Headed out in an hour to drive to the Bay Area and drop Littlest Guy off at CTY camp at Stanford. CTY has been a great (if $pendy) experience for him so far, and I'm looking forward to how he does this time.

I'm looking forward to walking him around the campus and saying "...if you work really hard in high school, you get to go to college at a place like this..."

I'll get to see Joe and Sweetie, some old (long-time!! long-time!!) friends and enjoy California from behind a windshield with air-conditioning, not a helmet visor and Camelbak...

...Random thoughts:

Saw Batman last night and will have some comments when I get stationary - it seemed actually very relevant to some issues that we discuss here. And yes, it's that good.

And it's interesting how events trump politics, and how the changes in Iraq have dramatically changed what Iraq means to the election.

And on a final note, I do worry more than a little about our putting too big a footprint into Afghanistan.

More on all those in the next few days.