We're supposed to battle mice in winter, not JUNE.

Crikey, I think Reepicheep just ran across the dining room floor, under the piano. And he was naked.

It's Later than You Think

madmanofprague linked to this wiki page about Göbekli Tepe, the oldest place of worship ever found. How old? Older than 9000 BC.

That is to say, perhaps 7000 years older than the Pyramid at Giza, and 6000 years older than the earliest structures at Stone Henge. The site predates the life of Moses by about 7500 years, and is significantly older than anything we'd recognize as Judaism. It may have been occupied and used for 2000 years, longer than any Christian temple.

The architects and first worshippers lived in a world with Wooly Mammoths. In fact, the Mammoth would not go extinct for another 7000 years.

It is an interesting perspective. You wonder what the world was like, then.

Visitation!

wggthegnoll and ruiskafeck have moved into town, and we drove out to visit with them last night. We marking both their arrival in the area, and wggthegnoll's birthday. I had a yummy ice cream smoothie.


There was lasagna!


I like this shot of velvetpage.


After supper, there was much conversation and company. I learned that j_cat had sent me along a present.


Around 10 PM we went down to the basement to try our hand at Rock Band. I'm not so good at it. velvetpage and I played "Eye of the Tiger" on "Beginner".


wggthegnoll and ruiskafleck went to town on Crazy Train, set for "Hard." All in all, a capital evening, and we're glad to have them in the neighbourhood.