that caps it off

• Quotation of the day: I watched Law and Order the other day for the first time. It was okay, but I won't watch it again. I did get one thing out of it though: "The greatest thing, as I live and learn, is just to dig and be dug in return." A new twist on an old classic. True dat.


• April now has a blog. The link is in my link list. Check it out and give her a comment.


• Okay I need to post something about The X-Files: I Want to Believe. I saw it once at 12:01 a.m., then again at 11:00 a.m. the same day, both with Jennifer. People ask me what I thought of it, and I come up blank. But I have to say SOMETHING, so I will say this: I liked it. It was different than I thought it was going to be. It was dark drama. No big screaming "WOW!" from me, but still... it was good. If you go see it, stay past the end credits. There is a last, lovely scene. Maybe I've got post-obsession letdown now. I hate to admit that I am a little burned out on the X-Files. What now?


• Jennifer and I had a nice little time at our nice little hotel in downtown DC. We walked to the movie theater for our second viewing. This resulted, deservedly so, in bruised and blistered bottoms of my feet. Culprits: cute shoes and dim wits. What was I thinking, you ask? Not a durn blasted thing. Nary a thought was in my head. Anyway, when we returned to the hotel room I went to sleep and stayed that way the whole rest of the day and then the night. And Jennifer didn't seem to mind, bless her lovely heart. She even went to get us dinner and brought it back.


• There was a little box in the hotel room with a shower cap in it. I remember being very excited about shower caps when I was a wee one. I remember how they feel on the head and how it sounds when the shower water hits it. I remember it makes your ears get especially wet. But that was the 70s, so I have an excuse, I guess. What about now? I would love to know what percentage of guests at The Madison Hotel actually take advantage of this amenity. And WHY they take advantage of this amenity. I am rather fascinated. And impressed that the hotel caters to ALL of its guests, even the rare ones with beehive hairdos. That's allowing for diversity if ever anyone has allowed for diversity. Here is a picture of my monitor wearing the present subject of discussion. And a picture of my cup of diet caffeine free Coke wearing the present subject of discussion.