Today, in lieu of my waning finances (I use complex words on this blog), I decided to take a walk through the beautiful city of Boise and see if people were hiring. Here is a picture of me in Julia Davis Park, where I stopped for a moment because the rain had gone from a light drizzle, which was kind of nice, to a slightly thicker downpour, and I was starting to get soaked.

Note the headphones. A lot of Oh No! Oh My!, Animal Collective, Lykke Li and The Dodos were listened to as I made my trek. Honestly, it takes about 30 minutes to walk from my house, maybe 45 at most, to the downtown area, and if you know the right backroads it’s a really pleasant walk. Except when it rains.

The building in the distance in this picture is a hotel, right next to “BoDo,” which is short for Boise Downtown. People in business suits had a meeting and came up with that name. The citizens did not. We just called it 8th Street. That’s a perfectly good name for that area of town, but noooo …

These people in suits also came up with the Linen District, where, apparently, people make linen.

And last but not least, a funny random picture in JDP. I hadn’t even thought to start taking pictures with my cell camera until I saw this. I knew I’d want to take a picture of it.

So it rained so much that I opted to walk to 8th St and see a movie at Edwards. Iron Man was playing at just the right time so I saw it, with about four people total in the theater. That movie is bad ass, by the way. I thoroughly enjoyed it, even if I don’t understand the consistent necessity of an electromagnet in your chest. I mean, I understand that he had shrapnel heading for his heart, but wouldn’t a) an electromagnet rip that shrapnel out in the first place, and b) well, when the thing is taken out of his chest he goes into cardiac arrest. Does that mean when there’s no chest thing the shrapnel starts moving again?

I mean, it’s a small thing, cause it’s a superhero movie, but it doesn’t make sense to me. The chest thingy is suspending the shrapnel around his heart, so why does he go into cardiac arrest? And if it’s not just cardiac arrest, but rather some kind of shrapnel movement, then is that reversible, as in, does the electromagnet pull the shrapnel back a little bit? If not, then the damage done without the electromagnet would be irreversible, and so each time the magnet thing was taken out, he would be closer to death, until one day it comes out and the shrapnel pierces his heart and he bleeds internally, etc etc etc.

Also, how does shrapnel move like that? I don’t doubt that it does, I assume it is linked to involuntary breathing muscles and the heartbeat, etc, but it still seems weird.

Anyway, this is all nitpicky, cause the movie was great. It just sort of struck me as odd.

I didn’t stay to watch the Avenger thing at the end, because I was the only one in the theater at that point and the clean up crew looked anxious. But I enjoyed it.

I think I might go out walking tomorrow too. It’s good exercise, plus it gets me out of the house. We’ll see how my legs feel in the morning (I’m sure they’ll be fine).