Well, I leave for Australia in 6 days. I lose about 50 while traveling if you include the time change as I fly. Hopefully the thousands of dollars I am spending plus the 50 hours I am losing will be worth the experience of living in an area with a much higher percentage of poisonous creatures.
On to something worth talking about.
My most recent weekend adventure was a trip to Indianapolis. If you are unfamiliar with the city, let me quote, "A great city out of place in a terrible state." ~ John Melmoth.
I was the Co-Best man of this wedding (Co-Best = contradiction/paradox) and it was a wonderful time climaxing in the shredding of what used to be a rather nice dance floor. For a portion of the Bachelor Party we went to an arcade. After wasting money on arcade games which had very little by way of nostalgia or fun, we found the crown jewel: Deep Freeze.
Insert a coin and watch it roll down a ramp towards a thin hole. Roll the coin into the hole and earn fifty tickets. After trial and error and learning we could wedge the coin guide in the correct position, we walked away with over 3000 tickets. We bought two light up squishy balls with octopus tendrils and a checker board. The prizes were worse than Nicki Minaj, but defeating a machine akin to those that bested us as small children in Chuckie Cheese's far surpasses her.
LIVE UPDATE* A yellow jacket was just walking on my head. I grabbed it, threw it off, then reached for the closest object (a Scientific American: Questions about the Multiverse magazine) and swatted him. Let it be known that no bug may use my hair for a pillowy cushion. Any such attempt to do so will result in a similar fate. END LIVE UPDATE*
After the success of the bachelor party we had a day of rehearsal. Then the following day was the wedding. This is the second in three weeks that I watched one of my best friends ride off into the night with his bride with a week long adventure in a foreign land on the cusp of their horizon. After we all left the reception hall, we decided to have an adventure of our own.
We dumped our junk at the hotel, walked to Wal-Mart and bought Pizza rolls. I slept on a cot.
It was the last night with some of my closest friends I will have for a while. Soon I will be the one riding off into the night (though without a bride) leaving the world I know behind. John Steinbeck wrote in "Travel's with Charley" about his experience in returning to a town he once lived in. Everything was different and he didn't belong their. He met people he remembered who remembered him, but it seemed as if the land didn't remember him. The place he was looking for existed only in his memories.
I am a bit afraid of that being the case when I return from Australia... whether it be in four months or four years. Still, "When in doubt, Castle" ~ Vonnegut.
~Adieu
P.S. I had dreams of "Shadowy Trees" last night. I also recall attempting to infiltrate some sort of warehouse on an Italian estate. I flew a jet very poorly. Still, the shadowy trees stick out the most...
We dumped our junk at the hotel, walked to Wal-Mart and bought Pizza rolls. I slept on a cot.
It was the last night with some of my closest friends I will have for a while. Soon I will be the one riding off into the night (though without a bride) leaving the world I know behind. John Steinbeck wrote in "Travel's with Charley" about his experience in returning to a town he once lived in. Everything was different and he didn't belong their. He met people he remembered who remembered him, but it seemed as if the land didn't remember him. The place he was looking for existed only in his memories.
I am a bit afraid of that being the case when I return from Australia... whether it be in four months or four years. Still, "When in doubt, Castle" ~ Vonnegut.
~Adieu
P.S. I had dreams of "Shadowy Trees" last night. I also recall attempting to infiltrate some sort of warehouse on an Italian estate. I flew a jet very poorly. Still, the shadowy trees stick out the most...
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