Odd find of the day... There's a door not far from my office, opening into another section of the building. Usually it's propped open. One wonders what the fire regulations have to say about that, but that's another story. Today it was closed.

Behind the door, sitting on the floor, I found today a square-foot sized tile of copper, or perhaps bronze, made into the form of a Mayan-style bas-relief warrior, complete with head-dress. And teeth. Big round ones.

I have no idea what it's doing there. Perhaps somebody's going to put it up on the wall? If so, why? Is it some kind of mesoamerican sky god? The rest of the stuff on the walls in that general area is astronomically themed (map of the galaxy in carbon monoxide, for example).

So far, things (and critters) seem to be working as expected. It seems toxicfur and I are well-matched in more than one way; dozens, certainly. In particular, there's a tendency to fix stuff far enough that, when you're the one who fixed it, is easy enough to use, if rather involved. Good enough for now is good enough for now. Except when somebody else is trying to figure out how to fly the damn thing.

I'm listening in the car to an audiobook version of the first of the Discworld series. Quite the hoot, actually. Though I think, for my (zero) money, it would have been slightly better to have the chapters demarcated a bit more distinctly (like "Chapter six. In which the luggage saves our hero" or something). Anyway, lots of fun; and it's doubtful I'd ever get around to reading such a thing on my own. As it happens, the carpool's mostly nonfunctional this week, so I have lots of time in the car to listen.

Cell phones are wonderful, when people are far apart. Cost the same as local, which is cool. The whole long-distance charge thing was a clever marketing hoax perpetrated on the people by AT&T.

The Equinox is about now, give or take. It's SPRING!