I was thinking, "Gee - it's a long way to Wisconsin from here".

Maybe I could drop in on my next trip through - but it's been a long time since I went that route, as I usually go to visit my brother and friends on the prairies through N. Michigan.

Looks as though we'll soon need a passport to go over the border (on land - need one to fly over, now) and I haven't had one of them in 40 years or so.

A guy at the *busy* passport office told me the other day that it'll cost me about $85.00.

Golly - one doesn't get anything free, anymore - except air.

And that's polluted, in spite of what Georgie boy and his oilfield buddies that hold positions of some authority claim.

I'd have said a few years ago that water was (almost) free.

And if anyone had suggested to me that people'd soon be buying water in little plastic bottles - and at a higher price per gallon than gasoline ...

... I'd have said that they were nuts.

And we complain about the price of gas - but not a peep about the price of water.

Plus the bottles won't degrade for something like 100 years. Plus some say that there's stuff in the plastic that leaches out into the water and makes it not good for us - especially if it sits in the sunlight for a while. (Maybe we should run that by snopes to see if it, too, is an urban legend).

And you tell me that humans are ratiional?

Do you know any other funny stories??

By the way - if the folks in cities who don't like the taste/smell/odour of the chlorine in the water ...

... leave it in a jug, sitting in the sun for a while - no more evidence of chlorine.

Our nearby univ. has movie nights, too, with similar listings, I think, but I think that there's a fee, possibly about half of the regular rate.

But it costs a mint to park there, probably about half of the price of the movie - maybe more.

When I used to attend the dental school, for teeth repair/replacement, I'd park about 10 blocks away, where it was free.

They say that we need exercise.

Have a lovely week, everyone.

ole joyful