I was looking at webcam footage from Boulder. It must be very nice there now . . .

P.S. I look forward to the reports. (Hint, hint.)

I is-pose the luna will soon be giving us some very good reports. Yes?

I was just cleaning out my purse and saw on my Yoshi's ticket:

Yoshi ticket said

Meet and Greet starts 1 hour prior to showtime!<.

Does that mean I was able to go back even though I had a cheap ticket? If so, please join me in kicking myself. Uh! Ooh! Ugh!

How does the melody to "oh sweet home" go? I've never known him to stray terribly off-script.

I had to catch a 12:55 out of San Fran. I got to the gate as they were boarding. I've got a bunch of nasty stuff to deal with here, too - reports, taxes, yuck, and yuck. If God wanted things to nitpick mileage for four hours, he wouldn't have created anything as beautiful as humankind, would he? I was listening to old Justin interviews today and wishing I knew how to break loose from being everybody's dweeb and follow my passion. I'm so afraid of being on the streets I kill my soul feeding the bureaucracy. I finally submitted to the ACA penalty. I wrote elsewhere it makes me feel like a gerbil on a Habitrail, wasting whatever gifts I may have to fuel a big, fat, inefficient bureaucracy. If all dweebs like me would go Galt, the beast would go away, and yet I numb my soul keeping track of how many miles it is from here to there. Oh, barf on me.

Then again, the venue in Tel Aviv looks lovely online, a nice amphitheatre in a land warm enough for palm trees. I have a lot of respect for Bibi, and I could use a Justin fix. Ya think?

I'm not quite catching the moral of the story. Are you saying Justin loves front rows and cares not who sits therein? I was too close at a couple shows this year. I swear I was giving Justin the creeps.

I'm getting jealouser and jealouser and jealouser. It's OK. I value eye candy and respect those willing to do what it takes to make the world a beautiful place. And I respect those like you and my sister who don't have to fix their hair or wear makeup, but just wake up beautiful every morning. And I adore the one and only Justin who is beautiful inside and out and even in my memories. Everybody else does, too, I gather. I'm recalling all the Detroit jocks' man crushes on him.

I was wandering around on Google Maps today, taking a tour of Tel Aviv. I went from the local airport to church (because they meet on Saturdays in Israel), then back to the venue. Up by the venue, things are nice, and there is a lovely, long promenade down the coastline. The church is in, shall we say, a district. It was sad. I wonder how people live in places like that, all busted up, from day to day. Why is there so much poverty in the world, and worse, why haven't we as a race found a cure for hunger or for people who like to tear things up for no reason?

And so what about the show being on Shabbat? It will probably be OK after sundown, but as for before, what would be expected of tourists? I mean, one wouldn't want to go to the Holy Land to break the Sabbath, or make one's manservant, maidservant, or taxi or bus driver do the same. I is-pose all would be fine if one were staying in a hotel on a long vacation, and only had to take a few steps over to the venue. Maybe the whole place is multicultural and secularized, and nobody below the clouds even gives a hoot. I'm just asking.

I like playing Google Maps.

I've always been in awe of the Treasury in Petra. How'd you like to make one of those?

What I was saying was, if airfare got stinkin' low, I could go to Tel Aviv on a daytrip. But flights appear only to arrive at 10:15 in the morning, unless I want to spend four days off work unpaid in the air. If I arrive at 10:15, I'll be 15 minutes late for church. I could take a taxi, but that would compel somebody to break the apparently national holy day, or if not, run against the grain of people trying to honor their God. Honestly, I'm trying to remind myself that God comes before Justin.