Switched to Best Western Montgomeryville. Every kind of department and food store in existance is within walking distance
from here. My commercialism drought is over. The hotel is very
60’s kitsch. It smells like hotels in my distance memory have always smelled. They must have some kind of secret air
freshener that you can only get from hotel air freshener vendors. The place I was staying at in Fort Washington was apparently
out of that stuff. Maybe it got lost in the flooded basement.
Waiting for new ”South Park” episode to come on. Promos say that the characters are gonna say sh*t on television without
getting bleeped. I don’t get it. They say sh*t on 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II whenever they feel like it. They were
quoting the book some guy wrote that Timothy McVeigh had read and one of the lines had the word sh*t in it. Big deal.
I’ve had cable since 1980. I was introduced to dirty television by The Movie Channel where I saw ”Motel Hell” and
”Swamp Thing” in rotating cycles, interupted by repeated viewings of ”Coal Miner’s Daughter.”
Had a dream last night that a character from Star Trek: Voyager (Captain Janeway) was the cleaning lady at the hotel and
wouldn’t stop knocking on the door. She wanted to clean the room. I kept telling her to give me half an hour but she
was adament. Had to call the front desk to scare her off. Weird. Woke up in a sweat. Need to stop falling asleep with the
TV on.
Wondering how much mail has piled up now that I’ve been out of town for two weeks. Two more days and I’m back in
H-town. I’ve notified Joe Isuzu. He’s going to have an Isuzu Trooper waiting for me at the terminal. The last thing I did
before leaving my car at the terminal parking lot was bumping the rear bumper into the wall. Not too hard, but still, I hate
that. Even though my car is 1200 miles away, I’m worried about that scratch. And I miss my dog. I’ve been hitting the
pet stores here to tide me over. Hope he doesn’t forget me. Maybe I’ll have a lifesize cutout poster made and placed in
the kitchen so he’ll see it every day. Must talk to the roommate about that. Potential to scare of burglars is high.
