Tuesday, July 20, 2004

I've been in Milwaukee since Sunday and I've learned a couple of things.
#1 - I don't like German food.  We've eaten at two different German resturants - both of them fairly renound, and both blew.  Comon - who eats Saurkraut Strudel?  Nasty. 
#2 - Milwaukee means "City by the River".  I learned this from my cab driver today.  My new resolution is to start trying to interact in some small way with the people i come into contact with when I travel.  I started talking to the people sitting next to me and my cabbies.  My cab driver on Sunday tried to convert me to Islam.  The one today was from Nigeria.  He's been here for 28 years and learned the meaning of hte word "Milwaukee" from a book about Jeffrey Dahmer.  Why did he read the book you ask?  He used to manage the building that Jeffrey Dahmer rented a room in and for some reason that book described the origin of the word.
 
Went to the casino tonight.  Won $325 in blackjack.  I've got a 7AM flight and a 5AM wake up call.  I'm home tomorrow and I'm on vacation next week.

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