I just got back from two weeks in Russia, staying in Moscow, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo. I am way too tired to write much about it at the moment but, DAMN, that is one crazy-ass country. Much of it is beautiful, an awful lot of it is uglier than a dog's ass, and most of it is mad as a fish, but I'd put most of the dozens of Russians I met in the top 10% nicest people I've ever met in my life. Suffice to say I loved every minute of it and I'm already planning to go back. Two weeks was nowhere near long enough.

I must sleep now