I
never get tired walking around Gateway taking pictures and enjoying all
that Mother Nature offers. If you ever have the time and want to see
more of where I live just go to http://www.youtube.com/user/GreatMartin1  Most are 20-30 second videos of Gateway and/or my apartment.

Recently I have been very busy deleting blogs. When I started blogging it was strictly to continue
keeping a diary as I have done since I was 10 years old--with the
closet filled with notebooks this was a great alternative! At 2 blog
sites I had over 6,500 blogs with at least 98% original posts and now
that I started getting rid of the 2% that I C & P'd plus those that aren't relevant anymore it has become quite a job. Just
transferring them to an outside drive, not to mention getting to the
first page,  is time consuming. The main thing is that I have found many
I can repeat today that I wrote 7-8 years ago and they are as fresh as
they were when I wrote them. There are a few like my "A Jew Looks At
Christmas" that I have posted every December along with the Halloween
post and my series of celebrating February 29 Leap Year birthdays.

After
I make some head way with the deleting I plan to start rewriting my "7
Decdaes" series and will have it published in 2014--in all probability
the last book I will write.

On
another subject it looks like a busy week coming up--Wednesday we go to
see the touring company of "Chicago" which starts the Fort Lauderdale theatre season and on Friday "Mamma Mia" at the Arsht Center in Miami which starts their season. We are talking about going
down to South Miami Beach and spending the day there maybe seeing a
movie, having a late lunch possibly  at the Bayside marina in Miami and then the show. Throw in Thursday with the Cafe Vico and The Pantry plus errands like food shopping we may meet ourselves coming and going.

Due
to contractional reasons/agreements I have to post my touring company
reviews first at www.broadwayshowbiz.com so look for them over the
weekend. A lot of good shows coming along this season like "Book of
Mormon", "Once" plus the two I already mentioned and about 8 more. One
of my many joys in life is going to the theatre!

It is a beautiful Sunday here in Fort Lauderdale so I am taking the Sunday paper, going down to The Point and just
relax. I can't wait for my eye, NET and dermatologist doctors give me
the okay to go swimming again. I miss the water but the sun and blue sky
sort of make up for it. I read that it is Autumn here--we may only get
to a high of 85 degrees today and the humidity is very low--I may have
to start 'winterizing' my place soon---NOT!