[gatortalk] Recent Visit to Gainesville

random notes.

The UAA should ask for about half of its renovation budget back from Brasfield & Gorrie. Seatbacks in the arena, not much else. Concrete not sealed, stained, or even cleaned. Not quite the funk of forty thousand years on the floors, but close. Outside the bowl, metal support structures still have peeling paint and cobwebs.

The money seems to have gone to a new atrium that looks about the same as the old one. Not sure why excavation was needed if this was the end goal.

I assume some money went into the new "Champions Club," that few fans will ever use.

Nice that the band was back in the student section. Now to get the flute player back on the court for the solo in "You Can Call Me Al."

I have a Nikon camera, I like to take a photograph. Except that I was turned away by the police at the O'Dome, as it had a detachable lens. I looked up the UAA policy on cameras, and the detachable lens requirement only applies to lenses over 6 inches in length. I wish that I had know the 6 inch requirement. I would have offered the officer a visual aid.

Burrito Brothers is on life support. It may be gone sooner rather than later. If you are in Gainesville, be sure to stop by if you can. No signage or frontage on a main street seems to have killed it. Just around the corner, there was a line for Chipotle. Go figure.

Gainesville has a couple good microbreweries. First Magnitude Brewing makes a blonde ale called "Vega." I assume that - like Las Vegas - it was named after me. It has a tap room on Main, with over dozen microbrews on tap.

I had some of the best BBQ beef at Adam's Rib. It is one of the old Joe's Delis. The one next to the Arby's with the big hat sign on 13th over by Shands. Pork also good, but that's a lot easier to make. The celing still has the murals from our 1984 season. The scores and opponents are depicted well. Look for the tie game against LSU.

Adam's also - oddly - open for breakfast and surprisingly good. If you don't want to wait in line at some fancy breakfast place on a Saturday morning, it is the place to go.

-Zeb

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