After months of dreaded anticipation that I would get to look at my own apartment building, Google Maps finally uploaded my neighborhood. The van with the cameras drove around during the summer and to my pleasant suprise, they captured the Milwaukee Brewers flag hanging in my door. Awesome.

If you go around back you’ll find my car parked in its spot. I assume I was at work on this day.

The other day, I was told that Milwaukee’s street view was published and after poking around, I discovered that they covered my hometown suburb. I took a look at my parents house and noticed something strange…besides the unfortunate fact they drove by while the garage door was open. It turns out my car was parked out front…

My car is in two places at once. Either google is stalking me, or I have yet to harness my car’s superhero abilities.

All privacy issues aside, you can kill a lot of time on Google street view. It’s a fun and scary tool.

The flu virus made its way through my body and it took another five or so days to feel right again. I finally made it back to the gym yesterday and today woke up no worse for wear. Things I would have otherwise blogged about since my last post:

- TBS airs four episodes of Home Improvement between 11am to 1. Though many would argue that is four episodes too many, I found myself laughing more than once. The particular episodes I saw were from the final season. JTT left the cast and the writers were forced to focus more on Tim and Al. With out the JTT factor, the show became more tolerable.

- Breaking Bad is another recent discovery on my TV list. Malcolm in the Middle’s Bryan Cranston churns out a crazy performance as a high school chemistry teacher who learns he has inoperable lunch dinner cancer…this leads to him to begin a Meth operation with a former student who flunked his chemistry class. Hilarity ensues…under a really dark cloak.

- Being sick helped me finally reach my target weight of 187. Now the challenge becomes maintaining myself and getting “down” to 180. Steady visits to the Y will help, but I’ll need more work on curbing my gluttonous ways.

- The aforementioned Platy population; has increased from its original four to over 20 in different stages of development. A camera does nothing to capture the creepy feeling I get when I see so many identical looking fish in one tank. Anybody need a hardy live-bearing fish?

- Last week’s laundry session was highlighted by the fact that my Kirkland brand laundry detergent didn’t really dissolve in the washers. I was frustrated enough to leave the detergent at the laundromat with the word “free” written on top. It’s one thing to incur side-effects like stains or my clothes not getting as clean as I would have liked. It’s another for the product to not even perform its basic function. Aside from their trail mix, I will never use Kirkland brand products again.

Right on schedule, folks. Just like in February of 2007, 2006 (no post) and 2005, I’m sick. Fever, aches, coughing. Good times. This isn’t what I mean when I needed tonight off to rest and take care of things like taxes. Ho well.

Apparently you don’t guard your Marshall as a decoy…unless your opponent’s Miner diffuses the bomb within the first five minutes of battle. The odds of that happening were quite lower than expected. My flag (and dignity) was surrendered without conflict.

Two things:

1) I put my old TV in the kitchen temporarily. However since its intended use is complete, I’ve been lazy about putting the TV back in storage. Lately I’ve been watching over-the-air TV while cooking. I understand why people have televisions in the kitchen…but something as big as that? Hm. Now I’m considering keeping it around. Yea or nea?

2) There are a lot of TV stations broadcast over the air these days. I counted almost fifteen. Being in a large city helps but when I was growing up, the number of over the air TV channels numbered half of that. More surprising to me was that theres apparently a market for over-the-air Korean television with local commercials. Will the Filipino channel be far behind? Who knows…