War Games are in full swing, and have been for almost 5 hours. Ca-Ching. Each explosion has to cost thousands of dollars and there have been hundreds of them. Most of them don’t shake the walls, although a couple have startled both me and my dogs.

I can’t imagine those many, many places in the Middle East where children grow up with this as a daily event. I am just spoiled, I guess. This would explain the closures. Better the military does this now, rather than toward the end of a very dry summer, when they have started many a fire. I just hope there is a curfew on this puppy, so I am not listening to explosions in my sleep. Would make for interesting dreams.