I met a delightful old couple today, in Chicago. Their daughter had traced their geneology back to 303 A.D. They told me that their ancestor must have been in the army because he won a battle and some German king rewarded him by giving him some land and a woman. They thought that was real funny, that they'd give this dude a woman as part of a reward. They were cool because they didn't seem tired of each other at all, even though they were in their seventies. They still laughed at each others jokes, and they did it in a way that you just knew that they laughed that way together in private too.

Then I talked with a liberal Catholic monk on the plane from Chicago to South Bend. Arggh! I almost feel a little guilty for having such an amiable conversation with him. Nice enough guy, but he thought that the value in faith was the strength it would give you in time of crisis. Didn't matter so much what faith it was.

By the way, if you plan to go to the Singing in the Smokies on Sunday to see us, please realize it's $18 to get in. And another thing, we still don't know when on Sunday we'll be singing or even how many times we'll be singing. Hopefully tomorrow.

Tom wanted me to mention that I'm at my favorite commenter's house. Not sure why he thinks I would think he was my favorite commenter, seeing as he rips me in them!

But hey, we sang tonight. AHQ sang lots of songs tonight, and it wasn't like we missed a huge beat. We'll fine-tune tomorrow before our first concert at Todd Neuschwander's church.