
So as to rinse that slightly unpleasant taste out of my mouth, here’s the cheerful news of the day!
I got a lot of things done including
- Company tax return
- Monthly invoice
- Laundry
- Gave my bike a good wash (somewhat to the detriment of the bath) and thoroughly degreased and lubed the chain
- Installed some new speaker cables which necessitated burrowing so deeply into the nest of wires and fluff behind my desk that it basically counts as archaeology
So hurrah for me!
Also when I was hunting on Amazon for People of the Serpent, E.H. Thompson’s classic 1930s tale of exploring and excavating the Maya cities in Yucatán, including Chich’en Itza, which always sounds like some kind of fowl pest, I did not find it but Amazon suggested these very acceptable substitutes:
- Spotlight-mode Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Signal Processing Approach by Charles V. Jakowatz, Daniel E. Wahl, Paul H. Eichel, and Dennis C. Ghiglia
- Quincy, Seasons 1 and 2 DVDs
- Laser Weapons Technology III by William E. Thompson and Paul H. Merritt
- Trentepohliales: Cephaleuros, Phycopeltis, Stomatochroon - Morphology, Taxonomy, and Ecology by Rufus H. Thompson and Daniel E. Wujek
- Development of Long Rigid Bars for Roof Support Along the Coal Face by H R Thompson and E M Loxley
- Skelton Village: The Continuing Community by H E C Stapleton and Michael James A Thompson
So there is a rich seam of intrest there for when I get bored with amazing temples and pyramids ekcetera. I’ve been meaning to get some of these books anyway as I am fed up with always feeling embarrassed and left out at parties when the conversation turns to synthetic aperture radar.