I know I've mentioned it before, but Baghdad Burning is a really well written blog. The most recent post details how her cousin was spared from a car bomb by carrots.

Erin and I have been visiting the local area's national parks these last few days. Zion yesterday and Bryce Canyon the day before. Despite the 100% increase in entry fees ($20!), the parks are still wonderful. The geometry of Bryce is taken from some early 50's science fiction serial about mars. Improbably narrow spires and hoodoos stand like a sculpture garden, their orange and white surfaces seeming to glow from within, as the purple clouds of an approaching storm sulk overhead.

Zion is equally magnificent, a study in the meaninglessness of scale. Giant cliff faces, hundreds of feet high erupt from the canyon floor, their size making them seem by turns close and distant. Streams plummet from the highest sources, sending their waters down in ever changing but always repeating sheets that evaporate and tuen all to mist before meeting the earth.

Good stuff!

And today is the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth year of the new millenium. It's like when the odometer rolls over. Do we all get free ice cream today?