DAY 58

Appleton, Wisconsin
June 11, 2009
Thu 12:47 AM

you may call me, salbrent: bug killer. i was orignially gonna start my blog saying that i had slain the creature, but no sooner had said creature been flushed down the toilet did another creature emerge for me to dispatch. i drink from the keg of glory... and by keg i mean bottle and glory i mean coca-cola... but i earned it, for i just killed two centipedes. this is quite an accomplishment, given that the first one was on the ceiling in my basement stairwell and i'm, well, short. but i'm resourceful, so i used a dustpan attached to the end of a broom to crush the centipede and grab it when it hit the steps. then, i figured i'd get the coke which was the reason for my trip to the spooky basement at this time of night, and before i could set my foot on the bottom step did i notice another one crawling on the carpet... great. i had no shoes, so back up the stairs to grab more tissue and, fortunately this centipede was a sprinter and not a long-distance runner and stopped near a speaker... waiting for me to return. BAM... dead centipede. two dead centipedes. it was ironic that this second bug showed up after i, being the good and noble hunter, informed my mother of my success and said "i'm sure there's more." that statement tempted fate. sure enough, there was another. i guess they're having a convention in my basement or something.

anyway, all this while multi-tasking... blogging, watching the West Wing, and matching socks and folding t-shirts. nothing is quite as satisfying to me as doing laundry... clothes will always get dirty, but i always prevail because i know how to properly sort clothes and combine detergent and cycles. dirty clothes pile up... then you do laundry and it's like a clean slate, all your clothes are on the table for outfit options. pfff, outfits... funny word for me, i don't wear "outfits" i just try to match dark t-shirts to lighter jeans and vice versa. and whatever hat suits me that day. and whatever vans go best with the shirt i'm wearing.

this mexican coke is pretty good... and i realize that statement is a double entendre... oh my gosh, i can't believe i spelled that right on my first try. entendre... i said it a few days ago when i called my father to inquire why we had coca-cola from mexico in the fridge. i said "where'd we get the mexican coke in the fridge..." do you even keep cocaine in the fridge... i bet you don't. me not being an expert on hard drugs though i cannot say. i'd prefer the mexican coca-cola to the mexican coke, considering coke comes from the coca plant which i think is grown in south america, not southern north america.

enough of this, i grow tiresome of this subject. this reminds me, i need to hang up some clothes in the dryer, give me a second... good, done. clothes that need to be hung are hung, and socks are put together. great feeling of satisfaction.

was just thinking... sitting here watching the west wing... i like the shooting episode where they take the president to gw hospital... i've been there... not as a patient, but as a good friend. when my friend broke his nose i sat in the ER with him until 4 am... part of me wished i graduated from that school... but then the other part of me knows i made the right decision in transferring. as much as i love this show, it really makes me miss DC. a lot. that's my city, i love that city. the dryer keeps beeping, it's gettting annoying. my clothes are not dry yet, there's no need for it to be beeping. i miss dc... i miss going to caps games, heading to georgetown on weekends, and walking the national mall late at night. the monuments are so much better at night. i miss the metro, and how easy it is to get around without a car. milwaukee can't hold a torch to dc... sure, it has a brewery, but that does me no good now that i've given up alcohol. and i gotta say, writing it in this blog will make me stick to my guns better... don't want to go against the blog and such. milwaukee only has bars... dc has so much more. man, i'm just rambling, it's late, i still have notes to write.

oh, oh, and i went and saw terminator: salvation today with Skyscraper. it was okay, entertaining, but a lot of the action sequences were too over the top. what's with hollywood today and the over the top action... don't get me wrong, i love guns and explosions and car chases like any red-blooded american, but i want it to be somewhat believable. entertaining, but no where near as good as the first two. everyone knows the second movie is the best. and we saw a preview for the new sherlock holmes movie... i didn't know they were making a sherlock holmes movie. i can't be surprised... hollywood has no original ideas anymore... all they have are books, comics, and old movies. and guess who's playing sherlock holmes... robert downey jr. i wonder what the british feel about an american playing sherlock bloody holmes. seemed odd to me. odd and an incorrect cast. but i guess it's equivalent to christian bale, a brit, playing batman- the epitome of the american superhero. maybe it evens out. maybe not. sherlock holmes is as british as james bond... just seems odd to have an american playing him.

hmmm, i think that's it for today. kinda rambling today, tomorrow, back to milwaukee. dammit. and i feel like i'm potentially repeating myself or being redundent. this is unavoidable when you write a new post each day.... this is unavoidable. but, i'll still do my best to avoid it.

salbrent