Watched, and Watching: The Daily Show's Coverage of the US Government Shutdown

As represented by Samantha Bee and Jason Jones as Team Incompetence and Team Nihilism, respectively. Ha! Hahaha! Hahahahahaha....ha......OSDIFJSDOIFJSODIFJOSIDUFSOIDUEOTT903u(#3WJRWER*W$R(#JSF)(JRW#RJSDKLFJSODIFJSDOIFJOIGDHOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sorry that strangled, maniacal outburst was my distress over watching this happen, helplessly, from 1000 miles away. Not that I would feel any more empowered stateside, but as a completely removed spectator (who at the moment has bangin' Hungarian/EU health insurance!) I have no choice but to rant to my 8th grade civilization class. What other choice do I have? NONE.

Odishi/Saiyishi.

Some Friends' Villages, One Very Hot Weekend: Odishi

Water buffalo roaming the fields.

The finest of watering holes.

 Sausage!

 Cooking, Part I. Yay, vegetables!

Sayishi

 Cooking, Part II. Mitigating the broken egg disaster.

Sunset in Sayishi.

Mama and her kitties! Heart-melting.

Churches.

Various churches and monasteries around Tbilisi:

Yes, on the left, that is a bundle of hooves hanging by string from a rusty hook in front of a meat shop. And yes, that is a plastic bag of entrails on the right. And yes, we were stopped in front of this shop because our marshrutka driver wanted to pick up a few things for dinner that night. The sign reads, "Meat. Cow. Pig's." Now I'm not sure about "Parshi" but Google Translate suggests both "shield" and "forcemeat", whatever that is, as possible English translations. So there you are.

Monastery. Forget the name, my bad.

GIANT Kavkasiuri Nagazi (I assume) shielding the monastery's Toyota/bee hive collection. Thing was scary.

Ertadsminda. (I think.)

The inside. Was promptly scolded by the priest and informed that one should not be taking pictures inside a church, thus the lack of any other inside pictures.

Doom brewing early in the day.

Mtskheta church, the biggest in Georgia.

Terrifyingly/awesome unsafe ancient stone bridge. And two views (out, down) from said bridge.

From the top.

Also, up.

Rkoni.