Oh, man, that's terrible.

gd football.

Now I need to know if indeed the beeping continued all night....

How are you feeling this morning, Theo? I hope the general soreness from the fall has lessened.

Nothing like heading into the office at 6 am unwashed with plane funk after a long day of powertools and unpacking. Only ran into security and facility dudes. But I have my laptop, have vpn, am working from home and waiting for the plumber. And I have to use the bathroom but am going to wait until my gracious neighbor goes to work.

I don't wanna.

Also, arriving at BWI is getting worse and worse. Landed on time, no gates. Wait 40 minutes on tarmac for gate. Then another 45 minutes to get baggage. It is ridiculous.

Toe achey, awaiting podiatrist office to open. I'm finding that remembering my yoga 'stand foursquare' on the foot (so that no weight is on the toes) is helping the most. As is elevating and icing every once in a while.

The bruising is even more spectacular this morning.

Woo, slightly hung over after delicious birthday dinner at a long-time favorite New York restaurant.... NYCistas, I was going to stay here longer to see more people, but decided I need more home time. Soon, off to the train.

Glad you had fun, Jesse.

I'm about to throw my work laptop out the window. Damned application I'm using basically crashes after every two refreshes- and it is a process-tracker, so it needs to refresh! It's making something that should take 20 minutes take...well, we're working into the second hour now. Uhg.

And I'm having to type around needy cats. Which I've realized- they are as aggressively in need of my attention normally as my brother's evil cat is when she went into heat, minus the disturbing yowls and er, mating behavior.

BBC News - Unlocking the scrolls of Herculaneum

They've found a library in Herculaneum, which is near Mount Vesuvius and was buried (along with Pompeii) when Vesuvius erupted.

Piso's grand villa, which has come to be known as the Villa of the Papyri, also contains the only library to have survived from the classical world. It is a relatively small collection, some 2,000 scrolls, which the eruption nearly destroyed and yet preserved at the same time.

The scrolls were almost impossible to read and many were destroyed in the attempt. But Science has come to the rescue and they can be read now.

Despite being found in Italy, most of the recovered material is in Greek. Perhaps the major discovery is a third of On Nature, a previously lost work by the philosopher Epicurus.

But many of the texts that have emerged so far are written by a follower of Epicurus, the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c.110-c.40/35BC). In fact, so many of his works are present, and in duplicate copies, that David Sider, a classics professor at New York University, believes that what has been found so far was in fact Philodemus's own working library. Piso was Philodemus's patron.

That's pretty amazing.