Apparently there are indignities Belgian won’t suffer, even under penalty of international embarrassment and ridicule. They are a tolerant and wise nation, but do not ask them to forgo beer at lunch.

Members of Iran and Belgian’s parliaments were set to meet in a power luncheon in Belgium when Iranian Diplomats requested that their Dutch speaking counterparts not serve alcohol.

“Even for the tolerant Herman De Croo, that was a bridge too far,” De Croo, a Dutch-speaking Liberal, told De Standaard daily Thursday.

Alcohol free lunch…bridge too far…got it.

Now I understand why there hasn’t been a new drug introduced on the European Market in over ten years. What’s left undone before lunch is what is left undone.

Due to technical difficulties yesterday the site may or may not been accessible at certain points of the day. At present, this issue has been addressed. To the best of my knowledge besides a reboot in March, this was the only site outage thus far this year. My goal is 100 percent uptime and while there are just a few other accounts on this box that can impact the server, the goal is a reach sometimes.

The book buy went well; I secured lots of titles normally unavailable. Not sure if that was because there was just more stock, or if the competition was busy elsehwere in the warehouse. Maybe it was a combination of both.

Been on a writing tear for the past few days, a positive trend I trust ( and hope ) continues.