3,000 Years and a Five Run Lead

Plotnik hopes you all saw translator Leelo's comment on the Estonian Mistletoe blog of the day before yesterday. How can you not love the internet? And music too, of course. And how in the world did Leelo find The Great Plotnik to comment?

Meanwhile, it's almost scary down here. Nobody in the family is feuding with anyone else. What's wrong? Plot, Duck and Mummy P drove down to McCain County last night to have a great dinner at Brother Schmeckl's house. There was barbecue, and fun conversation, a lot of laughs, a ballgame on the big screen and also an afternoon's visit to the Terra Cotta Warrior exhibit at the Bowers Museum in Shanta Shmana.



Say what you will about our religions -- and except for Plottnikism they are all pretty loony -- the fact is nothing has changed for a jillion years. Old King Qin had his entire army built out of terra cotta, in full armor and in battle positions, to protect his crypt in the afterlife. If we did that, somebody would have cheated on the contracts and the soldiers would have been dust in a year an a half. King Qin's warriors have been there for 3,000 years.

So roll around those rosary beads and don't eat any pork. We're all just scared little humans, frightened even with a five run lead in the Ninth.