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Damn. It's like that twister circled around and came back.

"Far out on the desert to the north dustspouts rose wobbling and augered the earth and some said they'd heard of pilgrims borne aloft like dervishes in those mindless coils to be dropped broken and bleeding upon the desert again and there perhaps to watch the thing that had destroyed them lurch onward like some drunken djinn and resolve itself once more into the elements from which it sprang. Out of that whirlwind no voice spoke and the pilgrim lying in his broken bones may cry out and in his anguish he may rage, but rage at what? And if the dried and blackened shell of him is found among the sands by travelers to come yet who can discover the engine of his ruin?"

Phoenix X is pretty much exactly the same as Phoenix VII, VIII, and IX. A veritable blight of one size fits all, copy pasta condo towers splattered all over Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. Unfortunately, every time a new Phoenix rises from the ashes, they somehow manages to miss the part where the previous iteration burns to the ground, or gets wiped off the map by a hurricane, or whatever.

The phoenix's immolation is just as much a part of the story as its rebirth...

We usually just stay at The Lighthouse...

My original thought was that the acne meds were for the lap runner. Once you said it was for the girl, all bets are off. I'm not wrapped around my daughter's finger, but I can easily say I'd buy whatever she needed to address acne. Her mother is obsessed with her acne scars (which are not significant, they look like a few odd freckles) and it colors the self esteem years after they're basically gone.

I didn't experience acne as a teen...except every alergy season I would get a HUGE pimple (just one) on or near my nose. I think it was a consequence of poor face cleaning while blowing my nose 30 times a day.

Dave23 wrote:AA, are you looking into buying at the Phoenix X, or at one of the other nearby properties?

Yes. And a house on the back bay.

hedge wrote:You really are next door to the Florabama. What's that place like?

It's okay. Standard, well-worn high-rise condo. I like these because they survive hurricanes virtually unscathed. I like the Phoenix X because it is (as you mentioned) right next to the FloraBama and has a high occupancy rate (I plan to list it as a rental).

aTm wrote:Phoenix X is pretty much exactly the same as Phoenix VII, VIII, and IX. A veritable blight of one size fits all, copy pasta condo towers splattered all over Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. Unfortunately, every time a new Phoenix rises from the ashes, they somehow manages to miss the part where the previous iteration burns to the ground, or gets wiped off the map by a hurricane, or whatever.

They vary in size (1 to 3 BR) and all have different furnishings and appliances in various states of disrepair. Otherwise, you are correct. I know of no Phoenix high rise that has ever been lost to hurricane or whatever.

Pity.

My 13 year old has bad acne as well. I know she just changed to a new script though. Hers is free though because her mom is on food stamps & one of those medicaid things.

"It's okay. Standard, well-worn high-rise condo."

Wait, I thought the Florabama was a bar...

Anybody ever play any golf in the Tampa/Orlando area?

Once. At a course in Bradenton. Waterleaf or something maybe? There was a course on every corner so it seems like you could play for years before trying them all. I remember it being very cheap.

Dr. Nostron wrote:Anybody ever play any golf in the Tampa/Orlando area?

Yes. Several times. If you don't mind a drive, about 45 minutes north is a place called Pine Barrens. It's a destination course. I like it better than Sawgrass.

I have been playing on a Donald Ross course recently, Highland CC in Fayetteville (get to play as a member since girlfriend is a member there). I had never played a Ross course prior to this. That Scottish mother fucker can burn in hell for designing greens that diabolical.

played disney last year

had a 9 and 2 18 hole layouts

nice courses cheap greenfees
played the 9 with the 2 grandkids age 14 and 11 had a blast

" That Scottish mother fucker can burn in hell for designing greens that diabolical."

Yes, I've heard his putt-putt courses are brutal. The windmill on the 18th is particularly tricky. Sorry you had to learn that firsthand...

I never knew fat chinks could get into country clubs through the front door