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Went climbing with Brandt, Silver, Dilph, and Usekh yesterday. I haven't climbed for a few weeks, so it was good to get back into it, although my right arm/shoulder is giving me some trouble. Finally got around to completing the one that I almost finished blindfolded early on; I remember being utterly exhausted that time, but this time it was much easier. I suspect most of that is that being able to see the handholds makes things a lot faster, and the longer I hang on the more tired I get.
While we climbed, Rey made the acquaintance of the Queen Vic Markets, and we all went for a picnic afterwards. Mmm mmm mmm. Good bread, good stuff to have on bread, and scrumptious cherries afterwards.
Then to the Pompeii exhibition at the museum. A bit crowded and rushed (we got there about an hour and a half before closing time on the second day), but still fascinating stuff. I was impressed with how advanced the Romans were in some ways, both in their technology and in their art - it's one thing to know that intellectually but quite another to be staring at chunks of Roman plumbing that wouldn't look out of place in some 21st-century rentals.
The exhibition had a room of body casts, which were strangely moving. Or perhaps not that strange; the flesh might be gone, but in shape and in history they were the dead bodies of real people, poor things. And animals; I'd heard the story of this dog before, but I don't think I'd ever seen it, and it's hard not to react to something like that.
Today, time to clean up the garden a bit, mow the lawn, and clean the bathroom... let's see how far I get with that.
While we climbed, Rey made the acquaintance of the Queen Vic Markets, and we all went for a picnic afterwards. Mmm mmm mmm. Good bread, good stuff to have on bread, and scrumptious cherries afterwards.
Then to the Pompeii exhibition at the museum. A bit crowded and rushed (we got there about an hour and a half before closing time on the second day), but still fascinating stuff. I was impressed with how advanced the Romans were in some ways, both in their technology and in their art - it's one thing to know that intellectually but quite another to be staring at chunks of Roman plumbing that wouldn't look out of place in some 21st-century rentals.
The exhibition had a room of body casts, which were strangely moving. Or perhaps not that strange; the flesh might be gone, but in shape and in history they were the dead bodies of real people, poor things. And animals; I'd heard the story of this dog before, but I don't think I'd ever seen it, and it's hard not to react to something like that.
Today, time to clean up the garden a bit, mow the lawn, and clean the bathroom... let's see how far I get with that.
