Ray’s Rainfall Update - Day 57, DY 2 - The Ogham of Dillus
Hold it! Dang!
Later
I am OK. Just had my T-shirt on backwards. Now it is fixed. But that particular T-shirt scared the bejesus out of me. I thought I was choking.
A little rain has set in. So far, the gauge has collected 0.23". But I am not fixing to calculate the update just yet. No. I shall wait a while, in case some more rain winds up in the gauge. Anyway, for sure, the CB now has received over an inch of rain during the course of DY 2, a milestone.
In the good old days, when Heck was a pup, milestones were erected on all the busy byways. Alert travelers who could cipher, kept track of all the milestones they espied as they traveled along. Many of those ancient travelers pulled handcarts laden with all their worldly possessions. Like maybe those ancient travelers had a chest-o-drawers, or chest-er drawers, loaded on the cart containing clean underwear. If the weather was hot, pulling a handcart along would obviously indicate frequent undear changes as a precaution against inner thing chafing events.
I have reached milestone four. Time to change my undears. Yes. My own ancestor, Dillus the Bearded, uttered that very comment on one of his famous journeys. How do I know that? Well, Dillus, left an Ogham stick at the four milestone. My sister, Rayetta, does archaeology as a hobby, and Rayetta actually recovered Dillus’ Ogham stick on a dig in those parts. Now we have that stick in the CB museum. The stick, translated into English, reads, Dillus switched undears here, plus the date. Unfortunately, the date is not entirely legible. Rayetta thinks maybe a beaver gnawed on the date Oghams.
Yet, despite that beaver, we know from a contemporaneous account; Dillus was in those parts at around that time. That contemporaneous account comes from Kai. The very same Kai that my bosom companion, Crumby, slew outright over in the detention basin back in early Polar Bear of DY 1. Recall that Kai’s head talked. Kai’s head told Crumby and me that he saw Dillus stick an Ogham stick in the ground at four milestone. That very night, while Dillus was sleeping off his supper, Kai sneaked up on Dillus and slew Dillus outright. So we know that Ogham stick we have in the museum is the genuine article.
Crumby waited to tell Rayetta about the contemporaneous account until she got home from shopping. That was pretty smart because otherwise, Rayetta would have been really aggravated with Crumby for auctioning off a talking head in the backyard. As it turned out though, Rayetta was so happy with the contemporaneous account, confirming her archaeological evidence, that she completely forgave Crumby.
Later
I am OK. Just had my T-shirt on backwards. Now it is fixed. But that particular T-shirt scared the bejesus out of me. I thought I was choking.
A little rain has set in. So far, the gauge has collected 0.23". But I am not fixing to calculate the update just yet. No. I shall wait a while, in case some more rain winds up in the gauge. Anyway, for sure, the CB now has received over an inch of rain during the course of DY 2, a milestone.
In the good old days, when Heck was a pup, milestones were erected on all the busy byways. Alert travelers who could cipher, kept track of all the milestones they espied as they traveled along. Many of those ancient travelers pulled handcarts laden with all their worldly possessions. Like maybe those ancient travelers had a chest-o-drawers, or chest-er drawers, loaded on the cart containing clean underwear. If the weather was hot, pulling a handcart along would obviously indicate frequent undear changes as a precaution against inner thing chafing events.
I have reached milestone four. Time to change my undears. Yes. My own ancestor, Dillus the Bearded, uttered that very comment on one of his famous journeys. How do I know that? Well, Dillus, left an Ogham stick at the four milestone. My sister, Rayetta, does archaeology as a hobby, and Rayetta actually recovered Dillus’ Ogham stick on a dig in those parts. Now we have that stick in the CB museum. The stick, translated into English, reads, Dillus switched undears here, plus the date. Unfortunately, the date is not entirely legible. Rayetta thinks maybe a beaver gnawed on the date Oghams.
Yet, despite that beaver, we know from a contemporaneous account; Dillus was in those parts at around that time. That contemporaneous account comes from Kai. The very same Kai that my bosom companion, Crumby, slew outright over in the detention basin back in early Polar Bear of DY 1. Recall that Kai’s head talked. Kai’s head told Crumby and me that he saw Dillus stick an Ogham stick in the ground at four milestone. That very night, while Dillus was sleeping off his supper, Kai sneaked up on Dillus and slew Dillus outright. So we know that Ogham stick we have in the museum is the genuine article.
Crumby waited to tell Rayetta about the contemporaneous account until she got home from shopping. That was pretty smart because otherwise, Rayetta would have been really aggravated with Crumby for auctioning off a talking head in the backyard. As it turned out though, Rayetta was so happy with the contemporaneous account, confirming her archaeological evidence, that she completely forgave Crumby.
posted by ray pistrum at Saturday, February 16, 2008
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