Milestones and Millstones

1900 posts, which I guess is a milestone, so hence I am posting in the middle of the day.  I crashed early-ish last night, and didn't set an alarm, so I got a full night of sleep, and it was glorious.  Anyways, I decided to take advantage of the last weekend (for a while) with very little on the schedule by hitting a place on my restaurant list.  So off I went to Cleveland Bagel.  It was...underwhelming?  First, there is no parking, and if you are not lucky enough to park on the street in front, you have to look around, and the place is sort of skeeball-y, if you get my drift.  Next, it is take-out only -- I should have checked this out, but did not -- we all know I hate to pre-scout, but here it bit me.  Then...they mucked up my order; I wanted a breakfast sandwich, a bagel with cream cheese, and a coffee...and I got just the bfast sandwich at first.  Eventually I got the rest of my order, and walked back to my car and drove home, where I discovered that 1) everything was just lukewarm and 2) my breakfast sandwich and bagel order had been originally mixed up, so I had a bacon, egg, and cheese bagel on a cinnamon-cranberry bagel with cream cheese.  Not a fan of the mix, so I had to scrape it off.  By then it was...good but not that good.  Indeed, I thought they suffered from "too much;" too much cream cheese, too much cheese, too much in one bagel.  I guess I had expected more and amidst the ballyhoo...it was just ok.  Alas.

It's also sitting somewhere in my digestive tract now; I realize I don't always eat like that, but...oh well.  It happens.

I am amused by the whole Browns moving to Brookpark thing.  I hate to say this, but I think the PD/cleveland.com has it right:  I will believe it when I see it.  No plans to move, no property, no funding lined up...and I think Mayor Bibb has done a good job on this.  If anything, he should call their bluff and start taking bids for the re-development of the Stadium site; nothing like telling the Haslams that they have to find a site by 2028 or else they will be playing in the remnants of the Muni lot.  Quite frankly, I don't think they will do a good job of lakefront development, but nothing like putting a twist in the knife out the door...  I think of course they want the Browns to stay downtown, but...I guess my sense of vengeance is something to behold.