God willing, you're reading this while I'm in England, celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary with Marie. We are staying in Camden [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Camden]. We are very close to the Charles Dickens Museum [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens_

St. Dann You ever notice how many saints die of drug overdoses? It's amazing. A newspaper article will recount a man or woman's last days in a way that makes the person sound sweeter than St. Francis, and then, buried in the middle of the article,

"St. Pancras is believed to be the first Christian church in England, established by Augustine himself, and is reported to contain the last bell which was able to toll during the Mass." Peter Ackroyd. Later this month, I'll be staying in the heart of St. Pancras.

More Miscellaneous Rambling Last Saturday presented yet another example of why neo-Prohibition tactics are harmful. Our school sponsored its annual big fundraiser (chicken dinner and raffle party). For years, a parishioner donated a bottle of wine for every table, with the result that people got smashed people loosened up a

Do-it-yourself standing desk [https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5bkkjz/my_coworker_decided_he_wanted_a_standing_desk/] .

Miscellaneous Rambling My son wrote a college-admission essay. It was about why he values his Catholic faith. I told him that wasn't a good idea, given higher education's ensconcement in the far left. "You might as well," I told him, "write an essay

The Amish don't quite "get" it. From a real (not online) magazine cover:

Bullets I met Marie thirty years ago today. We met in a bar. She was 18 and needed someone to buy her alcohol. I was 20 and had a fake i.d. Thirty years . . . and many bars . . . later, we're still together. Upset alert: Michigan: Maryland is playing tough

BYCU This story has it all [http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/amid-disappointing-sales-bud-light-calls-early-end-its-rogen-schumer-campaign-174341] : Bud Lite doing poorly and its ads with the lamentable Amy Schumer doing poorly.

Miscellaneous Rambling "Since the first debate, there's a sharp drop in undecided voters in the polling averages. As people make up their minds, Trump is up and Libertarian Gary Johnson is down [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/01/as-people-make-up-their-minds-trump-is-up-and-johnsons-down/] ." Makes sense. Gary