Tell me I’m not the only one who lands in this boat every blinking time I/they turn around.
I had every intention of being prepared. I like to write my TDP post on Sunday, edit it a bit on Monday, and go through it once more quickly Tuesday before I post it. Alas, that didn’t happen this week. I blame the shingles vaccine.
Don’t get me wrong–I’m very glad to have the shingles vaccine! I’ve heard shingles itself is horrible. But I hadn’t planned to get the vaccine on Sunday, and then I did, and I hadn’t planned for it to knock me on my butt, since vaccines rarely slow me down–but this one did. I started dragging Sunday afternoon, and by Monday morning I could barely get out of bed. I told my boss if the zombies had come that day, I would have blended in just fine.
So anyway. Not prepared. I didn’t prep my food for the week either, or get water and now I have to go tonight and it’s storming, and…
Anyway. Speaking of boats, I’ve been watching Drain the Oceans on National Geographic. It’s more fascinating than I expected, though I’m not sure why I’m surprised–it has shipwrecks, secrets, archeology, and history. What wouldn’t I love about that?
Last night’s episode (watched twice because I fell asleep watching it the first time, see above re: vaccine) was especially good, as they were searching for slave ships and other wrecks that illustrated that dark time of American history. I want to give them a shout out for talking to Black historians, and descendants of those held captive on the ships they were looking for–and not for one instant in all the exposition, no matter who they were talking with or about, did they try to gloss over the horror of what was done to Black people in order to make some white people rich.
Mix that with some really cool stuff about how the Romans built a port on basically a beach, and how the Viking shipbuilding was so far ahead of most cultures around them, and oh, toss in a vanished Egyptian city…I’m really enjoying the show.
(Particularly enjoyed how in the first tests of what an atomic bomb would do to a ship at sea, they missed the bright orange anchored ship they were supposed to hit by half a mile.)
Oh, and this one? This one is wow. Not so much the technology (which is still very impressive!) but what those people did, to save children…