I’m sick. I’ve been sick for a week and it only got worse today when I realized I had a fever. The doctor gave me some heavy duty cough syrup to knock me out tonight since the NyQuil didn’t have much effect so that should be fun. Apparently I have some sort of flu-like thing, but not the typical flu that’s going around…whatever that means.

But, before I realized I had a fever, Katie and I attended the Flyers / Capitals game yesterday to watch the Caps win 2-1! We’ve had the tickets since Christmas as a present from my brother and I’d been looking forward to it for a while. I didn’t realize how easy it would be for us to get to the stadium area (Phillies, Eagles, 76ers, and Flyers all play in buildings within walking distance of each other) and it was a short subway ride to get there. Going to definitely attend a Phillies game or two once the season kicks off.

Flyers fans (and I guess Philly fans in general) were pretty brutal. They booed the refs before the game even started and cheered when one got knocked down mid-game. Then after each of the Capitals starters names were announced the entire sold out crowd yelled together, “SUCKS!”. Not to mention the boos every time the league’s best player (and Washington Capital) Alex Ovechkin touched the puck.

Unfortunately, I forgot my camera so I only snapped one quick photo of warmups with my phone. Katie and I quietly cheered for our team and respectfully clapped when we scored. A louder Caps fan near us was being heavily berated by those around him and I wasn’t much in the mood for that being sick and all … plus it’s not like it’s a baseball game or something, it’s hockey.

On a related note, I just realized the Phillies play the Orioles in June! Though I’m not sure we’ll still be in Philly then…

We’ve got a mouse. A little furry brown mouse. Katie saw it scurry away two nights ago when she turned the bedroom light on and we both saw it last night when he decided to come make a cameo appearance in the living room for about 5 seconds.

Our landlord shows no reaction to anything – I don’t think he actual feels feelings. Usually our conversations involve a lot of me talking and him blankly staring back making for some awkward silences. In addition to being our landlord, he also owns and runs the pharmacy on the first floor of our building which looks like it hasn’t changed in 50 years (including some of the products for sale!). He’s a pretty weird dude, usually wears a light blue pharmacy guy jacket, and still uses a manual typewriter to put up little notes for the tenants.

Today I walked in to the pharmacy, greeted him, and told him we have a mouse. He said nothing but did immediately walk past me and behind one of the display counters in the store. Out of a cabinet he gave me two boxes, one with mouse traps, and one with mouse poison, still saying nothing. “Thanks, hopefully this does the trick”, I said to which he replied, “I think you have a package here” and pointed towards a box containing a mail-order cake which I had been waiting for. How long it had been there I’m not sure since I received no notice of a package arriving.

Anyways, I set up the poison and traps so now we’ll just wait and see. I learned a new word from the back of the poison box: rodenticide.

About everyone I know has been swearing by Netflix for years (stanus.butt mentions it in 11 posts!)… I’ve finally signed up and have about 150 movies between my DVD and instant queues… about half of which will be feeding my documentary obsession. Well maybe not an obsession, but it is certainly one of my favorite genres.

What made me finally sign up for Netflix was The West Wing. Originally airing in 1999, I was about 10 years late to this series. I’m a little backwards but I really liked Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip created by Aaron Sorkin and thought The West Wing might tickle my fancy. Katie and I started watching/DVRing reruns on TV and realized we were missing episodes and needed to see them all. Netflix to the rescue! Quickly becoming bsessed with the entire series, we finished the whole thing in a couple months time mostly with marathon weekend watches (I believe our record was seven episodes in a single day!)

My other relatively recent TV discovery(within the last year or so) was House This was a little easier to catch up on since the overlying story is less central to each single episode storyline (for the most part). This is probably my favorite currently-airing show at the moment. A 2008 episode titled “It’s a Wonderful Lie” guest-starred Janel Moloney who was also on … The West Wing.

Because a lot of House reruns air on the USA network I randomly have started watching Psych, a comedy about a fake psychic detective duo also on USA. Psych co-stars Dulé Hill who was also on… The West Wing. On tonight’s season finale one of the guest actors looked really familiar and I knew I had seen him on something recently… a mere five days ago this actor (Jimmi Simpson) was a patient on the latest episode of House!

Lastly, another comedy/detective show that I have watched a bit more recently is Monk because it usually airs directly after Psych! Last month an episode aired titled “Mr. Monk on Wheels” which guest-starred Bradley Whitford who was also in Billy Madison, Philadelphia (which I randomly watched recently to check out the Philly scenes), and … (you should see where I’m going with this by now) The West Wing!

Follow all that?