Oh, Texas, Our Texas, All Hail the Mighty State!

The excuse for my visit was to help Ben move stuff. And once that was done, attend the housewarming party. It was good times. I got to see Mr. Sanders, which is always a pleasure, however hung over he might be. And we managed not only to get Catfish out of the house, but keep him out of the house for a whole nine hours. This shattered the previous record by about eight hours. Usually he does his classic Catfish drive-by: show up, say as little as possible to as few people as possible, and leave without saying "goodbye" to anyone.

The highlight of the party was an absolutely epic game of jenga. Yes, I said epic. I predicted at the begining that I'd lose the game, and I was right. What I had no idea was that the four of us would end up playing for about 45 minutes. I had a pounding headache after it was done from all the stress. The piece I pulled out was literally one of three avaiable pieces. Unbelievable.

Catfish was in top form all weekend. And he gave a bit of advice that does me absolutely no good, but it might be useful to someone:

The secret to successful drug usage is to always keep this phrase in mind: "I'm on drugs".

For example, the unsuccessful drug user, after taking three hits of acid, looks over and sees the walls melting, and says, "Good God! The walls are melting! This would be an excellent time to start freaking out!". The successful drug user says, "Wow! The walls appear to be melting. Isn't that interesting? Of course, the walls aren't actually melting, they just look that way to me, because I'm on drugs."

Seems simple, but it's not.

He also mentioned a neat trick to turn cheap vodka into expensive vodka: Get a big jug of the cheap stuff and run in through a Brita pitcher. He'd never tried it and I'm off the sauce myself, but that's probably worthwhile information to someone.

Yeah, fat lot of good those did me, but hey.

Anyway, I'm back home now. St. Louis is my goldilocks town. When I go to Oklahoma City, I think that that place is too small. And when I go to Dallas, I think that that place is too big. This place is just about right.