DAY 78

Appleton, Wisconsin
July 6, 2009
Mon 11:40 PM

i have been such a slacker... four days since a post! Let's see, last time I posted was the second... nothing going on that day. the third was a bachelorette party in milwaukee, the fourth was a wedding in appleton, and the fifth was a recovery day from said party and wedding. both were tremendous amounts of fun, the bachelorette party was on third st in the old world section of milwaukee, we went to capone's, old german beer hall, buckhead's, and bootlegger's. old german beer hall was great! i can't believe i lived in milwaukee for two years and never went to this place. i drove past it a few times, but man, did i miss out until last friday. i've been to the real hofbrauhaus in munich, so maybe i thought i didn't need to go to the milwaukee version. the beer was amazing (it is german after all) and the food, oh i love german food. we got three different kinds of wursts (sausage for all you english speakers)... weisswurst, knackwurst, and currywurst. weisswurst is white in color and is pork and veal, knachwurst is red and is beef and pork, and currywurst is the most delicious thing in the world. it truly is. it's a sausage covered in a zesty tomato curry sauce. and i love it. maybe it's a good thing i never went to this place, because i'd be there all the time. all the time. i think i said i had currywurst in germany, but this is a lie... i mean, i was pretty drunk, it was unintentional. i think i saw it in a movie i watched, yeah, it was an israeli movie i was watching for my hebrew studies class. and they were in germany and they had currywurst, it's a popular street snack in germany. oh my gosh, i am so glad i got it. in fact, on our way back to the hotel i asked the bouncer at the ogbh how late the kitchen was open, and it was open till 2 am! so i got some currywurst to go... ahhh, i want some now.

bootleggers was really fun too, it had three stories and there was a dancefloor, just a fun atmosphere. capone's had really nice bartenders, and buckhead's was kinda boring... the guy at the door did say it was the longest bar in the midwest. it was long, but, like the world's largest ball of twine, rather underwhelming.

oh i want to go back to old world milwaukee. good thing i only live two hours away. so, there was that, and the wedding which was fun. lots of fun. i got hammered on friday, and at the wedding i continued this trend, but i really didn't get drunk. apparently eight or so beers and five shots isn't enough to do it. i am a machine. and at the hotel, near the pool there was a small arcade area with DynamiteCop! the greatest arcade game ever! i had to call my friend Skyscraper cause we used to play it all the time at the theater. it's not there anymore, i think the one at this hotel is the last one in the valley. so, i played it and it was fun. and there was this driving game where you also got a gun, kinda the arcade version of gta. or a simulator on how to do drive-bys. on that one i didn't do as well. i was kinda pissed that the air hockey table didn't work, ate a dollar of mine, i was looking forward to that.

oh, and i didn't sleep really any of those days. on the third my roommate took up the entire bed so i sat in a chair, i think i got in about a two hour nap the night of the wedding, so i was going on like five or six days with no sleep. and i'm still amazed how unaffected i was given the mass quantities of alcohol and no sleep. and i know i know, i said i wasn't going to drink. well, with all these events that was kinda unrealistic of me. after this week, no more booze. last night i got a few hours of sleep, i'm still not sure how much, but i think it was better than it has been. and i just got my thriller album in the mail, it looks great and sounds great! vinyl truly sounds better than cds. that's all, i'm trying to get back into a normal sleep rhythm. that's what i think is wrong with me, my circadian rhythm is off, cause i do get tired around 7 am... and a lot of good that does me, i'm not working a graveyard shift or anything. that's it, off to bed.

salbrent