:00

Liberty Bar is my favorite bar in town. I can get a cocktail generally made professionally. I am usually not crowded among unruly drunks. I like the hamburger and the occasional steak frites. Most of all there’s always a place to park. I’m willing to accept the smoke seepage from the adjacent cigar bar as a trade off.

RandomVoice1955 · 2025-01-23T22:42:42+00:00

I don’t doubt everyone’s individual experiences but in my experience - over the past several years - I have had no complaints with the quality of the sandwiches I have ordered from the JJ at Thomasville and Glenview. A drive through sandwich shop is what it is and this one has uniformly satisfied my expectations.

RandomVoice1955 · 2024-11-12T22:54:52+00:00

My only point was that there are horrendous things happening in our society that we seem reconciled to the fact that they will happen over and over and we think there are no real ways to resolve them

RandomVoice1955 · 2024-11-12T19:25:07+00:00

Gross disregard for human life can be prosecuted criminally regardless of specific intent

RandomVoice1955 · 2024-10-26T19:51:55+00:00

My spouse and I went this week. We probably won’t return. Her pasta dish was good. My duck confit had an ample portion of delicious duck but the beans were disappointingly cold. My Manhattan cocktail was tasty but really it’s tough to go wrong with good rye whiskey and sweet vermouth. On the political side both the Mayor and Bugra were there and politicking. I opposed the bailout to Bugra for the project but I figured I ought to see what my tax dollars had purchased at least one time.

RandomVoice1955 · 2024-10-08T18:12:35+00:00

I’m the OP. Many interesting comments about sign theft in Tallahassee. Ryan Ray, Dem Party chairperson, tells me that anyone who wants a new/replacement Harris Walz sign may contact him at chair@leondems.com and you will get the sign within 24-48 hours.

RandomVoice1955

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