I’m pretty much a jet-lagged wreck right now, having not gone to bed since arriving in Chicago at 1 a.m. after a two-day attempt to get here from Delhi. But all is well: the stone Ganesha that I was given by the Institute of Life Sciences in Bhubaneswar survived in one piece (it has my name, the date, and the occasion of my visit engraved on the back!), as did the two jars of Indian honey given me by three nice godless people whom I met for coffee in Bangalore. Now I will try to get back on track. Substance will be thin for a day or two.
Stephen Knight, aka Godless Spellchecker, sent a photo with the note, “I’m currently in Rome taking in the sights. A few cats live in the Colosseum. Managed to snap one. Can you find it?”
Can you? (Click to enlarge.)
pretty sure we already did but the kitty is on the cross-over stone with the sun in his face. Cats like the sun.
Do I spot a second tail on that stone?
second that. Are we ever going to get the facts on the coiled serpent in the swamp?
Yes, nice and g*dless go together!!
Found it. What helped was to ask myself: What would Kitty do (WWKD)?
Is this picture taken from beneath the Colosseum? This would be where animals and special effects scenery would pop up.
It appears that this child of Bastet is a devotee of Sol Invictus.
Very, very nice = = Bastet and Sol.
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ps Kitty = Ceiling Cat of the Wooden Beam – Rafters … … lazing there inside its sunshine upon that bridging concretion, not ?
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Atop the capstone next to the glaring light flowing through a gap in the ceiling. Ya?
As a long-time cat owner, I knew what to do: look high and look warm.
Yes! On the left side of the ledge under the boards.
Yes, on top of the ‘keystone’ of the three-piece stone lintel in the centre.
(How the heck does that work? The lintel I mean. That keystone must exert enormous thrust outwards on the walls. Ditto the similar keystones beyond. I don’t like it one bit.)
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Pretty much irrelevant now, having had a 36-hour stint of my own (party ; fuelled by bullshit, fatty foods and alcohol ; and an hour or so at 25 hours) recently, my two cents is to try to do the “long change” (awake on one schedule; travel & confusion ; zombie mode ; maintain zombie mode until “bed time in your new locale) ; at 22:00 to 24:00 local it’s time to crawl into the pit. If you have an accommodating pussy to take to bed with you, all the better.
The corresponding “short change” implies turning one “long” wake period into three periods of wake, sleep, wake. It can be done, but most people I know go the long way around.