I sat outside during lunch time today on the 16th street mall, right at this corner actually, having a coffee and a biscotti while reading the New York Times... It's a beautiful day today -- 60's and sunny blue sky here, while the whole D.C. area is shut down under a ton of snow... This is typical Denver weather. Denver has the most sunny days per year of any U.S. city, on average.

There were some French-speaking people sitting near me. I think they might have been Canadian due to the twang in their accent, but I'm not that good at placing French accents, since I don't speak it... ;) I only know a bit about the difference because of my friend Albert Drouart, who I went to Nishimachi and Carnegie Mellon with, and who grew up speaking both French and English...

In these situations, I always wonder what European tourists think about the U.S. I wonder if they were mentally ridiculing me as a hypocrite for sipping a cappuccino while Bush is getting his war on... Or whether they were just enjoying the weather...