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Al's room is almost cleared out and ready. A few minor things to move out and installation of a new light-blocking Venetian blind on the larger of the two windows and that's that until she gets here. Plan on getting that done tomorrow. I'm heading down to Bristol on Thursday to help her finish packing up (and geekchick, I won't be taking the detour your way - I'll have to find another excuse sometime ;-)) and Toni will follow on Friday. We're coming back up to Indy on Saturday.

Had a very annoying headache most of today, but it finally has subsided. Went out for lunch and then we did grocery shopping at Mejier, and I just got done moving a bunch of stuff from the closet in Al's room down to the basement. Found my degrees in a box, and the macro bellows for my 35mm. Definitely have to put that to use again. I have some great pictures of a single bee and of Toni's engagement ring.

Probably going to vegetate for the rest of today.

Map Geek Idea

Sitting here watching the 1968 Peter O'Toole/Katherine Hepburn version of The Lion in Winter, I found myself, as I often do when watching or reading historical fiction and dramatizations, wondering about the specific boundaries of territory held by England and by France at the time the story is set. I have a couple of historical atlases, particularly on Britain, and could go look up approximations, but I had an idea. What I really want is a (probably CD-ROM based) history atlas that I can enter a date (at least to the year) and get boundaries and such. I think that would be cool. :-)