so st louis was cool. i got a hotel room, but i am not sure it was totally worth it. i only spent a couple of hours there cause i did a lot of adventuring in 'clayton' which is a suburb of the capital itself. i met some really nice junkies at the borders around the block from my hotel room, and talked about nothing in general. some really really funny people. got on top of the borders. got on top of my hotel. almost got arrested trying to get on top of a really big building. wandered wandered. but i did sleep really well that night. hmm... ok. what else. oh -- so washu was awesome again. the people at the advanced research lab are really cool. and supersmart too. so that rules. and i ate nonstop that day. i put away a big thai lunch, a really big continental breakfast, two cokes and about seven bagels with plenty of cream cheese. it was good. then i got on the early flight back. sadly, ray and mn and jeff were scheduled to come and pick me up from the airport. i didn't find out about that until way too late. oh well. so they were 'pissed' when they got back to the fort after i called them at hartsfield. but we had a great time. jeff and ray were loud motherfuckers -- they had me and marynell and ted rolling on the floor talking about the donkey butt and elephant shit and spies and who knows what else. it was awesome. but that meant that ray couldn't drink the next night -- ted's surprise birthday party. but he had a good time anyway. it was cool. ted was genuinely surprised. that was cool. we went to the waffle house. mm.. ok, so that wasn't very detailed, but that's my story.