At the time, just about anything that deviated from what we perceived as “daily norms” was cause of alarm. When the canal was attacked (minor nitpick; it’s actually more of an aqueduct) we went on lockdown, beer garden privileges were suspended, and we had to initiate a QRF (Quick Reaction Force) standby plan.

Now, we’ve had a failure of Kosovo to form a government following elections and mass protests in the streets of Belgrade, as the nearby Republika Srpska (it’s own thing in all this) is threating to secede from Bosnia-Herzegovina.

And we’re chilling; why? Because we now have a radically revised concept of what constitutes as “daily norms” for all things in the Western Balkans.

Call us when the bombs are dropping; otherwise, what time is brunch?