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Attention What are you doing at the moment? 2024-25

and omg...I had one of those afternoon naps that was so deep when I woke up I thought it was morning and that we had left the tomato sauce on all night and it was scorching.
 
I just looked at the Jeep Cherokee to see how the serpentine belt routes. And to see is I can get my hand down there without doing stupid things like removing cooling fans.
All cool. I need to look in the shop manual to see how the tensioner works. Looks like a long bolt as opposed to a spring loaded "cam over" gizmo.

But first I'm going to wait for the battery charger to go to "float". Have you priced batteries lately? The tags are expired and the insurance dropped last year. And will stay that way. We can drive it around here and up the dirt road to the mailboxes.

He gave it to his son, orally, not on paper.. Son has almost zero mech skills. He has no where to park it at his house.
My plan, if I get it running I'll piddle around and clean the interior. It's not bad, just grubby in spots. The we sell it an split the money. Hopefully before the tires go bad.
 
Settling in after our three day drive home...made it without incident. I'm arranging to have everything that broke while we were gone repaired. Fun times...
 
enjoying a nice day. The weather has been perfect. Not to hot and not to cool. Watching life go on.
 
Recovering from spending an actual full day in the office.

So many things happened during the day.

We are on the brink of killing off our land lines at the office. And just getting another cell line that would be portable.

And talking about selling the office building and maybe renting just a simple space or investing the dollars into a reno at the farm to make an office.
 
A string of on-line meetings today...the next one at 3pm which ruined my chance for a nice nap today.

Wrestling with chest pain today from the chronic inflamation in my left ribs. After taking naxoproxen, it hasn't diminished much at all so it is on to T3 and codeine. This will make me likely want to yawn through my 3pm meeting but also will leave me a bit mellowed out.

Beautiful weather again today and not out to enjoy it.
 
rareboy said:
Wrestling with chest pain today from the chronic inflamation in my left ribs. After taking naxoproxen, it hasn't diminished much at all so it is on to T3 and codeine.
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You havecostochondritis RB right?

I get it once in a while now. Have had it since I'm 28. Thought I was gonna drop dead first time I had it. Inflammation and pain when I breath in on my left side. Used to give me anxiety. Hot shower helps me a bit.

I hope you feel better.
 
I share your pain. I had it so acutely last year that it brought me back to when I had Pleurisy when I was 20 and then Pulmonary Embolii in 1992 and 1994.

Post COVID, it has ruined my entire year so far and after a week of calming down, hit me like a sledgehammer in the night. Usually means a storm is on the way.

I hope you don't get it too often now, but when you do, just know that I am there in spirit to give you a big hug and... NO THAT FUCKING HURTS!!
 
Crying at the conclusion of Kon-Tiki yet again. Even though Thor Heyerdahl's theory was wrong, his courage, and the bravery and tenacity of his crew, remain an inspiration to all humanity.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
Crying at the conclusion of Kon-Tiki yet again. Even though Thor Heyerdahl's theory was wrong, his courage, and the bravery and tenacity of his crew, remain an inspiration to all humanity.
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I remember reading Kon-Tiki when I was 12 years old. It was a tome I checked out of the church library when my Mother volunteered there. I think it was in the summer, so I had a lot of time on my hands then. If I recall, Thor Heyerdahl theorized that Polynesians were descended from South American natives who sailed in prehistoric times, and he built his raft and sailed to prove it could have been done. The only problem is that there is no evidence that occurred, apparently. And genetics seem to link Polynesians to the peoples of the islands off East and Southeast Asia, and the Australian aborigines.
 
Araucaria said:
I remember reading Kon-Tiki when I was 12 years old. It was a tome I checked out of the church library when my Mother volunteered there. I think it was in the summer, so I had a lot of time on my hands then. If I recall, Thor Heyerdahl theorized that Polynesians were descended from South American natives who sailed in prehistoric times, and he built his raft and sailed to prove it could have been done. The only problem is that there is no evidence that occurred, apparently. And genetics seem to link Polynesians to the peoples of the islands off East and Southeast Asia, and the Australian aborigines.
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The larger picture is that South Americans apparently did reach the islands, but much later than when they were originally settled. So, there is cultural evidence of South American contact, but the people are descended from Southeast Asian stock.

However, I hold a high regard for anthropology, as it tends to step back and consider larger patterns of humans as a race, not as zoomed in as historians or even sociologists. Margaret Mead and others really do teach us what we and all humans have in common.

Souls like Heyerdahl are less icons of conquest as much as seekers of truth. And as we postulate and guess, we all make the same kinds of errors he made.
 
Heyerdahl was a bit of a PT Barnum when it came to exaggeration and self-promotion. He also reminds me of Edison in some ways. There is absolutely no questioning the greatness, but the veracity isn't as unimpeachable.

Unfortunately, just as with the Conquistadors and the colonialists, Heyerdahl's conceptions were trapped in race theory. For that reason, his role and importance is likely suppressed in academia today.

The abstract here is a good coverage of the theory, the portrayal by Heyerdahl of the resistance he met, and the more likely truth of the conflict: https://archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.5334/bha-612

Labelling him as a "mythologist" as Anderson did is probably a fair moniker. But don't let anyone tell you we don't need mythologists. I'm reminded of the cynical conclusion of Alfred Bester's "Disappearing Act" where all they needed to find was a poet.

I couldn't find any legitimate online verion of Bester's work, but here are a couple of scanned copies if anyone is interested. One of them is literally from the same textbook I read it from in 1977.


 
To me, it always seemed like it would be the reverse...that Polynesians would have set out and ended up in South America.

But only an uneducated gut feeling....
 
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