Out and About
I answer to a lot of people, but none of them bother me as much as my husband finding mistakes. I think I’m going to cancel my subscription so he doesn’t have convenient and readily available proof that I’m not perfect. I’d rather just have him keep going through life thinking that I’m positively perfect in every conceivable way. (ha ha) My husband included in his critique this past week that I also had something wrong in my column regarding tariffs. You know how fun it is when your significant other brings up past mistakes? Not. Apparently – one time – out of all the times I typed tariffs – I had tariff’s instead of tariffs. I and we always admit our mistakes – in writing since we make them in writing.
The following is my correction to my column last week. The YouTube Channel that explains all the recent and past archeological discoveries that correlate with stories in the Bible is Expedition Bible which you can find at youtube.com/ExpeditionBible. When I was typing out the title, the not so smart auto correction made it Exhibition Bible – which if you Google, it says, “did you mean Expedition Bible…and yes, that it is what I meant. I remember looking it up before I typed it so I’m not sure how that happened. Could it be that I’m not infallible?
The other correction from last week, a Bible verse from 500 years before Jesus was born, Zechariah 9:9, did not have Jesus’s name in it. That was kind of the point. It was a prophesy of the unnamed messiah or king (Jesus) riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. The correction is, …”See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
Regarding out and about information from this century, the owner of our Burger King in Navarre, Consolidated Burger Holdings, LLC based out of Destin, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. I’m sure our Burger King was one of the highest grossing restaurants out of the 57 restaurants that Consolidated Burger Holdings owns. They are leasing their property in Navarre. The property is prime real estate and is at the light of the Navarre Beach Causeway. If Burger King can’t make it there – I’m sure a Chick-fil-a would love to be there. The last time that piece of prime real estate was sold was in December of 2011 for $1.2 million and some change. The registered agent is located in Sarasota, FL. I’m going to personally send this information to my Chick-fil-a friends – just in case they want to hop on an awesome opportunity. However, we will have to do something about the traffic at that intersection. But, there is a chance that the reorganization of the bankruptcy will allow them to continue operating there as a Burger King – only time will tell.
In the good news department, Happy Joe’s Pizza and Ice Cream is finally opening their doors on April 28, this Monday. Yes – it is true! Over the past three years we have written a lot of stories about their efforts to open, we finally had to tell our writers to wait until there was some significant progress – like an absolute date for the opening, and that day has finally arrived. The county had their part to play in the delayed opening – but finally the day has arrived, just in time for the summer! We are very happy for them and all the families in the area! This is a family-centric, child entertainment franchise. Also perfect for the child at heart.
Quote of the Week: “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. (I know you want to know what a polemicist is. It sounds like it could be something terrible but it actually means “a person who engages in controversial debate.” He would fit right in. Too bad he didn’t have Facebook in the early 1900’s)