I think I must be at or near the age where a majority of those whose sacrifices we celebrate today were younger than me.

Thank you.

Never trust a building with a mansard roof...

It's been a strange few days in some ways...
Fun, but strange.

Two nights in a row I had dreams about two different former gfs...

I think that accounts for the strangeness.

Oh yeah, and Bavaria... it really does deserve it's status as offical morning after breakfast locale...
If you're ever in town you should check it out.

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

Thank goodness I'm seemingly not a 'great, world-historical ... personage'

Although perhaps that would allow me laugh more.

I go to the trouble of waking up at 0730 hours on a saturday to put in some morning overtime, ride down to milwaukee, wait in traffic, 'trunk' in the parking lot, and enjoy a delicious Klement's brat, and the Brewers still get trounced by the Twins of all teams.

Next time I guess I need to hold onto my tastebuds and drink something that's good enough (or better than it has to be?), rather than some other brewer's product.

While I apreciate the sentiment, I'm not certain this is what you want to see on the back of the semi driving next to you...

"...[T]ake up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God..." -- Ephesians 6:16-17

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." -- Winston Churchill

I love the smell of fresh asphalt in the morning.