I found out what the dial next to the light switch is on the shower room is for. It sets what temperature of the floor tiles. So that way when I'm dancing naked, looking at myself in the mirror while singing "I'm too sexy...", my feet feel like the ceramic tiles are making sweet love to them. It is an experience to be sure.
Last night was a learning experience. I decided to check out a strip club in Oslo to compare them with Portland.
Bad idea.
Really bad idea.
While the women were beautiful and they did dance on a pole, that's not how they make their money. Y'know those ideas that only sound good when drunk? Yah. So I bought a couple bottles of champagne. No laps dances as while the gals get naked, they have to be on the other side of the room from you with a distance in between. So no difference between watching them on the pole and getting a lap dance, which costs 1200 kroner for 10 minutes. Well I was having fun talking to a gal from Portugal and one from Lithuania, so what the hell - bought champagne. Well, the two bottle ran me around 3600 kroner. Math at drunk am isn't good but I now know it was just under 600 bucks. Ouch.
Cest la vie. The lesson being, do NOT go to strip clubs in Scandinavia
So I made a decision to get pizza today. I was somewhat hung over and not in a sociable mood. So hit a chainish type place Pepe's Pizza down the road with "authentic" Chicago style pizza. The owner claims to have traveled the breadth of America to find the right type of pizza. This unfortunately if you only go into Dominos at each place you visit, you really learn little. The pizza was all right for a chain store, a step above Dominos but far below Pizza Schmizza. As to being anything vaguely like a deep dish Chigao style anything, that made me wonder if they went to a town called Chicago in New Mexico as they about as far from being a Chicago style pizza as any could imagine.
So no pics today. I'm just going to stay in and chill reading books, maybe hit a movie or watch TV. Just not in the mood for anything.
I did manage to get a hold of my bro last night and we made plans this morning. He's going to rent a car and come visit prior to bringing me to Gothenburg. So I got him a room for Friday and Saturday. We can hang out and maybe make some trips in the surrounding areas or some such. Yay!
$600 for a bottle o' grog? YIPES. Be gone w/ ya! I'm sorry, NO ONE does good "Chicago style" pizza outside of Chicago, much less any establishment in SCANDINAVIA. (Perhaps they'd do better Minn-e-sota style eats, eh? Oh, ya, real good, you bet.)
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