It has been a good weekend.

[stellar_muddle]

It has been a good weekend in which there was much done as well as getting a good sleep in on both days.

Fri night: No gaming so blob blob blob and blob. Women's long jump.

Sat: Slept in and then completely rearranged the lounge and dining room. In all 5 book cases were partially empties and shifted around (2 across the room and 3 into the lounge). Now there is much sprawlling beside the books with a beanbag. Though you will need to roll fast if there is an earthquake. Then we shifted a desk up and set it up in the dining room where 2 of the book cases were. Yay to work space in a warm area where you will use it. Then there was grocery shopping, dinner and them many people turned up for Z's birthday drinkies. There was much talking and snacking and it was all good. Everyone had disappeared by round 1:30pm. So then we were strange and stayed up to watch the high jump and Z watched the rest of the Krakatoa doco and exclaimed lots while I snoozed. 3am I think.

Sun: Slept in (I wonder why...). Mattress shopping: found a good one on special. To be delivered on Tues. Lamp shopping and desk lamps were two for the price of 1 at the Warehouse. Yay to that. Home and got started on painting up the picture stone wall hanging for DA. On the desk in the warm room with the nice bright light. And with brief interuptions for Dr Who, that sums up the evening.

Time to head off to bed before it is not too hideously late.

Comments

[slothphil.livejournal.com]

Was he exclaiming because it was cool or because it was wrong?

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

There were a couple of bits of stuff that the doco brought up that I had either forgotten, or was previously unaware of. I did read the big monograph on the eruption, oooh, something like fifteen or sixteen years ago, but they've got new evidence on the massive levels of pyroclastic flow debris around Krakatau on the seabed, and the first time I read the monograph, I didn't notice the bit about there having been some 2000 deaths from hot pyroclastic flows hitting the mainland 40 km away, having traveled that distance _over water_ at about 150kph. Of course, when the original monograph was written, the concept of the pyroclastic flow was yet to be coherently elucidated.

[slothphil.livejournal.com]

I have Simon Winchester's book on it. Interesting reading. Would like to see a good doco on it.