Mar 04 2009
Avast Ye!
Shiver me timbers, tis be I, sir Brian of Orlando, here to drink your rum and leave you with the tab! No, but seriously, I’m sorry for my hiatus, I’ve been VERY busy. Since I last posted, I have done so much I can’t even remember it all! All I remember is I’ve gone go carting at an awesome go-cart track with live gators, gone to Hollywood Studios MANY times, met up with my cousins while they were visiting, and even got the chance to meet up with my old band directors at Epcot while they were down here for Magic Music Days. It’s been a crazy couple weeks and I’m getting so excited because Braves Spring Training has begun and that means pro athletes everywhere and lots of hours of working and more money!!!
Today was a fun day though. I had the day off because of class this morning, so I decided to go to the Braves game afterwords. I lucked out in it being Braves vs Yankees today which made it even more so exciting. I took a special direct bus to Disney’s Wide World of Sports around 12:00 and went straight for the merchandise store and grabbed myself a jersey and a new Braves hat because I noticed I don’t have any Braves apparel to support them with. When I finally got inside the stadium I grabbed myself a beer, a spicy chicken sandwich, and headed off to my comfy lawn seats to enjoy a wonderful day in the ball park. I was surrounded by Yankee’s fans which kind of surprised me, but understandable cuz it’s way too cold in New York. It started out to be a very brisk cool day, but by the end of the game, I took of the shirts I had under my jersey and was laying down in the grass, drink in hand, and enjoying the beautiful sunshine. It was a pretty quick game, but an exciting one because the Braves won 3-2 when it was all said and done.
I’m really enjoying my stay down here, but as time goes on, I’m becoming more and more home sick and I miss my friends and family. This scares me because I’m going to be turning 23 soon, and need to move out on my own eventually. I still feel like I’m too young to be making adult choices, but too old to “party like a rock star” like I used to do. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll come to terms with this eventually.
Wow, it’s already 12:30, where has the night gone? Looks like it’s bed time! Take care readers, I’ll post again soon!





I want to formally apologize to all loyal readers of Automaticable for my lack of post last week. It’s been a very crazy past couple weeks for me with lots of work, very little down time and crazy parties that last ’till all hours of the night I just haven’t found time to sit down and just be able to collect my thoughts. I’m in the process of trying to remember things, and really, all that’s coming up is a giant blur. I know on my days off I went to Blizzard Beach and had a blast. There were next to no lines for any of the slides, so I was able to do the entire park with my roommate in under 3 hours. It’s nice being a Disney cast member because you get free admission to just about everything, and when you tell people that you’re a cast member, you notice their eyes light up in a special way that you don’t really see in many other cases. Immediately following this you’re bombarded with questions about the parks, your job, your experience and how many Mickey’s are there? (There’s only 1 by the way)
Well, the first week of my vacation/internship has concluded, and I still have a smile on my face! My first day of training at the Wide World of Sports was cool, but trying to get home was a pain in the butt. It takes me an hour and a half to get to the park by a double bus transfer, but if I had a car to drive there, it would only take half an hour. Going home is where the real problem is, because the bus doesn’t stop at the Wide World of Sports very often to pick up cast members (that’s what they call Disney employees). So I called the bus before I went out to wait, which I then waited an hour, called the bus company AGAIN then preceded to wait another half hour until the bus came. Once it arrived we rode to the Pop Century cast back lot to go over to Costuming to get our Disney Regulated uniforms (costumes). We were there for about a half hour, and were pushing our luck on trying to catch the next bus (which left at 4:00), and we arrived outside at 4:01 and JUST missed the bus and had to wait ANOTHER half hour to catch the next bus. Once that one came it was a half hour ride home, and a fifteen minute walk from the bus stop to my apartment. All and all, it was about three hours from the time I clocked out until the time I stepped back into my apartment.
I’m a couple days late, but Happy New Years! 2008 was our inaugural year for automaticable, and it has been a huge success.

