The Weekend Eudemon

Online opportunities continue to escape me. A few short items this morning:

Interesting fact that sounds familiar but wasn't in the forefront of my consciousness: The Dead Sea is in some places 1,500 feet deep. Its bottom is the deepest natural hole in the earth, measuring about a half mile below sea level.

"In 1970, Americans spent just 26 percent of their total food budget eating away from home; in 2002, the number was 46 percent." Source: U.S. News & World Report, 12/25/2006, p. 50.

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death." Nathaniel Hawthorne