Opportunity lost

See, THIS is why you don't want to have so many resources tied up in foreign wars. If we didn't have all our troops and materiel bogged down in Iraq & Afghanistan, we could act on this prime opportunity to roll north over the border and take over while they've got their pants down around their ankles. Really, you'd only have to go about 100 miles up and you'll have the vast majority of Canada's population wrapped up.

Naturally, we're not touching Quebec. They're too fiesty. Let them be their own country.

But everything else? OURS. Ours for the taking. If only.

ETA: You know, if it weren't for being overly busy with holiday stuff, I'd consider recruiting some like-minded folk to gather together a coupla troops of boy scouts and maybe some ROTC hotties from campuses near the border. Then off we'd go. Conquer Canada in a coupla hours, be home before dark.

Sigh.

My doctor's office instituted this wonderful Saturday morning clinic. They don't give out appointments until THAT MORNING. So if you need to get in, and you can't shoehorn yourself into their overly busy appointment book during the week, there's always Saturday. However, they start answering the phones at 7:45 am on Saturday, and by 8:00 am the appointments are usually all allotted. So you've got to call the minute they start answering phones.

Since I have this mysterious creeping crud/fungus/eczema/flesh-eating bacteria/poison ivy/who knows what it is on my right ring finger, and I can't take it anymore, and it's been three weeks, and conventional cures haven't helped at all, guess who's setting her alarm to get up early on her one day to sleep in?

Truthfully, if it meant getting this cleared up, I'd get up at 4:30.