Weekend Wrap-Up

Home now (got in at midnight) from spending Memorial Day weekend in Tampa/St.Petersburg, Florida. The weather was wonderfully mild, and we had a great time with family and friends. We also had a delicious breakfast at "The Brunchery" on S. MacDill, Tampa (Palma Ceia).

Twice, we drove through heavy smoke, due to the wildfires that are burning out of control in Southern Georgia/North Florida. (Over the past few weeks, more than 740 square miles of forest have become charred in Florida and Georgia.)

For our 16-hour roundtrip journey between Atlanta and Tampa, we placed three bumper stickers on my car: "Support the Troops—End the War," "All Families Matter," and "John Edwards '08." Previously, my car only bore an HRC (Human Rights Campaign) sticker, and a "Gator Nation" (University of Florida) sticker.

My cohort, JNS, who thinks bumper stickers are "sooo tacky" (and I fully agree, except when there's an idiot in the White House, and an endless war raging on), has diplayed an "F the President" sticker on his Volvo for two and a half years now. (Sheesh, the things that King George has driven us to!)

As a blog-protest to the recent actions in Washington—which further prolong the war in Iraq, I will be posting Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" (as was posted on the Daily Kos on May, 28th, 2007).