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IAN: August 20, 2023 - The Saga Continues, or: I blather on [1]
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Date: 2023-08-19
We will see what happens. For the news, I hope it happens soon; for the personal, I hope it happens.
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Archaeologists don’t want to open the tomb of China’s first emperor because of evidence that historically rumored boobytraps actually exist.
Stuffed eggplant. From The Guardian.
It appears the first cattle brought to the Americas came from Africa.
Four-cheese greens lasagne. Again, from The Guardian.
An excavation has begun where 35 German soldiers and a French collaborator were supposedly executed and buried during WWII.
The absolute best diner in each state, according to Reader’s Digest. The one they say is the best in Oregon is about six blocks from where I live.
From the New York Times: how documents are preserved at the National Archives.
The Mediterranean as shown in some of the earliest surviving photographs.
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My mother is moved. She is unhappy with the situation, of course, but she couldn’t cope with staying where she was, not matter how much all of us wanted her to stay there. The remaining major problem is what to do with her poor cat, who will initially be moved with her, but she’s not treating him well from what I hear.
It’s been miserable hot here — thankfully, not as hot as was predicted, but still, …. I had to reschedule my chiropractic appointment, which ended up happening on the hottest day we had. My chiropractor would have been happy to let me sit in one of her rooms that wasn’t in use, but I hadn’t had breakfast. I ended up having a nice leisurely lunch in a very comfortably air-conditioned restaurant.
My bank has been a bit haphazard about telling their customers about who deals with checking for invalid charges on cards. Since I had no idea why a company called Shazam would be calling me, I hung up on them. Why they would think my standard sort of purchases from Amazon, of all places, would be invalid, damned if I can figure out. The problem has been taken care of.
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