Nathan, Josh, and I hung out for a while today. We stopped by On-Cue. I noticed they had the "Unforgiven" single by Metallica, so I got that. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, just usual crap.

I know I'm supposed to be intelligent and like obscure music that only genius hipsters have heard of, but I like several of Metallica's songs. I especially enjoy S&M (Symphony & Metallica), an album that came out last year, which combines symphony music and Metallica noise.

My cat Sam died last night. I was on my way to Albemarle this morning and saw him on the side of the road near the 'Steel Bridge'. I saw this little black mass on the dirt and I knew it was him. I kept driving for a minute before I turned around. I went to Doris' to get Carlyn. I didn't want to go get his body alone. I love my animals as if they were people. We pulled over and I went to make sure it was him. I put a towel around him and placed him in my car. I became very angry and started kicking everything and cursing as loud as I could. There was a couple in a canoe about twenty-five yards away, but I didn't care. When we got home, I dug a hole by the lake and put him in it. He shouldn't be dead.

"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." - Milan Kundera