Solar max and magnetic flip…

by | Oct 20, 2013 | Journal

Solar magnetic flip I find it interesting: in my field (Mediterranean archaeology) there is some evidence that we get a weather Event every 500 years, and 2000 would have been one of those years. Understand, when you’re talking about such things, the edges are...

We went to lunch with a friend and blew it…

by | Oct 20, 2013 | Journal

..on a plate of loaded jo-jo’s. A, potatoes, like tomatoes are not our friends anyway: make the joints ache. B) neither is low carb, and particularly potatoes have starch, not our friend on this diet. The good news is, a typical small potato is 12 carbs, and...

Adventure for the day: 'lost' the current novel…

by | Oct 18, 2013 | Journal

Two items wanted a computer restart re updates: 1) Dell’s maintenance software and 2) one of the updaters both wanted a computer reboot. Did a warm reboot and the machine came up. In the process, I’d seen some junk in the Explorer files that was everything...

Adventure for the day: ‘lost’ the current novel…

by | Oct 18, 2013 | Journal

Two items wanted a computer restart re updates: 1) Dell’s maintenance software and 2) one of the updaters both wanted a computer reboot. Did a warm reboot and the machine came up. In the process, I’d seen some junk in the Explorer files that was everything...

We share another grandfather: my 19th, Jane's 21st.

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Journal

Thomas Knowllys (Knowles), Lord Mayor of London. He was mayor during the reign of the very mild-mannered and easily-shocked Henry VI of England, who mostly was interested in religion and education and seems over all to have been a pretty good king, if he had not lived...

We share another grandfather: my 19th, Jane’s 21st.

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Journal

Thomas Knowllys (Knowles), Lord Mayor of London. He was mayor during the reign of the very mild-mannered and easily-shocked Henry VI of England, who mostly was interested in religion and education and seems over all to have been a pretty good king, if he had not lived...

176! I am one pound away from what I was in 1978.

by | Oct 15, 2013 | Journal

We’re keeping to the diet. Jane’s on a heckuva plateau that’s fighting her hard, and she got an awful upset stomach from the mold involved in the fishtank cleanup downstairs—nothing would work to settle it, and she finally got it quiet with...

Frost on the local pumpkins…

by | Oct 14, 2013 | Journal

…and on the bridges. If I’m going to get the windows washed before it snows, I’d better get at it. Pretty soon we’ll have to roll up the hoses for the winter.