I’m late on the Class Stuff because I’ve been building behind-the-curtain Underground Stuff, and realizing life isn’t actually a box of chocolates (as Forrest noted); it’s more a series of dominoes, each one falling when the one before it decides to stop standing.

Still, I’m not so busy that I missed today’s Important, Life-Altering Fact: Americans graze their way through 100 acres of pizza every day.

Personally, I’d account for a half-acre all on my own if the L&T didn’t ride herd on me, which is yet more proof I married above myself.

What else have I got?

Way Upstream publishes a killer short poem (shame on you fly fishermen) and a photo. Be literate for a change and visit.

Ian Rutter wants 70 seconds of your day to put a good word in for the Tellico River’s Brook trout (the Underground loves Brookies), which are threatened by erosion and the resulting siltation. Get a move on, Undergrounders.

Bacon to Fry (one of Buster’s gang) writes about a bad forest plan and elegantly captures the frustration of fighting tooth and nail to preserve a watershed against stupidity and greed. Don’t miss it.

Proposed Timber Harvest, Wilson River, OR

See you in class, Tom Chandler.