I Can Kill You With My Brain

I tried an official Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff this morning for the first time in my life.  I’ve already taken heat from coworkers for being a Wisconsin resident my entire life and not having a cream puff until my 32nd year.  I’ll probably take mroe heat tomorrow when it comes out that I really didn’t enjoy it.  It did almost nothing for me.  It wasn’t bad, but I didn’t find it necessarily good, either.  The bottom line is I can’t picture myself ever wanting one again.

In my defense, I’ve never been a big fan of cream.  I scrape most of the cream off of ice cream sundaes when I have them.  I only add a little bit of whipped cream to my piece of pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving.  I’ve had the Strawberries & Crème Frappuccino at Starbucks both with and without cream on top and I know now that I do prefer it without the cream.

I’m just not a cream kind of guy, so it should come as no surprise that a desert that’s composed of a little bit of puff with a whole lot of cream would not appeal to me.  But, I still tried one, even though I didn’t have the highest of hopes.  I figured as a life-long Wisconsinite, it was my duty to at least try one.  Even though I didn’t enjoy it, I can at least say that I’ve had one.

This is Giles. She is one of two kitties that my best friends have. She wasn’t too thrilled about posing for this photo. I still like her, though.

The view from day 2 of training on the 31st floor. This time looking towards more of the downtown Milwaukee buildings.

The view from the 31st floor, where I’m in training for the next 2 days. That’s Lake Michigan on the right.

Yesterday we watched “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”, the original movie in the PotC trilogy.  I have probably seen this movie 10 times since it was released.  I’m a big fan and I love it.  Despite that, I was afraid that the movie wouldn’t hold up.  I have not seen it in over a year and my wonderful memories of it hype it up even more.  I was concerned I was going to be let down by one of my favorite movies of the last ten years.

I had no reason to be concerned.  The movie holds up wonderfully.  The action was still exciting, the story still engaging, and the dialog still brilliant.  I even found myself laughing out loud at much of the funny dialog, even though I knew most of the jokes that were coming.  “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” is a modern classic.  30 years from now it needs to be known as a true classic.  It is hands-down one of my favorite movies.