I lay there. My need for instant gratification has transcended into a need for delayed inevitable discomfort, namely getting into the shower and starting this wicked Thursday. It's the same every day - the monotony broken up only by the occasional shave. I feel unhealthy this morning. When I blow my nose the quantity of mucus is too much for the tissue. My shit is dense and loose so the toilet looks like some horrible black and tan.

Yesterday Craig told me that he lives where the turds come out. A portion of Milwaukee's sewer system and storm sewers share pipe. When it rains a lot they fill up and the treatment stations can't handle the volume of rainwater and shit and piss so they dump it into the river that leads to Lake Michigan. Craig said there's a little fenced-in building with a sign that says "MMSD" and a big pipe. His theory is that this is where the turds come out. 1.5 billion gallons of turds, to be exact. The last sewage dump was 1.5 billion gallons.

Craig and I tried to compute 1.5 billion gallons relative to the volume of Lake Michigan. Here's a fun, useful fact for you. Google can convert anything to just about anything. We found that Lake Michigan is 1180 cubic miles in volume. We typed in "1,180 cubic miles = ? gallons" and google told us the volume of Lake Michigan is 1.29931823 x 10^15 gallons. You can fit a lot of turds in 1.29931823 x 10^15 gallons of lake. Google can convert feet to cubits, minutes to fortnights, seconds to decades, whatever you want. x units = ? other units.