My Triumph

in one day i have gone hot air ballooning, i've listened to a child play a charming violin, i've attended many church services, i listened to a soldier sing the american national anthem, i watched a great junior league baseball game, visited a beach where they had built elaborate sand castles, rode with two kids in their car to the drive-thru pharmacy, watched many parents play with their babies, sat in with several auto and motorbike racers, flew over Vancouver island on a model airplane, watched a Bolivian parade of dancers go by, watched a parade of tractors go by, watched a beautiful news story on a woman who gave millions of people hugs, looked at kids skateboard around with their shirts off, watched a surfing competition, listened to a man talk about how happy he was to have won his 50th hot-rod race, walked through the Montreal Gay Pride parade, and watched the Dragon Boat races that took place in the same city on the same day. In fact all of the mentioned things all took place on July 29, 2007. That was the day I was supposed to have my Triumph parade, and I guess this can be considered it. But no one has called me "General" and my face was not painted red. I had waited on Triumphalis, and the only thing I got was I walk through time. All I ever wanted was a bit of cheese.