Back from Europe!

...back from absorbing foreign cultures and microbes. Back from the splendor and squalor of Rome. Back from the polite murmur of Parisians and the cheerful gutterality of Germans. Back from the crusty bread, ripe cheese, and new wine. Back to the Baptist heartland where water is ever so much more common than wine. Back to the world of macro-cars, macro-breweries, and macro-fat cells. No more paying for water, sleeping on trains, and traveling like turtles. Don't ask me how I liked it--my mind is still processing flying butresses and exchange rates.