An amazing discovery

A team of archaeologists was excavating in Israel when they came upon a cave. Written across the wall of the cave were the following symbols:



It was considered a unique find and the writings were said to be at least three thousand years old! The piece of stone was removed, brought to the museum, and archaeologists from around the world came to study the ancient symbols. They held a huge meeting after months of conferences to discuss the meaning of the markings.


Expert Analysis

The President of the society pointed at the first drawing and said: "This looks like a woman. We can judge that it was family oriented and held women in high esteem.




You can also tell they were intelligent, as the next symbol resembles a donkey, so, they were smart enough to have animals help them till the soil.




The next drawing looks like a shovel of some sort, which means they even had tools to help them.




Even further proof of their high intelligence is the fish which means that if a famine had hit the earth, whereby the food didn't grow, they would take to the sea for food.




The last symbol appears to be the Star of David which means they were evidently Hebrews."




Conclusions



The audience applauded enthusiastically, but a little old man stood up in the back of the room and said, "Idiots, Hebrew is read from right to left. It says: Holy Mackerel, Dig The Ass On That Woman!"

My week has been somewhat hectic. The leg is still somewhat sore, but I'm walking on it now. Actually, I started walking without crutches on Monday, but by Thursday, I realized that my confidence had been misplaced - and I was aggrevating the injury by putting so much pressure on my bad foot. Beginning Thursday, I started to take more care, and that seems to be paying off.

Friday, my wife joined me for the weekend. We celebrated my sister's birthday with her, and we got the chance to see a movie together. As usual, the weekend has flown by too quickly. She'll be heading back home in a few hours.

Now that I'm starting to feel normal again, I'll be posting more regularly.

New entry in Comic Relief

My sister's been at it again. Here's the latest entry in the Comic Relief column.

I haven't been posting much lately. Monday morning (last Monday), I awoke with incredible pains in my leg. I could only manage a couple of hours at the office before I had to leave. After a full day's rest, I made it to work on Tuesday. But, whatever the problem was, Tuesday's strain made it worse. By Wednesday, I was in the hospital. And I've spent the last five days trying to recuperate from a badly sprained ankle. This past weekend, I had hoped the time off my feet would help the situation. It did, but only marginally. Luckily, by this morning, I was feeling able to put some weight on the foot for the first time in a week.

Now, it's evening, and the foot is tired and strained again. I can hardly put weight on it, and I hope it's feeling better by morning.

There's some good in being confined to a bed for the better part of the week. I've lost 11 pounds!

Medieval Times

I had lots of fun New Year's Eve. The pictures from Medieval Times were interesting, as I tried to take lots of indoor pictures without a flash. Of all the pictures I took that night, this one strikes me as one of the most interesting.



I have other shots that are in better focus, but I really like this one!

Did I mention I'm a GrandUncle

The reviews are in. My grandnephew is a sweetie-pie, and I really don't care if I look like a doting granduncle.



Of all the pictures I got, this is truly the best!

I got mail!

No, not spam... real mail... with lots of pictures attached! I certainly wasn't expecting that my wife, immediately upon her return home, would take the time to download all the pictures from the camera, photoshop them, and email them back to me so quickly! Boy, was I surprised!

I guess my biggest surprise was when I noticed that the first of TEN emails was sent not just to me, but other family members. There were 17 photo attachments in that email (over 3MB in size), and all the other recipients of the email have dial-up accounts. I was a bit less concerned when I realized that was the ONLY ONE that was sent to dial-up users. The remaining emails contained a total of 52 additional photographs.

Needless to say, I won't be able to post many of these pictures, because my ISP's storage limit has been reached. Maybe I can get my wife to photoshop a collage of the best shots and send that to me as a single picture... or I could download some sort of freeware editor and do it myself. If I did that, I'd try to find room for that one good picture.

Dragons everywhere

Happy New Year! I can't begin to tell you what a blast my wife and I had last night at Medieval Times. Their show has evolved significantly since our last visit well over a decade ago. And I was overjoyed when I learned that cameras ARE allowed! My only regret was that I didn't purchase the larger capacity memory card that I had considered getting for Christmas. Had I done that, I wouldn't have had to sit there trying to decide which of the 70+ pictures needed to be deleted from the camera so I could continue to take more pictures.

We got some really good shots, and quite a few blurry ones (you try using a digital camera indoors, in a dark stadium, without a flash - flashes don't do much good beyond 15 feet or so). Still, the pictures captured the spirit of the evening. All guests entering the castle were dressed in a cape with coat of arms, and photographed while posing with one of the Pages. I tried to put on a "menacing" look (as in "don't mess with me"), but my wife says it looked more like I was depressed and wished I was somewhere else.

The food was excellent (they even accommodated some of my "special dietary requirements") and the atmosphere was lively. This being a special New Year's Eve presentation, there was a live band (regrettably not a collection of 11th century minstrels - rather a 6-person rock band). We chose to leave soon after the clock struck 12, so as to avoid much of the traffic of party revellers, but it was such an exciting evening...

As a memento of the evening, my wife decided to purchase a ceramic dragon from the gift shop. There were several other things we would have liked to purchase, but settled for PHOTOGRAPHS of those items instead.

I hope all of you had a similarly entertaining New Year's Eve, and that your new year will bring happiness