Pirates Dinner Show…

rmiles7721May 2, 2007Entertainment, Travel

…in Orlando is one of those things that I found interesting but was not able to attend when we went to Orlando two years ago. Since it was us with all three kids I figured that it would be much too expensive and the youngest would not have enjoyed it quite as much as the rest of us.

Basically the world’s largest and most interactive Pirate dinner show’s premise is that everyone has been invited to the King’s Festival and everyone is the Princess Anita’s royal guests. Princess Anita is abducted by the dastardly Pirate Sebastian the Black and the adventure is in getting her back.

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You eat on a model of a fully rigged pirate’s galleon and there is plenty of flying and acrobatics up in the rigging, plenty of swashbuckling swordplay and dueling. There are also six other seating “ships” surrounding the main one in the “lagoon” and each one has their own pirate mascot to cheer on. You could also have the chance to interact in the adventure as well. You do have to make reservations for the Pirates dinner show as it’s not something to just show up and plan to get in, even in the off-season months.

MapleLeafTickets has discount tickets for the show at something around 45% off normal gate price. That price also includes all the sales tax as well. Some of the other ticket places that I checked out don’t include the tax so you may think you are getting a great deal until you get to checkout. You just have to make sure and let them know that you have pre-paid passes when you are making the reservations.

This post is Sponsored By Maple Leaf Tickets.

Site Down?

rmiles7721May 2, 2007Technology

Dammitall. My site was down when I tried to post that last one. It was about 1:15 this morning, so I am just going to bed and will look at it when I wake up if I have time before I go see my doctor.

Looks like it’s back up. That’s cool. I’ll post these and hit the sack.

Daily Digest

rmiles7721May 1, 20077Blogging, Technology

I figured I would try something a little new here. I signed up for the free Zookoda service which lets me offer a digest of my site postings daily, weekly, and maybe even monthly. Of course RSS is available, and I am even subscribed to several different RSS feeds, but I never seem to read them even though they are right there in Outlook, which is always open.

I do however, get daily digests from a few different groups I am a member of, and I at least skim over them and sometimes actually pay enough attention to read them. The link to the daily digest subscription is to the right, along with different RSS feeds.

I think the biggest reason that I DON’T read feeds is the interaction. I enjoy going to the different sites. That is part of the blogging experience for me.

Whatever. If you are interested sign up. It will give you once per day (if it works correctly) basically what is in my RSS feed for the day in a nicely formatted email and you can click the links if you want to read the entire post.

Too Late, Too Late

rmiles7721April 30, 2007Site News

Too Late Too Late

Kickass song, but it IS too late. I should have been in bed an hour ago, but I got caught up reading about Natalee Holloway. Tomorrow is my last day in my store as a manager so I am sure that they have something stupid planned.

More on that tomorrow.

My Last Duchess

rmiles7721April 30, 20074Entertainment, Parenting/Family

The Boy and his friends made this for a school project. Had to seriously compress it to upload it to youtube so the quality is not quite as good as it should be but the intent is still there. I suppose if they were in a school near Chicago they would all be in jail now. Oh yeah, that’s only if you insult the teacher and her cookies.

My Last Duchess

rmiles7721April 30, 2007Site News

Eating My Words

rmiles7721April 30, 2007Blogging, Technology

There I was giving Eric a hard time about using up all of his bandwidth for the month and I get home and can’t get to my own site as I have reached my bandwidth limit. Damn that sucks.

They have fixed it for me within minutes of arriving home, but it is certainly humbling to look like a dumb ass.

Monday Open Track-back Post

rmiles7721April 30, 2007Site News

This is my open track-back post for Monday, April 30th, apparently the day of the black plague this week. If you are interested in joining the Open Trackback alliance or just want to host an open linkfest, please visit Linkfest Haven Deluxe for more information and submit your best work, or a post you would like others to see. It’s a great way for new people to check out your blog and see what you are like, as well as give linkage to a lot of really good writers that you might not necessarily come across in your day.

Just a quick note, if you are submitting an open track-back and linking to this post 80% of the track-backs that get sent to my site have to sit in an inbox and get approval from me. I work 10-12 hours a day. I will approve it this evening. Don’t email me in two hours and tell me your track-back is not showing up as there is nothing I can do until I get home from real life. If it has been more than 24 hours, then it is acceptable form to send me an email or leave a comment here and I will make sure to get your link published, either where it should at the bottom of the post, or in some of the cases where WordPress is just not talking to Movabletype I will just add the link to the body of the post itself.

Even if you are not part of the Open Track-Back Alliance, I am more than happy to accept track-backs from any site (other than the spam ones) and you can find the trackback URL by clicking on the link at the bottom of this post. Your link will appear at the bottom of the post under “Blogs that have linked to this post”.

Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis

Trackposted to Perri Nelson’s Website, Leaning Straight Up, Conservative Cat, and DragonLady’s World, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

At Least the Phone Quit Ringing…

rmiles7721April 30, 2007Site News

I managed to get to bed about 11:30 last night. Finally got everyone staffed but damn I am not particularly happy with that one guy. I will only have him for a few days anyway so I will just let it go I guess. He’s the manager that is quitting. The are supposed to be putting a lady in there who just finished training recently, which will be OK. The one guy that has been up there the longest, I trained a couple of years ago, so he knows what my standards are, and the other guy I finished training him and although I am apparently going to get to spend some quality time with him, he can be taught as well.

It sounds like all of the other districts and divisions must be off today, as I have to get sales and staffing for six stores this morning and make sure they are all OK. It’s going to be a long day.

And Here’s The Video..

rmiles7721April 29, 200731Entertainment

…for Damage, Inc.