The Internet

I have pretty nearly obliterated an entire day by being online.

I don't even remember where I started. I've played Bubblez; read
about the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England; checked out a
bunch of bugs on whatsthatbug.com and bugguide.net; learned of and
researched Lundy Island and Flat Holm; found out that Naples has a
cemetary with 365 pits which are opened once per day to receive a pile
of dead bodies, which are mostly decomposed when each pit is opened a
year later; that some cemetaries feature brick-lined graves that cause
decomposition to happen far more slowly; people who deal with dead
bodies typically have very few illnesses (!); there's something called
Chilblain; infections were called "corruptions" in the early 19th
century; the Pound is currently equal to 1.66 American Dollars; God
only knows what else I stumbled across today in all my click-happy
time-wasting.

But you know what? This has been one of the best, most relaxing days
I've had in quite a while... other than sitting atop Mount Battie in
the mist, that is.

~nv