Livin with the Mek

Pretty exciting weekend around the apt.... Friday I woke up and couldn't talk at all, bad cold. It was so bad that I couldn't even call into my phone at work to change my voicemail - all I could do was whisper. I didn't feel all that bad otherwise, but I decided to stay home. I've been trying to finish the hardest PlayStation game I've ever played, Call of Duty: Finest Hour, so I was on that for about 5 hours. I never got through it on Friday, but I knew I had all day Saturday and Sunday to try as well. I finally broke through Remagen Saturday morning and took the bridge on the Rhine later that afternoon, completing the game. That made me feel better.

I didn't have the energy to start Call of Duty; The Big Red One on Sunday so I just sat in the chair, flipping channels. On the Travel Channel at noon I came across a show "The Adventures of Mark and Olly: Living With the Mek". It's about 2 guys that travel to countries with remote locations that ancient tribes still live in. They try to make friends with them and live with them for 3 or 4 months. The tribe they were befriending were the Meks of Papua New Guinea, who used pigs for money, wrote off a case of Malaria as witches coming into their village to suck their blood and smoked cigarettes all day. Serious. I don't know where they got tobacco from, but the head chief just sat their all day smoking ciggy's.

9 hours later I had watched every single episode in the series and also the first episode of the new series "Living with the Mechigenga", a tribe in the Amazon rain forest. It seems like this tribes solution to issues of not liking someone is to kill them and skin them out. I suppose any police or authorities being a 7 day trek through snake infested rain forests away from them allows for that sort of luxury. This tribe also favors making beer out of sugar cane and their spit instead of smoking cigarettes. Appently and ironically enough, this tribe killed a guy and skinned him out for smoking in front of them about a year ago. Anyways, now I have this show on Sunday's, Man vs. Wild on Monday's and The Office on Thursday's to watch....... once baseball season starts and the Twins are on again, I may never leave the house.

One other note, it's really hard to avoid a person in a two bedroom apt. so they don't get sick as well. Cross your fingers that she avoids this plauge.