2011 Mon. Jan. 31


Lazy day spent reading, working on the computer, and watching TV. About 4 p.m. I took a long bike ride. Just west of us there is a woods for about ½ mile, and there is a wide sidewalk along the street with the woods on the side. The street is Hwy. 192 (also Irlo Bronson Hwy.) and is a major east-west road. In this area, there is not much to the south of the highway. Orlando is about 10 miles north, but the area north of 192 is filled with resorts and other stuff. A few miles east on 192 is the actual town of Kissimmee, which is on a large lake. The street on the east edge of Cypress Palms Resort just goes about a mile or so south and ends. I rode down that way also, and there is a large campground and a residential area with very small homes on a small lake.

Since tomorrow is my birthday, we went out tonight to Landry’s Seafood to celebrate. I had broiled scallops and Linda had fried shrimp - both were excellent. With all that comes with the meals (bread, salad, rice, potatoes, mixed vegetables), we were too stuffed for desert! Love that FL seafood!


FL WEATHER: High 77, low 56, very sunny.


FL NEWS: We’re headed back to the 80s today:
That would be degrees, not the decade that produced movies such as Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee or Fatal Attraction — or television shows such as Magnum P.I., Miami Vice or The Jeffersons. All told, today’s forecast calls for partly sunny skies, highs in the low 80s and lows in the mid 60s. There is a 20 percent chance of rain. It might seem like a while since we’ve seen 80 degrees, particularly after a rather cool weekend. Indeed, it’s been since Jan. 21. Afternoons should remain warm through Friday, when another cold front is expected to approach.
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Disney aims to boost direct time-share sales by restricting resales:
In a bid to buttress its own sales, Disney's time-share business said Tuesday it will impose new restrictions on buyers who purchase their time shares from existing owners — rather than directly from Disney. Disney Vacation Club, which sells time shares as "points" that can be redeemed for stays in various accommodations, said it will no longer allow owners who acquire their points via resales to redeem them for nights in conventional hotel rooms at the company's five theme-park resorts worldwide, voyages aboard its cruise ships or vacations through its guided-tour operation. Instead, such owners will be allowed to use their points only for stays in one of Disney's 11 time-share resorts — seven of which are at Walt Disney World — or in third-party hotels available through time-share exchange operator RCI. Some company followers said Disney is trying to prop up its own direct sales, which stumbled during the global recession and credit freeze. Disney reported lower vacation-club sales during its 2010 fiscal year, which ended Oct. 2.