Was it something in the water at the Skyway Diner? Nope.

Did the glaring sun cause a flashback to late Beatles songs? (Before it became associated with heartburn, didn't acid-reflux mean a psychedlic flashback you felt in your gut? Maybe the transformation of the term is Janis Joplin's fault, for singing "take another little piece of my heart.")

No, I'm afraid the answer is I just went a little goofy.

Today we move indoors again, from the shelter of the black steel Pulaski Skyway to the, well, um, men's room of the Skyway Diner.

For some reason, this photograph makes me think of what Humphrey Bogart said to Ingrid Bergman in the last scene of Casablanca:

"It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.''

Like the Boardwalk, with its miles of herringbone wooden beams, the Pulaski Skyway, connecting Newark and Jersey City, offers seclusion and mystery under its miles of steel beams and concrete pillars.