Then, NAPS. For everyone.

Naps are teh sexy.

Best of luck with naps today, Cashmere.

When I was looking at a online tour of an old Chinese house--one that had been dismantled, shipped to the states and reassembled in a museum--one of the (100 year old?) photos showed an ancient Chinese exersaucer. It was a wood, cone-shaped barrel with a kid sticking out of it (there was a step inside for the kid to stand on) and it had a toy. This was used pretty much like the modern version to keep tots out of fires and away from other household dangers. I thought it was amazing because I often wonder how parents managed before modern conveniences.

This is in Salem! At the Peabody Essex Museum! The China House! Or more formally (and correctly) the Yin Yu Tang House!

In conclusion, everyone should come to Salem to see the China house, and then have beers with me.

and then have beers with me.

San Francisco misses you Nora. The foghorns said so this morning.

We had to come home when the streetlights came on.

'Cause that's when the monsters come out.

This is in Salem! At the Peabody Essex Museum! The China House! Or more formally (and correctly) the Yin Yu Tang House!

That looks interesting. TCG and I keep talking about meeting you in Salem for dinner and beer one night, but things keep popping up. We must plan something soon.

Although, if I recall from that expedition to find them, it seems they took a more difficult route and probably didn't make it.

From what I'm remembering of Simonson's talk, he believes it is possible that Mallory and Irvine did reach the summit - having made the capital mistake of leaving lanterns and torches behind in their tent, and then compounded that error by pushing on to the summit at a time of day when there would not have been enough light left for them to make it there and back to camp safely. Simonson's expedition found Mallory's goggles in his pocket, bent as though they had been in the pocket during a fall; as another member of Mallory's expedition had suffered debilitating snow-blindness, Simonson believes Mallory would remove his goggles only in low light conditions. Further, the condition of Mallory's body shows injuries consistent with a fall of only a few hundred feet, so it's not likely that they fell from higher up the mountain, but either not long after they were last seen, or on a return trip. If they chose not to climb to the summit they would have had plenty of time to make it back to their camp in daylight. One of the reasons Simonson wanted to return in 2001 was to search for the camera that Mallory and Irvine had - likely as it is that they would have taken photos at the highest point they reached. Kodak has assured him that the film used in that model would survive indefinitely if kept in refrigeration (and not otherwise damaged): Simonson had a wry grin on on his face when he said, "That's not a problem."

I followed that link to the Chinese house a few months ago, thanks to someone posting it here. Very cool. I would totally go to Salem to see it in person and have beers with Nora.

'Cause that's when the monsters come out.

"I don't know...the name of the wino...who walked out of the alley and onto the 9th street bridge, but he was wrong. Just purely wrong."

Ran up my back, danced on my head for a while and then ran down my front.

Yeah, a tall skinny kid with a little kid on top of him, beating him with a stick and yelling, "Faster, faster, you fool, you fool!"