Evolution of the Blog, with Roman Metaphors

After a hot start to the blog this year (first 3 posts in 3 weeks), my frequency had begun to dwindle, much like the decline of gladiator activity in the Colosseum in the fifth century A.D.  But like the battles that were temporarily revived soon after, the blog is back.  This may be analogy overkill, a word that could have also been used by medieval Roman intellectuals, for they feared the bloody battles had a negative impact on the values of participants and spectators.

Basically, we are at the Dublin hostel right now, counting the minutes until we can take the 3 a.m. shuttle to the airport for our flight to Paris.  We checked out at 10:30 a.m. yesterday because we are cheap and didn't want to pay for a final night, but we snuck back in to stay away from the Dublin cold and expensive pub brews.

We streamed a bunch of college basketball games and got in our recommended five fruits for the day with some delicious berry and pear Irish cider (and a banana).

The Pantheon blew my mind, and this will go down as yet another blog post in which I wanted to try to describe the awe-inspiring structure, and failed.

Until the next time...