Things to do:
1. Order that Gregorian Hymns CD
2. Pick up some gift wrap
3. Cancel plans to sack and loot cities.
Do I have time to sack and loot one more city? Perhaps after I put the City of Fairfax to the torch and drive its inhabitants before me, I can let them come back on the condition that they do something about the traffic. But then I would have to sack and loot Centreville and Manassas first, so that the Fairfax refugees would have someplace to go. But then how would that impact the Northern Virginia bloggers?
Maybe I’ll sack and loot Frederick, Maryland, instead. They should be accustomed to being sacked and looted from their Civil War days, and if I make them do something about the traffic before they return — why, that would help everybody! My husband and I are leaving on a cross-country trip next week, and we were considering leaving on Tuesday afternoon to make some more headway. But unless we can leave at two in the afternoon, we might as well scrap it. Any time we gain will be lost sitting in that traffic on I-270 just south of Frederick.