Sometime in the wee hours, it stopped. To my immense relief. I'd gotten to sleep, disturbed though.
Should still be, just barely, under warranty. Either way, must be fixed. Some information gleaned from D's research is it might be a fan starting to go bad.
Not feeling up to much today. Stayed a little late at work, as I was still cleaning up my room when the other two finished up as well. This is what we do, pitch in and get it all done. For all it can be a frustrating job, we do help each other without being asked. Getting new people on board with this takes some time.
Trimmed down the blown parsley, topped the lemon balm flowers. Probably should have done it long ago, but the bees and wasps, damsel flies and moths, seemed to enjoy them so much.
Not looking pretty out there. Not tidy, even. Better than last year at this point.
Thinking the back along the garages, should be a place for clumping bamboo. It is supposed to do fairly well here, especially if there is shade. Don't think anything else is going to do well there, not even lettuce, nor spinach.
Reading Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson. War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. WWI is an event I have never studied, never had a class about. Black Adder is probably the most I've really looked into the subject. Knew it was a mess, debacle, atrocity, killer of kings and countries, only in the most general terms. This book sparks my interest. D got a copy of Fall of Eagles from the library, which we've watched. Disappointing there is nearly no mention of the Ottoman Empire, since that carcass motivated The Great Loot.
About 3/5ths of the way through, and I just want to understand more. Keep thinking of the covert wrangling over Syria a century ago, and how those abuses and injustices continue to reverberate today. Crusades, Ottomans, tribalism, oil, corporations, people don't stand a chance. Not to mention literal religions that can justify mass murder with words. No, I don't just mean Islam, but any powerful religion, any emotional, irrational persuasion. Can't say I like Christianity any better, at least of the smug and obedience demanding varieties. Any system that demands people abandon their brains for the sake of eventual comfort after death, not respectable.
As for T. E., a nutjob, certainly. Largely a product of his culture and family, of his time, but cursed with a subtle brain and a conman's heart. I love that he's still considered a hero in his own country, says something lovely & odd about the British character.
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Good luck with the bamboos; lots of food, lots of water to get them started.
And T.E.Lawrence, NOT a nut-job. I followed his footsteps (well, some of them) during my time in S.A. He was brave and inspirational. Yes, of course he is venerated here, and you can still hear his motorbike rounding that fatal corner at Clouds Hills.
RR,
Driven to be a nutjob, and an oddball certainly. Eccentric by a wide reach. I think you'd love this book.
Beware Bamboo- like Mint it will take over unless contained...and it is bigger!!
On TEL, I agree with "Relatively Retiring" - totally. To even try to understand a little of the man you need to read his two books, "The Mint" and "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". The latter is one of the literary classics of the 20th Century.
On the 50th anniversary of his motorcycle accident I rode on my motorcycle the road he took on that day , leaving my wreath at the crash site. In fact I might just do a blog post about it sometime!
Seven Pillars is one of my treasured books, alas not because I enjoyed reading it so much, I got barely half-way many years ago, but because it is a very old copy and one of the very few things of my dad's I have that he cared about.
He figures quite large in Robert Graves' 'Goodbye to all that', which I do remember as an interesting (and not over-long) read.
Of course the film rather overshadowed the book too.
Not exactly a documentary, but have you seen the movie, "Lawrence of Arabia"?
Surely most heroes and villains are "nutjobs"--that is, their noggins are wired a bit unusually.
Fresca,
Oh, yeah, seen the film. Not much to do with history, but impressive. And the point of heroes and villains being wired weird is apt. Extreme sports enthusiasts are not entirely sane, hence the word "extreme." I'm perfectly willing to accede that T.E.L. was driven mad by his childhood, and the insanity of the war he put himself in the middle of, and probably PTSD after. He was extreme.
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