This weekend jets have been flying overhead constantly practicing for the Air and Water show, which is expected to draw a million people (!) on Saturday and Sunday. It reminded me of living in Dayton, Ohio, where the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (motto: "America's Parking Lot of Flight") had odd military aircraft flying overhead constantly. Can you imagine how unnerving it is to be walking to work and to hear a loud noise and to look up and there, in the narrow column of sky that the buildings afford you, is a smoke-spewing fighter jet corkscrewing towards the Aon Building?!? Jeez, an air show in a big city in America these days is like bringing your baby and his little rattle into the hospital to visit your friend who is sick from a rattlesnake bite. The intention is good but it's a little unsettling.

So we went to the zoo on Friday and the jets kept whizzin overhead and every time they shook the Big Cats building with their engine noise the lion would go ROOOOOAAAAARRRRRR as if to show the jet who's boss.