Head Colds and Head Kicks

Fireworks are an amazing thing, they're beautiful to look at, the sound and the memories they evoke from Fourth of July to random sporting events. We'll spend one hour per year watching them but we create a huge theme around the sparkling lights. This year I opted to watch them indoors because I'm sick and I realized that I wasted thirty minutes watching them on TV. There's no comparison to watching them live, on TV I may as well be watching a crappy Lifetime movie with poor camera angles. Although the dialogue was better for the fireworks.

I do have some sad news. I'm sick, like as in really sick for the past week. I have a Summer head cold, and no one seems to be giving me enough sympathy. Yeah, ok, my boss had the same cold and it turned into pneumonia (I've had it so many times I spell it right on the first try!). Still, I'm pretty sick, and it's Summer time. So here I go walking from my apartment, to my car, to work, probably drove there although you couldn't tell from my grammar, walked back to my car from work, drove home, and then rest in my apartment. I'm going stir crazy and it's beautiful out. I want to run sprints up the insane hills by my house. I want to do some sparring and work the bag. I want to kidney punch a few pedestrians. But nooooo, I have to rest and get better. I can't just run buck wild during Summer. I can't even have Sangria despite having an awesome recipe for it! SO yeah, whoa is me.

Speaking crushing people, here's one of my favorite quotes because it's so bad ass. Louis the XIV of France (yes France), was kind of a bad ass. And he had a favorite saying in Latin, "Ultima Ratio Regum", which translates into "The Final Argument of Kings". He had his favorite saying put on ever cannon in the kingdom. His thought was that we can talk, and negotiate, and deal. But the final argument I'm going to use will come at the end of this cannon. Gangsta. French Gangsta. Poofy shirts?

Travel pic today comes from the Palace at Versailles. I'm not sure what the artist was think but I really liked this statue. There was just a lot going on. Salute!